tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81594999676290009252012-01-06T15:04:18.808-05:00It's all about the hockey.Cassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02617914597426524412noreply@blogger.comBlogger3091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159499967629000925.post-43811736204642467722011-12-15T09:27:00.000-05:002011-12-15T09:27:22.217-05:00

League needs help from players to limit concussions I'd like to know when is the respect factor is going to come back into the game. Let me also be clear -- I wasn't the fairest hitter. I left my feet. I hit guys from behind. I had my fair share of dirty hits and cheap hits. I hit to inflict pain at times, without question. I needed that intimidation factor because of my size. Shame on me, but

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So Winnipeg finally got its team. Isn’t that nice? They only had to take one from another city, but hey, they got a team and that’s all that matters, right? You know, it’s days like this that remind me how little empathy the majority of humanity has. “Who cares about Atlanta? We finally got another team!” Great. Remember what it was like when the Jets moved 15 years ago? Yeah, that’s what

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Group interested in luring NHL to Seattle This is the first I've heard of this....

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Drama-king Canucks headed to Stanley Cup Final Well. Would you look at that. An actual NHL article written by a Seattle Times reporter. Usually, it's just AP stuff. My friend Su, who works for the NBC affiliate in Seattle, was told yesterday that someone in the Sports department applied for media credentials for her. So, she should be attending the Stanley Cup Finals, if only in Vancouver. I

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Avs' Peter Forsberg retires from hockey Good for him that he finally came to the decision that he should've years ago. And I believe that he's really done this time. In all of the other times he's left the sport, he's been very clear about his intentions of coming back. This is the first time he's actually retired, and I think he'll stay retired. It's just too bad that he didn't play at least

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Forsberg saga will only get more interesting So where do other NHL teams come into the equation? Yes, Forsberg has a no-trade, no-movement clause in the $1 million pro-rated contract he signed with Colorado. But do you think he’s put in all the work to come back to the NHL to help the Avs work on a lottery pick? Clearly, he envisioned being on a playoff team."Interesting" is not the word I'd use

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Daily Debate: Will Sidney Crosby's absence diminish All-Star Game? LeBrun: And don't forget the media game Sunday morning at RBC Center. That's always one of the big highlights of the weekend. Just kidding!If I'd have known - or thought about it, really - that there was a media game months ago, I might've tried to get back into skating shape for that. Damn it. That could've been far too much fun.

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Caps’ Steckel can’t duck Crosby hit "Contrary to popular belief, I feel like it was incidental," [David] Steckel said. "I didn’t see him. I didn’t look. That’s a tough instance. To look back now and be like, 'Well, I’m going to get suspended for a head hit when I had no idea …' "I'd have to agree with this. I didn't watch the game, but I did watch the hit. Sidney Crosby was clearly looking

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Henrik Sticks Up For Himself in 3-2 Loss to the Canadiens I love the idea of Hank playing feisty! He's one of my two favorite goalies currently playing in the NHL - it's tied between him, Henrik Lundqvist, and Antero Niittymaki. After them, the list falls off rather sharply. I'm going to have to go find me some video of that now. I do have to question where his defensemen were in all of this,

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The Sleeping Giant If you're taking this site at all seriously, then you're missing the entire point of it. This is a USA - World Junior Hockey Championships blog. And it's run by two of the most sarcastic and caustically humored guys that you'll come across in the hockey blogging world. One is a Leafs fan who writes for Pension Plan Puppets on SB Nation, and the other has a general NHL blog,

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A fan's guide to The Big Chill At The Big House and other tidbits you may never need University of Michigan Wolverines Hockey Michigan State University Spartans Hockey If I were able to go to go to one outdoor hockey game this year, this one would be it. Hands down, no question. 109,000 people in a football stadium to watch a hockey game? Between two rival teams? And college teams at that?

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Ryan Kesler drops pants, draws mockery from Canucks Hockey players are not bulky guys. I think the NHL average is something like 6'1½", 205 lbs. Or something like that. It doesn't pay to be bulky when you want to be fast - it's just as simple as that. So if you need some graphic evidence of this, here's a picture of a hockey player in, well, very little. For the men, it's something to visually

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Top Five: MVP’s, Goalies, Defensemen and Rookies [Justin Bourne] Skip the MVPs, goalies, and whatnot. Scroll down to the bottom of the post, if you dare. Talk about Frankenstein...wow. That's so not pretty. If people think that (American) football players are tougher than hockey players, I'd like for them to see this picture of this guy with multiple staples to his neck due to a skate blade.

