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Stanley Cup Goes For a Swim

July 4, 2009

Lord Stanley’s cup, purchased in London for 10 guineas, is said to be the most difficult trophy in sports to attain.    As such, it has been subjected to various indignities over the years.  It is rumoured to have spent a weekend on Guy Lafleur’s lawn in 1978, unguarded, for all his neighbours to see.  Countless [...]

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2008-2009 NHL Season to Start in Sweden?

January 5, 2008

There are rumours circulating that the NHL season will start with games in Sweden and possibly other European capitals for 2008. This might vindicate my post from a few days ago which stated that the league needs to start a dialogue with fans in Europe. Looks like the NHL would start the season with a [...]

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How to Properly Export Hockey

January 1, 2008

It ended this afternoon (early evening, Buffalo time) with a shoot-out goal by phenom Sidney Crosby on Buffalo goalie Ryan Miller before 70,000 freezing, mostly-drunk fans mixed from Canadians and the occasional actual Buffalo Sabres fan amid a blinding snow storm.
If you squint a little, that’s kind of how professional hockey began, more than 125 [...]

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Wired debunks Bettman’s “High-Tech” jerseys..

October 10, 2007

Wired magazine has eloquently attacked the new RBK Edge jerseys which adorn every player of every team in the league as of this season, which were the mastermind of huckster Gary Bettman. They actually had the temerity to suggest that the jerseys are Bettman’s latest scheme to milk the dwindling ranks of existing hockey [...]

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Despicable

May 3, 2007

As the Stanley Cup playoffs rage on, a select crew of Canadian players whose teams are out of the running are over in Moscow defending Canada’s great cultural hockey tradition at the IIHF Hockey World Championships. The 2007 team, which was given a pass this year by past, current, and future greats like Sidney [...]

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