settling in to the Caps game tonight, I’m proud to say I’ve watched all the locally televised games this year — 3 for 3, and I listened to them beat up on the Canucks on the radio (crappy AM radio, no less). I’ve got tix for six regular season games locked in, which is about [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘NHL’
October 11, 2008
my favorite new commercial
it’s local — very local — but it’s good. Coach Boudreau is looking for a new car, and he needs a REALLY BIG CUP HOLDER:
and so the Mercedes ML has a Stanley-Cup sized cup holder pop-up in the rear luggage compartment… made me LOL…
that’s good stuff. a description of Coach’s debut [...]
October 11, 2008
reasons to keep your head up
I figured my boys might like this one… this was posted under the heading Does anyone else miss Belak?.
Leafs are 1-0-0. WOOT.
June 15, 2008
Blood Money: Incentives for Violence in NHL Hockey
– the name of an economics paper by Haisken-DeNew and Vorell (two Germans); and surprisingly no mention of whether anyone has done similar studies of European hockey.
Tyler Cowen summarized the paper thusly:
In other words, there are substantial incentives for violence in hockey.
Well, duh.
But not just strategic incentives or marketing incentives, this study demonstrates that there [...]
June 6, 2008
who won the Cup?
yeah, that’s how bad of a hockey fan I am. I was looking at the blog stats and the recent hits are all on my “Best Hockey Songs of All Time” thread… so I figured I should check where the Stanley Cup Finals stand, and it turns out they were decided yesterday.
now, I [...]
April 23, 2008
there has to be a morning after…
so I get home from the Caps losing Game 7, only to be greeted by “The Day After” (aka “TDA”) on SciFi.com (also a channel on basic cable). it is well known that if I find TDA on TV, I can’t possibly turn away — it’s burned into me as a result of seeing [...]
April 22, 2008
rock the red
I’m heading downtown to see if I can find last minute Caps tix; if not, I’ll watch the game at the Turtle or Clyde’s or something… wish me luck.
April 21, 2008
Best Hockey Songs of All Time #1: Fifty Mission Cap
Lyrics:
Bill Barilko disappeared that summer,
he was on a fishing trip.
The last goal he ever scored
won the Leafs the cup
They didn’t win another until 1962,
the year he was discovered.
I stole this from a hockey card,
I keeped tucked up under
my fifty mission cap, I worked it in
to look like that
From Wikipedia:
The song’s lyrics describe the mysterious disappearance [...]
April 7, 2008
Best Hockey Songs of All Time #3: Lonely End of the Rink
Some say this song is about Gordon (lead singer, The Tragically Hip) and his brother the goalie (“I had the dream of having no room” to shoot and score…); I read somewhere else that it was about two people stuck in a relationship, feeling abandoned (“like, if you need me you’re on your own”). [...]
April 6, 2008
Best Hockey Songs of All Time #4: Heaven Is A Better Place Today
Heaven is a Better Place today was written as a tribute to Dan Snyder, a center for the Atlanta Thrashers who died in a car accident at age 25. He was thrown from the Ferrari 360 Modena driven by his teammate Dany Heatley after hitting a wall.
The song was a reflection of the way [...]