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In which Islanders’ Matt Moulson reminds us why NHL players rule This is awesome. Too bad none of the Lightning players are on Twitter. Although, I have to admit, I'm not really one for autographs. Oh, I have a few - Peter Forsberg, Mats Sundin, and Pavel Bure, for example - but they were sent or given to me. Sometimes by the players themselves, even when I didn't ask for them, but that's

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This hockey season's going to be a bit crazy, I think. We - Raw Charge, really - have actually got media credentials going on, and we're using them, too. John Fontana was at the NHL Entry Draft in LA over the summer, Meredith Qualls has been to the one preseason Tampa Bay Lightning game and the season opener, and now I'm going to be going to Norfolk this weekend. The Norfolk Admirals would be

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What We Learned: Should NHL teams have Canadian player quotas? I think this is wrong for a number of reasons. One, Canadian hockey fans - with the exception of the Québécois and the Montréal Canadiens - don't really care how many Canadian players are on each team. They only care about where that team is physically located. If they cared about the players on each team, then they wouldn't be so

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It's not that surprising that Crosby hit it out. Hockey players probably have better arm control/hand-eye coordination than most baseball players do. (You try deflecting a puck that's been shot by another guy going 70 mph past a moving goalie when someone else is trying to hit you - oh yeah, on ice skates - and then get back to me.) He could be a two-sport guy if he wanted to. But then most elite

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Ten Players and Their Hall of Fame Worthiness Okay, I have to admit that I'm not a big fan of Adrian Dater. After seeing his Twitter escapades, it's really proved to me that he's an egotistical and unmitigated homer. So his list is a bit...suspect...to say the least. I do agree with much of this list, however. If Peter Forsberg isn't a first-ballot Hockey Hall of Famer, then I don't know who

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Old-timey Henrik Zetterberg puts the 'weird' in wedding photos This. Is. Hysterical! I love theme weddings. They're so much fun. People take some things far too seriously, I think - like weddings. It's supposed to be a celebration, and celebrations are supposed to be fun, not a all somber and serious.

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The Program - 18 July 2010 After my show aired, I was asked to join the Program. And, boy, did I join them, too. I talked for almost two hours with them. I come in at about 1 hour, 6 minutes and stay, and stay, and stay. Pretty much I ran the conversation for a lot of it. We got into a heated discussion for the last hour or so, and that was pretty fun. I didn't give the other girl a room in

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Crisis in the "Q": A study of Quebec-born NHL players I thought the time was right to sit back and study the general health of the system that produces Quebec-born hockey players and that required a long, hard look at the QMJHL. To do that properly meant looking at the numbers in context. In order to achieve that, I decided to study not just the “Q” but the other North American leagues, and even

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Totally Off-Topic: Most Ironic Neighborhoods in America I was recently in Portland, OR, and I could not believe the sheer concentration of hipsters. (If you don't know what a hipster is, consider yourself lucky.) I mean, I live in San Francisco, and I lived in the Mission for six years, so there's no lack of mustachioed, inked-up tight-jean and 80s ray-ban wearing hipster dudes riding by me on

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Former Michigan hockey defenseman Jack Johnson keeps his word, continues to pursue degree During the NHL season, Johnson, who is 23, takes classes online, using off-days to study and complete coursework. Technology, including video conferencing and Web tutorials, has made distance learning easier, but balancing school with an NHL career isn't easy.Good for him. I wish education was more of a

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As if I don't plenty of other places to write, here's yet another one. This makes my fourth hockey blog now, and one personal blog. Maybe I ought to getting to write that book, huh? Of course, I'd have to cut back on where I blog.... So Su Ring and I stuck our heads together - along with some helpful suggestions from John Fontana - and decided that our online radio show had become successful

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Let's Hear It For The Girls! If Wayne Gretzky is credited with growing the sport in the state of California and into the Sunbelt in the southern United States, James and Granato are responsible for growing the sport in two entire countries. Name one player currently in the Hockey Hall of Fame that has had that kind of effect on the game of hockey. Bobby Orr? Wayne Gretzky? Gordie Howe? Maurice

