On Frozen Blog

In about 30 minutes’ time I’ll begin some serious multi-tasking in my office. Around 10:30 I’ll begin following John Walton’s online call of the Hershey Bears’ schoolday game in Cleveland against the Lake Erie Monsters, a rematch of last Saturday’s 4-1 Bears’ triumph. The American League, to its credit, schedules a handful of these mid-morning weekday skates each season, allowing busloads of school children into the rink at discounted prices. Bears’ right wing Andrew Gordon has a marvelous quote about the game in this morning’s Patriot News:

“A bunch of screaming kids probably won’t be the most intimidating building to go into.”

There are worse ways to begin a mid-week workday than with the impassioned puck calls of the voice of Hershey hockey. JW’s broadcast can be followed here. And this serves merely as brunch before a massive feast of hockey this hump day. The United States faces Swtitzerland in quarterfinal play at 3:00. The Swiss were forced into extra skating by Belarus yesterday afternoon, with the Swiss ultimately prevailing in a shootout. Amazingly, three of the four qualification games yesterday were decided by a lone goal. The afternoon start for the U.S. today allows for the broadcast on the Mothership, NBC. But I’ve a television with cable in my office anyway.

Then the granddaddy of the day: Canada and Russia at 7:00 tonight.

There are easier things to locate than the time and station assignment for the Olympic hockey games, such as Jimmy Hoffa’s corpse, but I’ve labored this morning on your behalf. Canada and Russia will air from 7:00-10:00 tonight on CNBC. Then the Finns and Czechs will follow there at 10:00. Unless NBC changes its mind. Or figure skaters sob in prolonged fashion.

Be sure to update your CV after today, highlighting your ability to multi-task.