Aside from, you know, my team being booted from last season’s playoffs by Montreal in the first round (and yes, it still really, really hurts) the NHL off-season does provide me with a great bit of relief. Not as much relief as a hockey wife might get, but enough to give my poor brain a […]
First of all, I just want to say that I never got around to actually submitting this to the Scarlet Caps “How I Became a Caps Fan” contest. However, after seeing the winning blog, I am compelled to post it now. I mean no offense to the blog writer–any hockey fan is a friend of […]
Let me tell you a story. I was living in Toronto between 2001 and 2003, 2002 being the year that Toronto came thisclose to playing in the Stanley Cup final. After the Eastern Conference semis, Toronto was the only Canadian team was left and it was a big deal. Toronto began their Eastern Conference finals […]
I was at a gathering last August and, not knowing many people, I stood alone in the kitchen waiting for a conversation to jump into. After a while, two older guys started talking about the Flyers so I had to ask what they thought about the Chris Pronger trade which went down a couple months […]
NHL.com is offering a free preview of GameCenter Live on January 26, 2010. That’s today! Check it out, it’s worth it. Sorry, you missed it! I got the chance to play around with NHL’s GameCenter Live over the last week and I have to admit that it’s quite impressive. GameCenter Live expands on the NHL.com […]
Upon recommendation last season, I read Ross Bernstein’s book The Code: The Unwritten Rules of Fighting and Retaliation in the NHL. Overall, it was an okay book. At times, Bernstein seems as if he is the first person to dare write about this. The Code, he says, is “a very taboo subject shrouded in mystery.” […]
First order of business: Sorry it’s been so long between blogs. This is HARD! The thing with hockey is that with 50+ games a week, by the time I get something written out, it’s already been covered by the zillions of other hockey blogs out there. And sure, I could write a different opinion but […]