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Sports-Centric Web Sites Expand, and Bias Is Welcome The popular site is just one of more than 250 unapologetically biased sports sites owned by SB Nation, most of them dedicated to a single team. The sites, written by fans for fans, do not claim to break news or have an inside scoop, but they often serve as a digital water cooler for the like-minded. This is who I write for. I've talked to Tyler

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Girl Goalies and Guys’ Egos If I get down a couple of goals to “la fille”, the guys on my team will go like gangbusters to mount a comeback.  Conversely, the guys on her side frequently seem to be in awe of her stuff, almost letting her get more action on purpose to see if she can handle it.  Then, if they win they seem just as likely to chalk it up to their great goalscoring rather than her

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Connect Puck Talk Su Ring from Daily Su and I are talking hockey tonight. Join us for some discussions on the NHL, AHL, major junior leagues, international competition - basically, we'll cover whatever's going on as long as it's hockey-related. Su has already talked to some minor league hockey players that she's interviewed before, and they may stop in from time to time. For those who are

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The Straight Edge: California ripe for Div. I NCAA hockey “The first college or university in California (to add hockey) will have an immediate pool of recruits to draw from,” [Paul Kelly] said. “Within a very short period of time, you could be competing for a national title.”This makes me happy - for many reasons. One, I love the idea of Pac-10 hockey. And believe you me, if the California

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Boston Bruins say dating Philadelphian women is hairy situation From the hallowed halls of Puck Daddy comes some sage dating advice for hockey fans everywhere....

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Su and I crashed Connect Community Radio a bit late last night, and did our own show on the spur of the moment. So it's completely ad libbed. And it's only an hour long, too. Sorry that it's so Pacific Northwest centric.... Anyways, we've decided - Su and I that is - to start our own show up together. Our friend Juice isn't up for doing a weekly program, and we think that we can do that.

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Connect Community Radio-Playoff Extravaganza continues Su Ring from Daily Su, Joanne Giuliano from 10 Minute Miss Conduct, and I will be hosting this week's edition of Connect Community Radio. The show's regular host, Juice in LA (from One Minute of Play) isn't able to do the whole show tonight, so Su and I volunteered to sit in for her. This is a first time for me, so we'll see how this goes.

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In going thru my blog roll, I had to make some ruthless decisions. Some of the people that I follow just haven't been updating their blogs all that often. So, in the interest of saving time and space, I've had to let a few of them go. Including friend's blogs, sadly. But if you haven't posted anything in the four months, then I've cut you loose - so sorry; nothing personal intended there. Which

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I've been keeping a low profile lately - partly because of my traditional end of hockey season burnout, but also because I've been posting every Thursday at From the Rink on general NHL stuff. I'm slowly edging my way back into writing more. Last night, we saw a resurrection of an online radio show by some friends of mine. Don't be confused by the name - Puck Bunny Radio - because it's about

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Edmonton Oilers Draft Lottery Simulator While this is funny, it's also very sad. I can't even believed that they put this up on their team site! You know a team sucks when....

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Rheaume relishes being a role model I was playing hockey around the time that she was playing preseason games for the Tampa Bay Lightning. While I've never looked up to her as a role model, I've always thought that what she was doing was awesome and important. So good for her that she's good with the added weight of not only being a role model, but also a pioneer.

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Wayne Gretzky [flashback photo] Seriously, did they have to do that? This needs a warning sign. The picture almost took one of my eyes out. It's PG, but only barely.

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I'm very surprised that they didn't interview Peter Forsberg for this piece. I mean, I know that Forsberg's back in Sweden and all, but they were very good friends. And I'm sure they still are. That's too bad, really. You know, I always liked Adam Deadmarsh. I started watching him play junior hockey when he was 17 years old with the Portland Winterhawks. I was genuinely upset when his career

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So this is frustrating. Over at my Tampa Bay Lightning blog, Raw Charge, my co-blogger John has been busy trying to track down an interview with a player on their farm team, the Norfolk Admirals. So we've been going back and forth with their media relations guy, who's really come off as something of a flake. Yesterday, we'd had it all lined up when someone dropped the ball. I was supposed to

