Comments on: “Cold-Cocked” Is a Hot Read http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2008/02/25/cold-cocked-is-a-hot-read/ A Haven for the Hockey Malnourished Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:03:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: DC Sports Chick http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2008/02/25/cold-cocked-is-a-hot-read/#comment-115468 DC Sports Chick Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:36:20 +0000 http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2008/02/25/cold-cocked-is-a-hot-read/#comment-115468 Can't speak to the Ovens book (though I did read the HLOG review), but yes, Lorna Jackson seems to know quite a lot about hockey. Can’t speak to the Ovens book (though I did read the HLOG review), but yes, Lorna Jackson seems to know quite a lot about hockey.

]]> By: "Aneesa" http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2008/02/25/cold-cocked-is-a-hot-read/#comment-114624 "Aneesa" Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:45:14 +0000 http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2008/02/25/cold-cocked-is-a-hot-read/#comment-114624 I am glad to see that a female has written a book seemingly better for real female hockey fans than Lisa Oven's book "High in High Heels." I am glad to see that a female has written a book seemingly better for real female hockey fans than Lisa Oven’s book “High in High Heels.”

]]> By: HockeePhan http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2008/02/25/cold-cocked-is-a-hot-read/#comment-103479 HockeePhan Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:16:00 +0000 http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2008/02/25/cold-cocked-is-a-hot-read/#comment-103479 I don't let my son watch Don Cherry. He is an inside joke that frankly I don't want to have to explain. Way back when, in Canada, there used to be Peter Puck, aimed at kids during a game that they knew kids watched. Now Cherry is like putting raw talk radio on TV. Which is fine if you are with a group of grown ups - but that hockey telecast is watched by so many kids, and Cherry is an enabler for a macho standard of the game that is off-putting to many. If it wasn't for the "gosh, what is he going to say next factor", there wouldn't be any reason to watch him. I have heard that the CBC has lost the broadcast rights to Hockey Night in Canada sometime around 2010. I hope the new broadcaster doesn't feel the need to replicate the tired CBC Don Cherry formula. As for the locker room .... I can't comment specifically on that, but I have been to enough hockey old boy events to know that the hockey establishment can make it tough for new fans to embrace the game. I don’t let my son watch Don Cherry. He is an inside joke that frankly I don’t want to have to explain. Way back when, in Canada, there used to be Peter Puck, aimed at kids during a game that they knew kids watched.

Now Cherry is like putting raw talk radio on TV. Which is fine if you are with a group of grown ups - but that hockey telecast is watched by so many kids, and Cherry is an enabler for a macho standard of the game that is off-putting to many. If it wasn’t for the “gosh, what is he going to say next factor”, there wouldn’t be any reason to watch him.

I have heard that the CBC has lost the broadcast rights to Hockey Night in Canada sometime around 2010. I hope the new broadcaster doesn’t feel the need to replicate the tired CBC Don Cherry formula.

As for the locker room …. I can’t comment specifically on that, but I have been to enough hockey old boy events to know that the hockey establishment can make it tough for new fans to embrace the game.

]]> By: Josh http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2008/02/25/cold-cocked-is-a-hot-read/#comment-103416 Josh Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:57:45 +0000 http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2008/02/25/cold-cocked-is-a-hot-read/#comment-103416 That sounds like a really interesting book. I'm gonna have to give that a try if I can find it around here. I guess amazon would probably work too. That sounds like a really interesting book. I’m gonna have to give that a try if I can find it around here. I guess amazon would probably work too.

]]> By: Walt http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2008/02/25/cold-cocked-is-a-hot-read/#comment-103367 Walt Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:18:50 +0000 http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2008/02/25/cold-cocked-is-a-hot-read/#comment-103367 Thanks for the heads up on Cold Cocked. Should be an interesting read. Thanks for the heads up on Cold Cocked. Should be an interesting read.

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