Tag Archives: Hockey
Stopping The Puck
Maybe it was the subject matter. Maybe they wanted too much money. Maybe they don’t want to celebrate the past. For whatever reason, it was absence that struck me most about Goalie, the Terry Sawchuk biopic I watched on a flight this week. Absent from the film were any mention of National Hockey League team […]
Signs of Winter
Do you know what you are seeing in the picture? Most likely not, unless you are Canadian. It is a national tradition, a fall rite of passage. A sure sign of changing seasons. In my neighbourhood and across the country, as October blends into November, the boards are dropped off in the parks and […]
Safety Feature
I understand the reasoning, but I still don’t like it. I don’t expect I will ever like it. Went to the local junior hockey game Wednesday, first time in a number of years that I have done so. For those who aren’t hockey fans, “junior” is players aged 16-20. In Canada those playing junior hockey are […]
Pool Time
I didn’t watch a National Hockey League game all season. My hometown team, the Ottawa Senators, finished last in the league. Why would I join a playoff hockey pool? I asked myself that when I got the email. Years ago I took part in a pool, so now I’m on a list. Thousands of dollars […]
Cinderella Story
Not only is Cinderella is going to the ball, but it looks like the coach may not turn into a pumpkin. It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. The Las Vegas Golden Knights are in the Stanley Cup finals. To say the hockey world is stunned is probably the understatement of 2018. The Knights are […]
Random Thoughts From The Game
As I mentioned yesterday, I went to a hockey game last Sunday between the Freiburg Wolves and the Bad Tolz Lions. It was my first sporting event since arriving here. Between periods I jotted down my thoughts. Rather than fix them up in a more coherent form, here are some random observations on the state […]
The Canadian Bandwagon
Canada is a hockey-obsessed nation. That’s ice hockey not the type played on grass. The game was invented here, refined here and the best players still come from here, though the rest of the world now produced excellent players. Hockey is part of our national myth. Americans of my generation can tell you where they […]
They Called Him Mr. Hockey
He was 47 years old and the best player on the ice I grew up watching Gordie Howe on television, though by that point, the early 1960s, his star was somewhat dimmed. He’d been in the NHL since 1946 – a league where the average player career is about six seasons. At that point he […]
There’s A Riot Going On
Conn Smythe used to say “If you can’t beat ’em in the alley, you can’t beat ’em on the ice.” That’s not as pugnacious as it sounds really, he was talking about hockey after all. Smythe was talking about the need for players to have a certain attitude, to bring a combative approach to how […]
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