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How The Outside World Views Sidney Crosby ... I'm guessing if you took away the media and the hype, if that never existed and you just had Sidney Crosby as a hockey player, most fans would respect or like him. ...The actual problem with Sidney Crosby isn't Sidney Crosby himself. It's all the NHL's fault. The marketing department latched on to him and then not only blew marketing him all out of

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What’s a Goal Between Friends? [Ryan] Miller said: “It’s nice that the Olympics can help bring that out in the crowds here in the N.H.L. Especially out in the East Coast, you hear it a lot, and up in Canada they like to give you a hard time and it would be nice to hear a crowd appreciate your effort when you’re on the road. But I think that’s what’s good about hockey fans, too. They enjoy a

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Postcard from Vancouver Each USA player has been adopted by a wounded warrior from their home town, university or NHL city. They were informed that "you are not just playing for your country, but for your warrior as well". A personal package was provided containing a letter of encouragement and various other items, even bullets taken from the soldier's bodies to be placed in the player's locker.

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As posted on Raw Charge....  Forsberg still hankers for NHL future "But at this stage of my career I don't think I'm ever going to be really healthy again so I'm just going to do my best and see how it goes."A very true, but probably very painful, admission from one of the greatest hockey players ever. I watched much of this game, and while Forsberg is no longer the dominant player he once was,

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It’s Not Political, but More Canadians Are Lefties A 2006 study found that 60 percent of all National Hockey League forwards were left-handed, as were 70 percent of all N.H.L. defensemen, but those statistics were not sorted by nationality.I thought that that was an interesting and curious statistic. I helped put together my own hockey team because there wasn't a woman's program anywhere near

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J. Lamoureux's Highlight-Reel Goal [video] Eat your heart out, NHLers.

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Wit and Wisdom of Hockey [slideshow] Here's a little Friday fun for you all. Have a good time. Enjoy!

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Hockey on U.S. TV: NBC affiliates get bulk of the games Here you go. What we're able to see here in the States. OAnd also for those people who get US channels on satellite. Enjoy.

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Capitals continue to reach out to fans through social networking The Capitals have more than 95,000 fans on Facebook and more than 11,000 followers on Twitter. Players with accounts include defenseman Mike Green, who Twitters as GreenLife52 and has more than 6,000 followers, and forward Eric Fehr, who only recently began using the social networking Web site at the suggestion of the Capitals. "

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Inglourious Backes Shirt David Backes is dismantling Team Canada with his fists We have the Team USA Olympic rallying cry. And, hey, better odds than usual for winning gold. Gotta like that. Odds to Win the 2010 Olympic Ice Hockey Championship Canada 1/1 Russia 2/1 Sweden

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Impact of 1998 [US] women's team can still be felt today Unlike with the men's hockey, where you can at least dream that you could play professionally, the Olympics are about as big as you can get if you're a woman playing hockey. So I was very interested in the first Olympic games where women's hockey was a gold medal event. I watched the gold medal game with more interest than the men's game.

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Hockey Weekend Across America Hope you're wearing your favorite hockey jersey today. 

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Oilers nearing Dirty Dozen in losses The Oilers are one game away from doing what has never been done in franchise history before – lose every single, solitary game in a full month schedule. It hasn't been done by an NHL team for 12 years! They have 12 straight losses. Uh.... Wow. Edmonton? Really? You've got to feel bad for the fans. I guess the Tampa Bay Lightning can be worse off. Sort of.

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Have a look at Ryan Miller's Team U.S.A. goalie mask I like the concept, but not sure if I like the artwork. Hmmm. And I'd like to see what the other side looks like, frankly. Let me think about this one and get back to you....

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Michigan vs. MSU hockey headed to Big House in December? I've been to Ann Arbor. Been past the Big House, too. It's an odd experience, tho, since only something like the top 20 rows of the stadium are above street level. You would never guess that it was one of the largest stadiums in the world if you walked past it.

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Ten Things I Hate About ... the Tampa Bay Lightning - Game Preview and Open Thread These guys are pretty shameless and vulgar, but I can respect that. And the fact that they're Montreal fans, I guess I can respect that, too. The swearing and the flagrant sexism, well, that I'm just jealous of. It upsets my sense of propriety too much to be able to let myself go like that. However, the lack of

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NHL Goalie Masks by Team (2009-10) Oh, the things you can do with Kevlar....

