Yesterday’s USA Today featured a column from hockey columnist Justin Bourne titled, “It’s time to end the use of gay slurs in hockey.” It’s a nice sentiment, but it feels like a blip on the radar the day after an entire state smacked us down.
There hasn’t been progress on this issue for years. When I [...]
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Column calls for end to gay slurs in hockey
Sports Tweet: Clueless Coach
I am not the biggest fan of Philadelphia Flyers head coach John Stevens. When the Flyers fired Ken Hitchcock and replaced him with Stevens after a terrible start to the 2006-07 season, I thought it was a panic move. Although Stevens won a championship in the minors, and the Flyers had a fine 2007-08 playoff [...]
N.Y. Rangers do Letterman’s Top 10 list
Members of the New York Rangers presented the “Top 10 Things Never Spoken Before by a Hockey Player.” They also carried Madonna into the studio on their shoulders. “Have you ever ridden hockey players before?” Letterman asked later. Videos:
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The NHL is back
As usual, the National Hockey League has its problems. The Phoenix Coyotes are bankrupt and a judge is trying to sort out a mess in which the league is trying to stop the only bidder willing to buy the team, because he wants to move it to Hamilton, Ontario. All of this led to the [...]
NHL Winter Classic: let’s play two?
The NHL Winter Classic, thanks to successful outdoor games at Buffalo’s Ralph Wilson Stadium in 2008 and Chicago’s Wrigley Field this year, is quickly becoming a New Year’s Day tradition. Now the National Hockey League may be expanding it. Multiple sources are reporting that the league plans to turn the next Winter Classic into a [...]
More proof hockey players are manly men
In the aftermath of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ seventh-game Stanley Cup victory at Detroit, Red Wings star Nicklas Lidstrom revealed the reason he missed the final two games of the Western Conference semifinal series against Chicago: he had surgery after being speared in the testicles by Chicago’s Patrick Sharp in Game 3 of that series.
Lidstrom told [...]
Wanna see a champion? Visit Pennsylvania
A couple of months ago my friend Kurt and I were walking around downtown Philadelphia after lunch. We passed a steakhouse that opened recently and has become a favorite spot for celebrities. We saw a guy with a beard and some bruising on his face outside the restaurant and we both had the same thought: [...]
Good ratings news for NHL, NBC
Granted, the May sweeps ended and the summer television doldrums are upon us, so many network programs are in reruns. Plus, Saturday night has become a true dead zone for network television. Taking all of that into consideration, though, NBC and the NHL have to be happy with the ratings for the first two games [...]
Stanley Cup Finals Preview
The more things change, the more they stay the same. For the second consecutive year the NHL season wraps up with a Detroit Red Wings-Pittsburgh Penguins final. Let the battle between Motown and the Steel City commence!
Last year the Red Wings won in 6 games. Despite the addition of Marian Hossa near the end of [...]
The Rematch….Wings vs Pens
This is what I’m talking about. The Detroit Red Wings against the Pittsburgh Penguins for the Stanley Cup Finals. It doesn’t get better than this. The Penguins Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin are on fire with 28 points a piece in the playoffs so far. But don’t ever count out the Red Wings, even if [...]
Stanley Cup Conference Finals preview
Sometimes, even the blind squirrel finds the acorn. That’s one way of looking at the fact that I not only called all four conference semifinal series winners, but also correctly predicted that no series would go less than six games. Three of them ended up going the distance, as it turned out, with the Carolina-Boston [...]
NHL: Capitals-Penguins must-see TV
The first-ever Stanley Cup playoff showdown between the NHL’s top two superstars has lived up to the hype. On Monday night Alexander Ovechkin’s Washington Capitals forced a seventh game in their Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Pittsburgh Penguins with a 5-4 overtime win at The Igloo (or, if you’re a stickler for corporate names, [...]
‘Do you suck cock? Are you gay?’
Via Deadspin we learn of Austrian hockey player Oliver Setzinger, who was caught on tape during a loss to Denmark arguing with a fan. Video below.
Setzinger took a trip to the penalty box in the third period against the Danes and television audio picked up his “thanks for coming” chat with a fan from … [...]
Stanley Cup - Second Round Preview
We’re down to eight teams in the Quest for the Cup. I predicted six out of eight first-round winners correctly, with three series right on the button (Pittsburgh over Philadelphia in 6, Washington over NY Rangers in 7, Chicago over Calgary in 6). Since I picked the higher seeds in every matchup, I also ranked [...]
Canadian sports reporter bloops, no bleep
How great is it when reporters forget or don’t realize they’re live? This one from Roger Millions on Rogers Sportsnet trying to get the name of a Calgary defenseman right.
Hat tip to Towleroad.
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