20 March, 2010

Category Archives: Hardcore Hockey Fans

In Canada, Even Pets Watched Sunday’s Gold Medal Game

2 March, 2010

It was a bit of a riptide that swirled across and through new media yesterday afternoon — more than 27 million Americans tuned in to the gold medal game on Sunday, making it the highest rated hockey on television in the States in 30 years. You had to go all the way back to Lake [...]

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Wanted: More Patriots in Pucks

18 February, 2010

Like a good many other American hockey fans, I’ve been underwhelmed by NBC’s hockey coverage during this first week of the Winter Olympic Games. Bumped off the big channel for ice dancing was the first indignity. Then last night, after a particularly long and trying day at work, I sat down to watch Nick Backstrom [...]

Also filed in American Hockey, Hockey Heroes, Morning cup-a-joe, Olympic hockey, USA Hockey | Comments (6)

Comcast Correspondent at a Classic New Year’s Weekend in Beantown

4 January, 2010

You know how the next best thing to owning a beach house is having a friend who does? Well, we didn’t have  tickets to this year’s Winter Classic, but Comcast Sportsnet’s Lisa Hillary did. Actually, she also worked the system a bit to get an invite to the league’s New Year’s Eve bash as well. Anyway, she [...]

Also filed in Comcast SportsNet, Lisa Hillary, National Hockey League, Pond Hockey, Puck Sodas, Winter Classic | Comments (0)

Mullets + Bruins Jerseys = White Trash

11 June, 2009

I recently happened upon some photos of Seal and Heidi Klum’s vow renewal ceremony from last month. (There is a hockey nexus, I swear.) It was a cheesetastic event, featuring all things tacky and white-trash.

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From Boudreau(x)'s to Brashear, TX: My Summer Vacation

6 June, 2009

When my cousin in Dallas announced last year that she was getting married, I mentioned to Chanuck that we should go, especially since my parents live in Houston and we could visit there first. For a variety of reasons too boring to list, I decided that it should be a road trip. Surely I must be a masochist- who in their right mind does a 3000-mile drive with an active 13-month-old?

Also filed in American Hockey League, Bruce Boudreau, Chicago Blackhawks, Donald Brashear, detroit red wings | Comments (3)

We're One Week Away from Painting This Town in Touques

10 November, 2008

One week from today the documentary ‘Pond Hockey’ arrives for a single-night screening at Washington’s historic Avalon Theater. Next Monday night we know we’re in for a great cinematic experience, one that richly captures outdoor hockey’s ageless and enduring appeal, but we have another aim for the evening: we want every puckhead patron seated in [...]

Also filed in Hockey Art, Hockey Movies, OFB Interviews, Pond Hockey Movie, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (0)

It's Hockey Movie Night Again During the Holidays in D.C.

25 October, 2008

Last year in the middle of the holidays we helped spread the word about a single-night screening of ‘The Rocket’ at the historic Avalon Theater in Northwest D.C. We’re doing the same thing this year — Washington is hosting another night at the movies to celebrate hockey.
On Monday night, November 17, at 8:00, puckheads will [...]

Also filed in American Hockey, Area Youth Hockey, Hockey Art, Hockey Movies, Jose Theodore, Pond Hockey, Pond Hockey Movie, Shinny, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (4)

These Are Not Your Father's Capitals

17 October, 2008

Among the many marvelous associations we’ll reminisce about from Thursday night, October 16, 2008, years from now, let romance be ascendant. At the Capitol Hill game-watch gathering I attended married women fell into my embrace moments after Michael Nylander’s game-tying goal, and lingered there. Not-so-Platonic kissing accompanied Boyd Gordon’s game-winner.
This was a 10 o’clock hour [...]

Also filed in Gary Bettman, Matt Bradley, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, The Great Old Patrick Division, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (9)

Vienna Chris and His Leap of Faith: A Conversion Story To Warm Your Hockey Heart

16 October, 2008

As conversion stories go, it ranks at the very top. More incredible than Muslim to funadamentalist, libertarian to statist, vegan to butcher. Vienna, Va., this summer was home to the conversion of a lifelong Pittsburgh Penguins’ fan to a Rockin’ the Red Caps’ fanatic.
Imagine.
His name is Chris, he’s 38, he works in federal law enforcement [...]

Also filed in Morning cup-a-joe, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (18)

'Pond Hockey,' the Documentary, Is Coming to D.C.

13 October, 2008

We have it on good authority that ‘Pond Hockey,’ the documentary tracing the game’s outdoor heritage as well as the formation of the annual U.S. Pond Hockey Championships, is on its way to Washington for a single-night screening next month. In fact, it’d be a real good idea to keep open the evening of Monday, [...]

Also filed in American Hockey, Hockey Movies, Hockey Weather, Old Time Hockey, Pond Hockey, Pond Hockey Movie, Shinny, Video Clips | Comments (2)

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