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B.C. bound? Don't forget to pack your passport If you are a U.S. citizen driving, taking a bus or train back from Canada into the U.S., you are required to present a U.S. passport, U.S. passport card, enhanced driver's license or a trusted-traveler program card, such as a NEXUS card. When returning home from Canada by plane you are required to present a U.S. passport. If you're an American

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What We Learned: Sabres unleash the Furries; Kesler punked The things you learn when you read about hockey - let me tell you! Sadly, this is pretty tame. Funny, but still tame.

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Frei: Promoting game still far from done Tell us something we don't already know. Marketing in the NHL is a travesty. Seriously, a middle schooler could do a better job of it. Not that I mean to insult teenagers, but you know what I mean.

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I will be visiting with Jim and The Mouth on Blueshirt Banter Radio around 6 pm Eastern today to preview tonight's Tampa Bay Lighting - NY Rangers game. The show itself starts at 5:30, and Blueshirt Banter is the SB Nation New York Rangers site. It'll be fun, I'm sure. Feel free to listen in. The game will be broadcast nationally on Versus at 7 pm Eastern. Listen to Blueshirt Banter on Blog Talk

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The Plight of the Female Fan: Fighting Stereotypes and Earning Respect [The Argument] Rabbit Stew [The Rebuttle] Both of these women present very valid arguments. I've seen this behavior (male and female) for myself, and I know exactly what each of them are talking about. So read them over and decide for yourself. As for myself, no one has ever mistaken me for a puck bunny. Which is a very

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U.S. sports leagues, teams pledge cash for Haiti relief Good for the NHL that they're making a significant contribution. It makes sense for Major League Baseball to do that - they have players from Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic in their league. Same goes for the NY Yankees. And Lance Armstrong probably has raced and known Haitians. The NHL has no connections to Haiti, but they're

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Your Official 2010 Winter Olympic Hockey (Men’s & Women’s) Superschedule Now you have something to plan your days around when the Olympics start, US hockey fans. Although, if anyone finds a master TV schedule for all of Olympic hockey that covers other countries as well, let me know. I'd like to watch other teams play besides the US.

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I contacted the Washington Capitals last Friday about press credentials to a Tampa Bay Lightning game January 31st in DC, and got a response back today. The Caps, while a front-runner in the NHL for allowing new media access to their team, defer to the other team in this case because I write about the Lightning. Now the Lightning are willing to grant my co-blogger John and I access, but only at

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Demographics may be catching up to Canadian junior hockey Consider this: The night before the Americans claimed gold in Saskatoon, their under-17 national team did the same thing in Timmins, Ont, beating Team Ontario at the world hockey challenge. America's women, meanwhile, have won three of the last four world championships by dispatching Canada in the gold-medal game. All that needs to happen

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Some of you will appreciate this more than others, I think. But the thing you've got to love is the team spirit shown here. These guys are not only excited that they won, but thrilled that they won it for their teammates. This is what being a team is about - watch the guys, don't just listen to the words.

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Good night: Suck it, Canada, it’s our game now Ryan, you are an American god to me. Okay, not really. Hopefully, if you're not American, you can see the humor in this post. Seriously. It's funny. Really. Even if you don't understand all of the jokes.

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Monday Scramble: Golf at Fenway Park? I guess even golf gets outdoor hockey envy. And they're already an outdoor sport! They did a good job with Photoshopping, tho.

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Too much American influence Another indication of the Americanization of hockey comes in the proliferation of statistics. Americans are very big on stats. Tune in to any baseball, football, basketball, or hockey game these days and you'll hear averages, percentages, and "tendencies" until your ears swell. Talk about nit-picky.... And here I thought that people who didn't want hockey in cities

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The roster is set: Meet Team Canada Team USA 2010 Olympic Hockey Team: In need of a miracle? Here you go - the last two. I'm still mulling the rosters over. I might come back and offer up some opinions on them later on.

