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Category Archives: Vancouver Olympics

Lisa Hillary Sits Down with Ted Leonsis

13 March, 2010

In a two-part interview series Comcast Sportsnet’s Lisa Hillary visited with Capitals’ majority owner Ted Leonsis this week and honed in on some real meat and potatoes issues with him: his satisfaction level with where the Caps are in the league and locally, the participation of NHLer’s in the Olympics, past and future, his role [...]

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Puck Daddy, at the Olympics: It Was Like ‘A Roman Orgy’

10 March, 2010

The story arrived on my eyes like a first centerfold does to the adolescent away at summer camp — an “emergency” shipment of condoms was headed to Vancouver during the second week of the Olympics. This after 7,000 Olympians had already been provided an initial cargo load of 100,000 prophylactics. At that moment I knew [...]

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Suddenly I Want To Grow a Mullet

3 March, 2010

You may have heard — in Pittsburgh last night, the hometown hero was anything but. Sidney Crosby, dagger driver into the hockey heart of America this past Sunday, was accorded a villian’s welcome at Mellon Arena before the Penguins’ 3-2 victory over Buffalo. Ryan Miller, meanwhile, the visiting goaltender, was showered with cheers. Suddenly I [...]

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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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Shaone Morrisonn on Sidney, Visiting Buffalo in Winter

1 March, 2010

We’ve been impressed all season long with the commitment of local radio the Fan 106.7 to covering hockey, and doing so enthusiastically, and their on-air personalities were at it again in evening drive today. Holden Kushner had all of the callers to his program first affirm their hatred of Sidney Crosby before moving on to [...]

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Almost 30 Million Sets of American Eyeballs on Hockey Yesterday

1 March, 2010

Steve Lepore of Puck the Media offers a compelling contextualization for the American viewership numbers for yesterday’s gold medal game:  You have to go all the way back to Lake Placid 30 years ago to find numbers better than yesterday’s for the NBC broadcast. “Sunday afternoon’s USA vs. Canada gold medal hockey game, that NBC’s [...]

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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. Andrew 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 [...]

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Here’s Hoping Canadians Become Gold Medal Fans Again

28 February, 2010

Two, maybe three days a year max, I “hate” Canada — when U.S. national hockey teams face those of Canada. I put hate in quotes because I’m incapable of deep-seated antipathy toward my neighbors to the North. It’s a beautiful country filled with beautiful people, and it is the true home of hockey. Canada is [...]

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The Vindication Games for Ron Wilson

27 February, 2010

Perhaps you recall, as I did, the near universal reaction to the announcement of Ron Wilson as head coach of the 2010 United States Olympic hockey team last April: a collective yawn. By the spring of 2009 Wilson had accumulated a Larry Brown-like pedigree of mediocre coaching journeyman, as well as perceived failure with  talented [...]

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Gold Medal Girls Gone Wild

26 February, 2010

Your team just won the gold medal in hockey. What do you do? You guzzle crap beer and try to drive a Zamboni, of course! Sounds like fun to me (except for the crap beer part; it’s gotta be the good stuff). However, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was not amused and wants an explanation. For their part, the Canadian women’s hockey team apologized.

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