If you happen to find yourself waking up frantically in the middle of the night and hitting the sporting website of your choice to check on the status of the NHL lockout, unfortunately it looks as grim as ever these days. I'm way over in Australia so it wouldn't really matter for me because I wouldn't see hockey regardless, but I've noticed a few instances of the poor folks back home having a tough time coping....

Then you've got Dave Frost, as reported in the previous Kerrzy Report there, who has used his free time to yell and scream at CJHL officials and get himself banned from junior leagues. Where'll he find his next boyf...I mean client? Other guys have got the right idea though, as lots of NHLers have gone to European leagues to play some puck, much to the dismay of ex-Vancouver Canuck 'tender Corey Hirsch. Once a lot of these fellas realized that they could make over a million bucks of dirty black market money playing in Russia though, a lot of guys have jumped leagues making the Russian league sort of like the NHL equivalent of "NFL Europe". AK Bars Kazan has pretty much made up for the lack of an NHL all-star game this year by throwing together a team that includes the likes of Brad Richards, Vinny Lecavalier, Nikolai Khabibulin, Alexei Kovalev, Ilya Kovalchuk, Darius Kasparius among others.....more