Walking down to the local pub, I realized how nervous I felt about the unknown. The feeling in my stomach felt like a championship game when I was coaching. You prepared for this moment, put all the best players together as lines and knew once the puck dropped you had no control over the outcome. You [...]
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It’s late at night and I’m just getting back from the celebration of the Canada vs. USA Women’s Gold Medal Game in which Canada defeated the US 2-0. I’m not going to report on what went on in the game as I know all you good Canadian fans watched and cheered, because I could hear [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Let’s not push the panic button yet, just because Team Canada needed to go to the shoot-out to secure the win over the trap-e-zoid Swiss team. Sure Canada was not at the top of their game, but the Grade “A” scoring opportunities alone were so lop sided it [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson I’ve been sitting here thinking about what has happened to hockey with the violent tendencies and disrespect for fellow players. The Patrice Cormier incident was the most recent and as I watch the hit to the jaw of Mikael Tam and then the subsequent convulsions of Tam as [...]
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Written by: “The Icelander” For a change of pace, the Icelander is going off-road here (the Icelander is The IceMan’s blog-editor…oh, and his wife too). Instead of the usual observations of the hockey game, the Icelander comments on those that call themselves professional sports, in this case hockey, TV journalists. In particular I speak of the TV interviewers. [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson So what is it about a fan that brings him or her together, on a united front, with a common purpose? What does it really look like and how does it feel? There seems to be no age qualifier, as you will see from infants to great grandparents, [...]
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