Do you remember the feeling you got when you were a little kid on Christmas Eve? That excited, jumpy, nervous, happy-as-hell, can't-wait-until-it-finally-gets-here delirious feeling? I'm glad there's old-timer hockey, with the start of a new season every year about this time, to replicate that feeling for grown-up's. The W's new season starts tonight. And yes, …
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Shinny Armageddon
Is there anything worse in recreational hockey, (I mean ANYTHING), than having only one goalie show up? This is a rhetorical question of course because anyone who has ever slapped on skates at 11:00 PM on a -18 degree night in January (in a rink that feels much colder than that) will tell you that …
The Orange Team Winter 2010 – A Team for the Ages
Perhaps the last part of the title of this post should read "...- A Team of Old-Agers" given the way we played last night. But I digress. This isn't about last night's game, with it's massive comeback derailed just short of a tie in the dying seconds. This is about the Orange team, a great …
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It’s About More Than Just the Hockey…
Heard in the dressing room following my game in the WOHL last Thursday night (and proving, with a chuckle, that truth is stranger than fiction): Story #1: As a youngster, one of my teammates indicated at the age of 9, he let off a bunch of firecrackers in his closet at home. He had taped …
Chasing Larry
I felt great before last Thursday night's game. I didn't over-eat at dinner, had a quick nap before the game, went hard in the warm-up and felt like all the ingredients were in the mix for having a great go with the dreaded white team, the team Larry plays for. However, in the end, the …
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