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NHL, NHLPA write to IIHF about Team Russia If this is true, this just totally negates Hockey Canada's grotesquely overdone introduction of just a roster yesterday. On the down side, it complicates things for every hockey league that's contributing players. Not to mention the respective national team's general managers. Trust the Russians to know the loopholes, tho. Now the rosters might not

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I love hockey commercials. They're just so much more fun than any other sport. Football and basketball are far too serious. Baseball commercials - particularly the infamous Seattle Mariners commercials - are a little more lighthearted. But hockey commercials are the best. Even if they are over two minutes long like this one. This will appear during the Winter Classic on Friday. Of course it's

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Lecavalier's play of late has been a driving force Perhaps the notion of being a parent, as longtime girlfriend Caroline Portelance is expecting the couple's first child in May, has given the 29-year-old a new perspective on life off the ice. Or maybe he finally started relying more on his natural abilities to help snap out of a scoring funk. And here I thought the good news going around was just

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Selanne, Kiprusoff highlight Finnish roster Jagr returns to Olympics with Czechs Selanne & Jagr, too, huh? Now the selections of Forsberg and Fedorov don't seem quite so unusual. Makes me wonder if the US & Canada will take that route, too. Hockey Canada will announce their roster at noon o'clock Eastern today. Well, that's when their roster naming ceremony/event starts. They probably won't

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Latvia names Olympic roster Norway names Olympic roster Slovakia names Olympic roster Canada will announce their roster at noon Eastern tomorrow. With all of the pomp and fanfare they think it deserves. Guaranteed that it'll be on the cheesy/hokey side - because that's how Canada likes it best.

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On the Ice, By Verlyn Klinkenborg Published: December 27, 2009; New York Times The school buses have already left, and now the first teachers are heading for their cars and trucks, the day over, the afternoon thick with relief. The bitter cold of the weekend has lifted. Out on the ice, just past the school, there is a precise rectangle of banked snow, the outline of a skating rink that was

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Forsberg, Lidstrom headline Sweden selections Just yesterday I was complaining bitterly about the lack of respect in sports. The World Junior Championships are going on, and Canada ran up the score against Latvia 16-0. And people wonder why head shots are a problem in the NHL these days.... On the flip side is this - Peter Forsberg being named to the Swedish Olympic team. To be honest, I'm not

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'Twas The Night Before Christmas 'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the league Not a player was stirring, not even Kris Versteeg. The jerseys were hung in their lockers with care, In hopes that Lord Stanley would soon be there. The fans were nestled all snug in their beds While visions of Cup parades danced in their heads. And Gary in his office, and I near my tree And just

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Belarus the first nation to name is hockey roster And so it begins.... Canada will be announcing their roster on 30 December at the World Junior Championship tournament in Saskatoon. The US is announcing theirs immediately following the Winter Classic at Fenway Park on New Year's Day. The US named their women's Olympic hockey team roster 17 December, while Canada named their women's team roster

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Over the Glass and Into Hockey Lore This is probably my favorite hockey story of all time, and just because of the whole shoe incident. Eighteen Bruins went into the stands. Milbury said, “If you watch the tape — and I can freely throw my teammates under the bus now after 30 years — people were throwing some serious shots down below us that were obscured by the fact that everybody was focusing

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Leafs In Suits! Vs Sabres Ok, here's the thing you need to understand about Mike Komisarek; Do you see the little smirk on his face? He's smirking because seconds before this picture was taken, he said "I feel like it's a fashion show every time you guys are here." Seriously. THAT'S WHAT HE ACTUALLY SAID. Mike Komisarek GETS it. That's why I love him. In the last L.I.S. post, Komisarek actually

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Western Washington University Hockey 2009-2010 Game Schedule Having an NCAA team isn't a matter of interest, it's a matter of funding. And since most schools don't have a lot of funding, they don't have an NCAA ice hockey team. Which is why, when you look up the college ice hockey leagues, there really aren't that many of them. But that doesn't mean that a school can't and doesn't field their

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It occurred to me that I should get a Tampa Bay Lightning jersey. Not for any great love of the team, necessarily, but I have been blogging about them for the past two and a half seasons. It'd be more in way of a memento than an actual fan kind of thing. I'd probably never wear it to a game - probably - that's just not usually my thing. Tho you never know when the mood might strike me. My first

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Happy Birthday Victor Hedman For those of you who need a Hedman fix, here you go.

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Hardest Shot Ever? What I find interesting is that no one's seemingly made mention of this kind of stuff in the mainstream hockey media since apparently 1968. Okay, that's probably not true, but this is a pretty extensive sort of study. And no one's improved upon that since?

