Maybe I’m just not looking in the right places, but I can’t seem to locate a recent edition of “Carnival of the NHL”. The last one I can find is No. 21, courtesy of Eric at Off Wing — and that was all the way back in April 2006.

This group theme was always an irregularly-scheduled event among sports/hockey bloggers, but someone always seemed to step up every two months or so to organize and host it. The faithful even kept it going through the 2004-05 lockout season, when it presumably would have every excuse for dying off.

I could email around, but I’ll take this as an opportunity to smoke out any regular hockey-oriented visitors to this space. If anyone has the lowdown, please share.

Oh, the reason for my curiosity: I’ve been amassing quite a few NHL/hockey news and notes over the past couple of months, and basically am looking for an external motivation to write about them. Plus, a couple of the pucks posts I have committed to this blog lately — like this one about the Devils and their “1940″ seating capacity — seem to be strong candidates for Carnival contributions. Selfish, I know. But if it leads to a Carnival revival, that’ll justify me.