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Video- Steve Carell Talks Goaltending With Tom Green
by Paul on 06/13/14 at 09:29 AM ET
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Steve Carell discusses his goaltending career with Tom Green (an actual serious discussion).
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Talk About Paying For A Bad Hit
by Paul on 06/07/14 at 08:04 AM ET
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from John Agar of Mlive,
A federal judge has upheld a Swiss court’s $1.1 million judgment against former Detroit Red Wing Kevin Miller whose hit from behind in a Switzerland league ended the career of another player.
Miller, who played for the Red Wings and several other NHL teams, along with the Grand Rapids Griffins and Michigan State University, injured Andrew McKim, a Canadian, during a 2000 championship game.
Miller checked McKim in the head and neck after McKim took a shot on goal. McKim fell forward and struck his head on the ice. He was hospitalized several weeks with a concussion and other injuries.
Allianz Suisse Versicherungs-Gesellschaft, a Swiss insurance company that covered McKim, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids to enforce the judgment it obtained in Switzerland in 2010.
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Shirley Fischler Battled Media Barriers
by Paul on 05/31/14 at 12:24 PM ET
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from Stan Fischler at the Daily Freeman,
This will come as a shock to feminists, male journalists and assorted others who care about the right to write for a living.
My tale begins a half-century ago when hockey writers were given a ticket for every Rangers game at Madison Square Garden. Nothing wrong -- or startling -- about that. Right?
Wrong.
There was a message clearly printed on every ticket stub: LADIES NOT PERMITTED IN THE PRESS BOX.
Incredible, but true.
I mention this because in the days and weeks following my wife Shirley’s death (May 13), a number of articles appeared about the manner in which she led the battle to erase that form of media discrimination against women.
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A Faster Ice Resurfacing Machine
by Paul on 05/26/14 at 09:58 AM ET
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from Tesla Rodriquez of the Winona Daily News,
A Winona-area resident just finished the prototype of an invention that just might push — or shave — the Zamboni off the hockey rink.
Buffalo County resident Paul Van Eijl said his invention, which he calls the “Ice Jet,” will do the ice resurfacing job of the classic machine much quicker — about a minute or so — using GPS coordinates to control multiple machines at once.
It won’t need a driver, will be electrically powered and will recycle the ice collected by melting it in the machine and using the water to resurface the hockey rink. His invention isn’t on the market yet, though a prototype has been enough to generate a phone call from the reality television show “Shark Tank,” which highlights inventors and entrepreneurs hoping to make it big.
“It’s really doing the same thing (as a Zamboni),” Van Eijl said as he stood next to his prototype on a recent day. “You’re just basically making it eight times as efficient.”
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Hockey Is England’s Game?
by Paul on 05/24/14 at 09:22 AM ET
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from Lance Hornby of the Toronto Sun,
The mother country that gave Canada warm beer, Coronation Street and Benedict Cumberbatch, can now lay claim to originating and exporting our cool national sport.
Yes, there's some new, compelling and no doubt controversial evidence that hockey came from over 'ome and was played, with basic rules, much earlier than 1875 in Montreal, generally accepted as the first official match.
Before you dismiss it all as hum-buggery (how many English players have won the Hart Trophy, anyway?), check the extensive work put in by a trio of hockey historians in Sweden and Canada. They will present their findings Saturday at the annual meeting of the Society for International Hockey Research in Penetanguishene, Ont.
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A Man And His Hockey Sweater
by Paul on 05/04/14 at 10:11 AM ET
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from Gary Buiso of the New York Post,
It was March 26, 1989, and a furious electrical fire in Britton Fisher’s Brooklyn Heights apartment building forced him to make a split-second decision — what was the one thing he would save from the inferno?
“My Rangers jersey — and I held it tight,” he said.
Overcome by smoke, he was helped by a cop to a fire escape. But as firefighters battled the blaze, they broke the building’s heavy glass windows.
So Fisher flipped the jersey over his head.
The shards bounced off like rejected hockey pucks.
“That jersey saved my life,” said Fisher, 51, who has since outgrown the “magical,” size medium shirt. The home jersey now hangs in a closet in his Boerum Hill home.
