Archive for the ‘Hockey’ Category
Happy birthday, Marty
Marty Brodeur celebrated his 34th birthday today while visiting my home town here in Raleigh. As a gift the Carolina Hurricanes ran him out of the net with 6 goals, shutting out the New Jersey Devils during the first game of the second round of the playoffs. Me and the girls were there in full [...]
NHLPA sells exclusive license to EA
In perhaps unsurprising news, the NHLPA, the players union representing the interests of the players in the NHL, inked an exclusive deal with insipid video game creator EA for an exclusive license to use the names of NHL players in video games. Here’s some context from the story Shortly before the end of the [...]
Witnessing Kevyn Adams’ first career hat trick
Alert the presses, it’s a post that doesn’t have anything to do with the Xbox 360 (though I’ll sully it by mentioning that among other things I picked up NHL2K6 for the 360 yesterday). I haven’t talked about hockey much this season, mostly because of the 360 but also because I’m frankly astounded at my [...]
Let the hockey commence!
NHL hockey is finally back. I refuse to even think about the arbitration period and the lockout. It’s over. Let’s just get out there and play some hockey. Tonight was the preseason home opener for the Hurricanes against the hated Crapitals, and what a glorious start to a season. To be honest, I haven’t been this [...]
Bravo NHL
Congratulations to the NHL for earning the distinction of being the only major professional sport in North America to cancel an entire season over a labor dispute. Way to gain the mind share of the public you’re trying to cater to. A public who, for those of you not paying too much attention, weren’t overly [...]
We won’t have hockey
I “asided” the news about the offer by the NHLPA to the NHL a short while ago. Earlier this week we received the NHL’s response and counter-proposal. Bettman remarked: The players’ proposal to reduce current contracts is a big-time, significant and meaningful move. It is essential that we have reductions in that order of magnitude to [...]
Welcome to the Hockey Friendly South
Last night was the exciting game 7 — a relative rarity in itself — in the Stanley Cup finals. Tampa Bay pulled off a quality win despite a momentum-crushing call against them midway through the third period that gave Calgary a power-play which they capitalized on to make it a 1 goal game. This was [...]
Poor, poor Rod
I almost feel bad for him. The Hurricanes’ Rod Brind’Amour reviews Shrek 2. Here’s a little snippet to give you a taste, with questionable English highlighted for your pleasure: This sequel has a lot to live up to, following the enormous succes of the original, and judged by the crowds at the theater this weekend, [...]
