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Fred MacDonalds Fiddler's Facts column appears each Saturday in The Guardian. He welcomes all comments and suggestions.

All articles of Fred MacDonald

• Fiddler's Facts: Richards could save Sather's neck...
  The Stanley Cup playoffs are almost halfway completed and so far New York Rangers general manager Glen Sather has been sweating it out. The ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Gallant, Sea Dogs hunt for Memorial...
  Gerard Gallant, one of the most popular hockey figures ever to emerge from this little Island, leads his Saint John Sea Dogs into the Quebec ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Playoff officiating at an all-time low
  The Stanley Cup playoffs are in full swing and aside from the upsets, the officiating, or lack thereof, continues to be the main topic at the ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Nothing wrong with tough, physical...
  It’s been a hectic past week here on the Island and the hot topics at the local watering holes ranged from the Stanley Cup playoffs to the Sidney ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Blue Jays are for real
  Heading into a weekend at home against Baltimore Orioles, the Toronto Blue Jays sit at 4-2 on the season and have won their first two series with ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Road to Stanley Cup wide open this...
  The National Hockey League playoffs open next week and heading into the final weekend of the regular season, most of the playoff matchups have ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Leafs must fire Burke
  The Air Canada Centre, home of the Toronto Maple Leafs, has been as quiet as a tomb for most of the last half of the season but that scene has ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Richards heats up as Rangers bounce...
  Despite Thursday’s 5-2 loss to Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers’ hockey fans are a lot more relieved these days as Brad Richards, ...
• Fiddler's Facts - Thunder, Islanders renew rivalry...
  Archrivals Cornwall Thunder and the Charlottetown Islanders meet tonight at 8 in Game 5 of their best-of-seven P.E.I. major midget hockey ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Dumping Burke and Wilson best move...
  It’s coming up to four years since Big Bombastic Bull Brian Burke arrived in Toronto to build the Toronto Maple Leafs into a Stanley Cup ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Plan’s out to lunch
  If you’ve been following the Ontario political scene and the harness racing situation there, and if you happened to read professor Peter ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Nash-watch begins
  The National Hockey League trade deadline is two weeks away and already rumours abound that big stars could be on the move. Rick Nash, the ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Don Cherry always gets it right
  The curtain comes down tonight on what has been a terrific hockey week on P.E.I., thanks to Scotiabank, the CBC and a huge cast of ...
• Pats favourites in Super Bowl poll, ‘Prophet’...
  There’s nothing like a New York-Boston rivalry to get the blood boiling, whether it’s the baseball New York Yankees and hated enemy the ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Men's hockey Panthers hope to cut...
  The UPEI men’s hockey Panthers, which beat nationally-ranked UNB on three occasions this season, entertain first-place Acadia Axemen this ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Giants, Patriots on Super Bowl...
  The New York Giants travel to San Francisco to meet the 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens visit Foxboro to battle the New England Patriots in ...
• No Fiddler's Facts
  Fiddler's Facts will not be published in Saturday's Guardian nor available online. Fred MacDonald's weekly column returns next week.
• Fiddler's Facts: Gormley’s stock soars at junior...
  Brandon Gormley’s play at the world junior hockey championship in Calgary this past week confirmed what I had believed all along, that he’s ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Tuning out the worlds
  I don’t know about you but for this writer the ongoing world junior hockey tournament has lost some of its lustre. In fact if Prince Edward ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Broncos quarterback best thing to...
  The National Football League heads into its second last weekend and even at this date, teams at 6-8 and 7-7 are still alive. Like most NFL ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Island sports community rocked by...
  It is a sports story that Islanders will remember as long as they live, especially so for the families of young baseball stars Tanner Craswell ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Trade for closer should make Blue...
  Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos improved the fortunes of the Canadian Major League Baseball club this past week with the signing of ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Will Maple Leafs, Canadiens,...
  The National Hockey League schedule is just past the quarter-mark and, historically, since more than 75 per cent of the teams playoff ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Surprising Panther team to get test...
  No, it’s not a misprint. The UPEI Panthers men’s basketball team is unbeaten in the tough Atlantic University Sport conference with a 4-0 ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Win by Hurricanes would be enormous...
  The Holland College Hurricanes football club entertains the University of New Brunswick today at 1 p.m. at MacAdam Field on the UPEI campus in ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Hurricanes tackle Tigers in college
  The Holland College Hurricanes entertain the Dalhousie Tigers today at 1 p.m. at MacAdam Field on the UPEI campus in the most ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Leaf fans enjoy view from top
  There are more fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs in this province than of any other team, and it seems that everywhere one goes in the province ...
• Fiddler's Facts: UPEI campus will be buzzing
  The Holland College football Hurricanes entertain the UNB Red Bombers today at 1 p.m. at MacAdam Field on the UPEI campus in the final Atlantic ...
• Fiddler's Facts: No-name pitching makes World Series...
  The Texas Rangers have what appears to be the stronger lineup and the better starting pitchers but the St. Louis Cardinals are “hitting them ...
• Fiddler's Facts: Panthers, Rocket on weekend hockey...
  The UPEI Panthers and the P.E.I. Rocket are both home this weekend, each concluding a two-game homestand with games today and Sunday. The ...