But since 1997, Fisher has been paying tribute to the Rangers by snapping photos of himself in jerseys on all seven continents and 35 countries.
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City Of Montreal Concerned About Violence
by Paul on 05/04/14 at 09:37 AM ET
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from the CP at TSN,
With tensions already running high between the hometown Canadiens and their arch rival Boston Bruins, city officials say they're staying vigilant to ensure the passion doesn't morph into mayhem on Montreal streets.
The city has garnered a reputation during recent NHL playoff runs for its jubilant, spontaneous celebrations that occasionally deteriorate into rampages highlighted by vandalism, looting and violence.
In the only Canadian city hosting playoff hockey this year and with the team's biggest rivals in town, authorities say they're ready for anything with the series tied 1-1 heading back to Montreal.
Anie Samson, a member of the city's executive committee, said the administration is prepared ahead of Tuesday's Game 3 at the Bell Centre.
"We are concerned about (potential problems), but we are working with the police and we have a plan," said the city councillor in charge of public security. "We are ready and we hope it's going to work."
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Stanley Cup Playoff Odds
by Paul on 05/01/14 at 03:55 PM ET
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Provided by Bovada,
Odds to win the 2014 Stanley Cup
Boston Bruins 5/2
Chicago Blackhawks 15/4
Pittsburgh Penguins 6/1
Anaheim Ducks 13/2
Los Angeles Kings 7/1
Montreal Canadiens 8/1
New York Rangers 10/1
Minnesota Wild 12/1
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Perhaps Some Research Is Needed
by Paul on 04/29/14 at 07:47 AM ET
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from William Douglas of The Color Of Hockey,
In a weekend column in The Los Angeles Times, Sandy Banks wrote that it’s time for Los Angeles Clippers’ Donald Sterling to give up ownership of his National Basketball Association team in the wake of recordings on which he purportedly makes racist comments about black people. Banks offers a novel solution for Sterling if he wants to stay in the sports business.
“Let the real estate magnate and Clippers owner take his millions and buy a hockey team,” she wrote. “Then he won’t have to worry about black superstars showing up for games on his girlfriend’s arm.”
Nice.
Reading that line saddened me, angered me, and made me think that maybe I haven’t been doing my job with this blog. Her suggestion that Sterling “buy a hockey team” is a zinger, a real humdinger, perhaps designed to add a little levity to a serious problem. The only problem is that if Banks paid a little more attention to hockey maybe she’d know that the zinger has lost its zing - that hockey isn’t exclusively white anymore on the ice, in the stands, in the broadcast booth, or in the owner’s box.
With one paragraph, Banks bought into a stereotype. Hockey has the hat trick – a feat in which one player scores three goals in a single game. Banks scored a double negative by suggesting that Sterling and his alleged racist ways could find a safe haven in the overwhelming whiteness of hockey.
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Shnarped Sees Big Growth Since Dragons’ Den Victory
by Paul on 04/02/14 at 12:12 PM ET
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Since speaking with the Shnarped Hockey guys last October – right before they very successfully pitched to the Dragons’ Den - their fan engagement platform has really taken off. Shnarped connects fans to their favorite hockey teams and players, and has 100 NHL players plus 1000 NHL prospects using the platform. And now this hockey season, more fans have received messages from NHL players on Shnarped than on Twitter – pretty impressive.
As founders of a charity called Hockey Players for Kids, Dustin Sproat and Kyle Hagel (who currently plays for the AHL’s Portland Pirates) recognized a problem with how fans were trying to communicate with players. They saw lots of positive messages being directed towards players on Facebook, and lots of negative messages directed at players on Twitter. Obviously players appreciate the positive notes, but Facebook isn’t designed for interaction with strangers and so most of these messages would go unanswered.
Shnarped solves this problem by providing a positive, youth-friendly community for fan interaction. A top-notch news and stats database provides up to the minute information about any and all players (making it great for the fantasy hockey guru), and the players that are ‘verified’ on the platform can very easily respond to their loyal fans via their core interactive feature, the pound.
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