17 March, 2010

Category Archives: Hockey Heroes

How Hockey Blogging Introduces You to Heroes

8 March, 2010

Two moments last week, both occurring off the ice, reminded me of the greatness of our game, and my particular great fortune in being located where I am in covering it.
I arrived in Hershey last Thursday morning with the simplest of objectives: snapping a few pictures of the Bears’ annual outdoor practice. Mostly I wanted [...]

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Olympic Hockey To Remember — and Perpetuate

1 March, 2010

Just how good was hockey in Vancouver’s Olympics, and what should the future of the Games hold in terms of the NHL’s participation? We share our post-Olympics thoughts.
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For the U.S., these Olympics were anything but a failure — across the board and most particularly in hockey. Not only did the Yanks push the gold medal [...]

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A Miracle Acknowledged by Today’s American Hockey Stars

22 February, 2010

Up in Hershey this past weekend our blogger colleague Eric McErlain of Off Wing Opinion  joined us in a patriotic questioning of the Hershey Bears’ John Carlson. Carlson of course etched his name in American hockey lore last month, sudden-death silencing Canadians in Saskatoon and delivering the American Under-20 team gold. With the arrival of [...]

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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 [...]

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A Call to Remedying Action for the Red Army

30 January, 2010

No prolonged setup needed for this tale of terror: Hershey Bears’ fan Jason Hartle, afflicted with cerebral palsy, attended a Bears’ game at Giant Center back in December, returned home that night in his specially equipped van, only to awaken the next morning and discover it stolen. Police in his community have informed Jason’s family [...]

Also filed in American Hockey League, Hershey Bears, Hockey Towns, John Walton, Washington Capitals | Comments (1)

A Defense Pair’s Conflict of Colors

17 January, 2010

The best-laid plans . . .
At the start of this week I had ahead of me the prospect of one of the more appealing visits to Hershey, Pennsylvania, I believed I’d ever make. It was the return home to Hershey weekend for American hockey hero John Carlson. But as Joe Murphy’s law would have it, the [...]

Also filed in American Hockey, American Hockey League, Hershey Bears, Hockey Legends, IIHF, John Carlson, Karl Alzner, WJC, Washington Capitals | Comments (1)

Images in the Immediacy of Global Triumph

10 January, 2010

Now this is the way to end a special week for the Washington Capitals and their prospects — party pics of a celebrating John Carlson and his gold medal-winning American teammates up in Saskatoon. The party was thrown by the players’ parents. Hockey fans in Washington and Hershey should delight in the week that was. [...]

Also filed in American Hockey, Hershey Bears, John Carlson, Prospects, USA Hockey, WJC, Washington Capitals | Comments (4)

Washington Needs a Night To Honor Its New Hockey Hero

8 January, 2010

(An Open Letter to the Owner)
Mr. Leonsis,
I saw you briefly in the victorious locker room at Verizon Center last night, so I know that you saw and heard what I did when the in-game entertainment crew shared with the Red Army footage of John Carlson’s gold-medal-winning goal for the United States from Tuesday night. It [...]

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A Winter Tuesday Night for Washington Hockey Heroes

6 January, 2010

This has a nice ring to it: John Carlson, Canada-killer.
The atmosphere in Verizon Center Tuesday night was stupendous and surreal. And that was only partly because of the sudden announcement of Alexander Ovechkin as the Capitals’ 14th captain in team history.
My all-time favorite chant enjoyed a fresh re-birthing at the Phone Booth last night: USA! [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Entry Draft, George McPhee, Hershey Bears, John Carlson, USA Hockey, WJC, Washington Capitals, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (14)

Meet Herb Driscoll of America's Heartland, Eyewitness to the Miracle on Ice

22 February, 2009

Framed in the living room of his St. Albans, Missouri, home are tickets Herb Driscoll and business associates used to attend a very special hockey game in Lake Placid, New York, on February 22, 1980. That Driscoll made it inside the Olympic hockey arena that fateful Friday night is a small miracle in itself.

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