09 September, 2010

Category Archives: Hockey Movies

Movie Trailers Inception Style

21 August, 2010

One of the latest fads on YouTube is mashing up the music and/or the dialog from the Inception movie trailer with scenes from other movies to make a new tralier for that movie. Like these for Caddyshack, Star Wars, Toy Story 3, and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. But after this one, we stopped [...]

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Snapshots of a Blogger’s Season, 2009-10

18 June, 2010

[Hockey season's over. Herewith, 25 of my favorite, most personal moments covering hockey in Washington during the 2009-10 campaign, relayed in no particular order.] (25) Not one, not two, but three blizzards buried Washington in the heart of hockey season. Blizzard no. 2 took out my home’s power for fully three days, but my beer [...]

Also filed in American Hockey, American Hockey League, Blogging, Bruce Boudreau, Ed Frankovic, Forgotten Miracle, Giant Center, Hershey Bears, Hockey Towns, Hockey Weather, Jess Mikula, John Carlson, John Walton, Lisa Hillary, Mathieu Perreault, Media, Michelle Scalise, Mike 'Doc' Emerick, National Hockey League, New media, OFB Interviews, Shinny, Tara Wheeler, Ted Starkey, The Patriot News, Tim Leone, Washington Capitals | Comments (2)

Hockey Olympians Still Forgotten at the White House

26 March, 2010

A little context, perhaps, for the violence and threats reported in the news this week directed at Washington lawmakers: recently the White House denied a request by Minnesota State Senator David Tomassoni to honor the 1960 United States gold medal-winning Olympic hockey team at the people’s house, in this the 50th anniversary year of its [...]

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Maybe . . . Just Maybe . . . NBC Wishes It Had Run Hockey Last Night

22 February, 2010

Before we address last night’s U.S.-Canada showdown, a word of hello from the Capitals’ captain to the former Capitals’ quitter, at Olympic center ice, in Super Sunday’s first big game: Can’t watch that too often, can we? The only way to improve on that Marlboro Man moment would have been if Jagr were still dating [...]

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Chance To Look Real Red, White and Blue Good for These Winter Olympics

10 February, 2010

My filmmaker friends Tommy Haines and Andrew Sherburne recently placed my review of their terrific new documentary, ‘Forgotten Miracle,’ on the film’s website. I’m beyond flattered. More importantly, if you haven’t seen it, get over to the site and add it to your DVD library, even if you consider yourself only a moderate sports fan. [...]

Also filed in American Hockey, Forgotten Miracle, Hockey Art, Hockey Legends, Olympic hockey, USA Hockey | Comments (0)

Forgotten No Longer: The 1960 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team

21 December, 2009

Imagine setting out to document in film a historic sports achievement which by virtue of its time period offers only minimal archival footage. A great, great story to be told without much in the way of camera-eye evidence. Such was the dilemma-challenge confronted by Andrew Sherburne and Tommy Haines, makers of the celebrated 2007 documentary [...]

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A Forgotten Miracle Comes to Artistic Life

24 November, 2009

For hockey fans, it’s like a Christmas present received a month early: Andrew Sherburne and Tommy Haines, makers of the 2008 documentary ‘Pond Hockey,’ have reapplied their filmmaking skills and love of hockey to another puck project, ‘Forgotten Miracle.’ It tells the tale of the first true American Miracle on Ice — the 1960 U.S. Olympians [...]

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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.

Also filed in Hockey Heroes, Hockey Legends, Miracle, Miracle On Ice, USA Hockey | Comments (5)

Black Friday Blues

28 November, 2008

It’s Black Friday.  You’ve thought about heading out to the mall looking for bargains on Christmas presents, but you don’t want to be another small fish in the sea of humanity, fighting for parking spaces, and standing in long lines. OFB has your solution.  First head over to Zazzle to pick up some OFB loot: [...]

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A Monday Night at the Movies Folks Won't Soon Forget

18 November, 2008

If nothing else I’ve learned this about our magnificent sport over the years: hockey enriches the lives of its players and fans, but the people in it actually have an uncanny ability to change lives. Mine got changed, again, on Monday night, in a small Northwest Washington movie theater filled with hockey lovers bearing witness [...]

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