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 […]
The Olympic break is here, and not a moment too soon, both for busted up hockey players and myself, a busted up hockey fan. There are 1230 hockey games a year, NOT including playoffs. That’s a lot of hockey. Here are some things you might have missed if you were buried under 4 feet of […]
Perhaps you’ve heard: the Caps had their recording-breaking win streak snapped last night in Montreal. I’m not as upset as many people because 14 games? Tied for 3rd in the history of NHL winning streaks? I can’t even be upset because I’m too busy still being psyched. But the victory, in my mind, isn’t the […]
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 […]
While it’s not unheard of for teams to trade their captains, it’s still pretty awkward to do so. In the past NHL season, the San Jose Sharks stripped Patrick Marleau of his captaincy in favor of Rob Blake and now the Washington Capitals have suddenly traded their team captain of 3 years, Chris Clark, to […]
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 […]
One subject being heavily debated within the hockey community is that of head shots and the increase in both frequency and severity. Nobody wants to see a player injured, especially when that injury is a concussion sustained after a brutal hit which left the player knocked out cold on the ice. To me, however, it’s […]
Last night was the Washington Capitals first game, out of an unknown string of games, without Alex Ovechkin. Without their highest scorer, and facing Marty Brodeur, putting the puck in the back of the net was bound to be a challenge. As many sports analysts were saying and writing before the game, defense would be […]
I live in Baltimore, Maryland, about an hour north of Washington, DC. Baltimore hasn’t had a hockey team since our AHL team, the Baltimore Skipjacks, left for Portland in 1993. I was 14 years old. I’ve always loved sports and was drawn to ice hockey in my early teens because of the speed and physical […]