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Justin Bourne's Blog: Entitlement vs. reality [The Hockey News] I've really enjoyed this guy's writing. The problem is, he posts stuff all over: USA Today, The Hockey News, his personal blog. I feel like I'm missing something somewhere. We've all known people like this. In high school, it was the talented football player who always got the touchdowns and the girls. In college, it was the same

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Canadian women rely on men's midget teams As mentioned in a previous post, this is commonplace - it isn't just the national team that does this. All women's teams do this. Playing against boys was always fun. Playing against other women could get pretty nasty sometimes.

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Puck Daddy chats with Junior Seau of 'Sports Jobs' about being a hockey equipment manager and the NFL vs. NHL Hockey players have this reputation for being blue-collar guys, low key. Was this your first interaction with players like this, and how did you find them? I found them as cordial, laidback and tough. All in one. You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But

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It's a little old, but it's still good. "If you want money, go to the bank. If you want bread, go to the bakery. If you want goals, go to the net." -Brooks Laich, Center, Washington Capitals

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Puck Daddy has been counting down the top ten of the decade, and this video clip was on their list for The 10 biggest NHL stories of the last decade. Technically, the decade isn't over until 2011, but whatever. Most people don't realize that, anyways.I was at this game with my sister Jill. We were sitting in the corner where the fights ended up - the entire opposite end of the ice from where

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Now this is too funny.And HERE is Puck Daddy's take on this.Okay, so here are the rules for women's hockey. When women's teams play each other, there's no body checking allowed - it's actually a two-minute penalty. But, because there aren't many women's teams around, they have to find other people to play. And often it's boys midget teams (15-17-year-olds).Before the game starts, both teams are

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Naslund ending retirementOnly Forsberg could talk Naslund out of retirement. And to play for nothing, too. Good for them that they want to help out their hometown team.However, I can't help but feel that the reasons in Forsberg's case are just a little bit more selfish than altruistic. Which isn't to say that what they're doing isn't a good thing, but still. Forsberg has made no secret of the

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'Will to win' drove Penguins fan's recoveryWhat nobody was prepared for was when Celesnik awakened from her coma April 23, and her first words were: "Is there a hockey game tonight?"I'd probably do that, too, if I just came out of a coma. Sad, but true. I can totally identify with that kind of thinking.While I've never been in a life or death situation like this woman, hockey has gotten me thru

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Players less safe in era of salary cap, instigator penaltyI totally agree with this - most of it, anyways.Well, except for the salary cap part. Especially since GMs were trading players like 9-year-old boys trade hockey cards long before the salary cap was implemented. For instance, when the Vancouver Canucks made it to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1994, only two or three guys were still there five

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The NHL's top secret flow chart for handing out suspensionsThis makes soo much sense. I just thought that they threw darts at a board, drew punishments out of a hat, took too many drugs, played paper-rock-scissors, or had a special magic 8 ball made for their use to determine suspensions. So there's actually a method to their madness? Who knew?LOVE. THIS.

Cassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02617914597426524412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159499967629000925.post-79428729339424383692009-11-11T09:44:00.003-05:002009-11-11T09:48:47.109-05:00

How Sounders FC turned 2009 into Seattle soccer celebrationThe NHL would do well to follow this team's example. This is how you market a team - and a sport - in an area. Seriously. Do this. Talk to the Seattle Sounders FC. They'll probably be more than happy to help. And try the Seattle Mariners while you're at it, too.

Cassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02617914597426524412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159499967629000925.post-85110378199475006542009-11-08T21:10:00.001-05:002009-11-08T21:12:04.281-05:00

In case you'd missed it from before, here's my 45-minute interview.

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I will be on at 5:30-ish today. Stop in and say hi. It should be a good time.Listen to Jabberhockey on Blog Talk Radio

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Raw Charge on JabberHockey, Sunday, Nov 8th @ 5.30PM ESTI'll post up a reminder on Raw Charge probably early on Sunday - and maybe here again, too - as well. If you want to hear me BS...I mean, chat about hockey, then tune in. Otherwise, ignore this and move on with your life as if this never happened.Which, maybe it didn't. Depends on whether you buy into denial or string theory, I guess.

Cassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02617914597426524412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159499967629000925.post-66074054282597368442009-11-04T10:24:00.003-05:002009-11-04T13:10:22.874-05:00

Love him or hate him, but you've got to admit that this is pretty impressive.By the way, did I forget to mention that he's played goalie in street hockey?

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