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Blackhawks and Stanley Cup roll in Chicago pride
by Draft Day Suit
posted June 27, 2010 at 8:58pm
For one day, and for a very good reason, I say “Go Hawks!”
The Stanley Cup and recently traded Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Brent Sopel and his wife appeared in today’s Chicago Pride Parade on the Chicago Gay Hockey Association’s float. The As...more
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#WIN Women make Hockey Hall of Fame
by One Sport Voice
posted June 23, 2010 at 7:14pm
Hockey players Angela James and Cammi Granato have been voted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Let’s also not forget that Angela Ruggiero earned her place in the Hockey Hall of Fame as the first brother-sister duo to play pro hockey together.
In most of ...more
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First women elected to Hockey Hall of Fame
by Pretty Tough
posted June 23, 2010 at 3:27pm
The Hockey Hall of Fame is no longer just for men.
Hockey pioneers Cammi Granato and Angela James changed that on Tuesday when they became the first women elected to be enshrined in Toronto. Along with former NHL All-Star Dino Ciccarelli, Granato and Ja...more
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Women’s sports: Visibility matters
by Byline to Finish Line
posted June 11, 2010 at 11:09am
This winter, the worst thing about Canada defeating the U.S. in the women’s Olympic hockey final was that Angela Ruggiero did not win the gold.
Ruggiero is an amazing athlete and has always struck me as genuine, authentic and outspoken. She’s the ty...more
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Blackhawks win long, strange race to the Stanley Cup
by Draft Day Suit
posted June 10, 2010 at 5:28pm
A guest post by Shannon McKarney.
Finally, it’s done. A bizarre invisible goal from the NHL’s leading douchey frat boy slipped in to the net unnoticed by pretty much everybody (including me, since I was asleep) in the first overtime period, and that...more
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Flyers Beat Bruins, Make History In Threes and Fours
by Draft Day Suit
posted May 16, 2010 at 7:26pm
I have never said “Go Flyers” in my life. It pains me to type it. Last night, I texted those words to a black and orange-bleeding friend of mine who has sent me similar props and sympathies in Caps moments both good and bad.
And it was a magic moment...more
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Out with the old: The Igloo Edition
by Draft Day Suit
posted May 13, 2010 at 8:00pm
Mellon Arena, formerly known as Civic Auditorium and Civic Arena, will close at the conclusion of the Pittsburgh Penguin’s season. When the Penguins win Lord Stanley’s Cup (or, shudder to think, get eliminated), it’s lights out for the arena. The tr...more
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Habs flip the script, face Pens in game seven
by Draft Day Suit
posted May 13, 2010 at 3:01pm
A guest post by Shannon McKarney.
Oh, it’s tough, being a Canadian hockey fan.
Half your teams don’t make it to the playoffs in the first place. Two of your teams ended up, in fact, as the second-worst and the absolute worst in the league. Cause,...more
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It’s a Hockey Playing Weekend
by One Sport Voice
posted May 9, 2010 at 6:08pm
Me playing hockey
While it is Stanley Cup Playoff time, other people are also playing hockey.
I’m outside of Denver battling altitude sickness and playing some hockey with about 25 other women’s teams from around the country. This is what sport is...more
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Canadian skater Rochette talks about her mother
by Pretty Tough
posted April 26, 2010 at 10:03pm
Just in time for Mother's Day comes this heart-filled piece of news:
One of the most memorable, and inspirational, stories from the recent Winter Olympics involves Canadian figure skating Joannie Rochette who took to the ice in Vancouver only days after ...more
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Pimped out by my derby sisters
by eRacer X-Files
posted April 23, 2010 at 5:55pm
Rocket 95.1FM is my favorite radio station in Huntsville, and I never miss the Go Fish morning show on the way to work every morning.Fish's sidekick, Ken, was just dumped by his girlfriend this past weekend, and they played the breakup on air. So by Wed...more
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Million Dollar Reality in Girls’ Hockey
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted April 21, 2010 at 5:40pm
Let’s face the truth, - there’s no money in girls’ hockey. No one is going to be signing million dollar, multi-year contracts to play professional women’s hockey any time soon. A few women are able to make a living by playing hockey, but I w...more
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NHL: One Game Is One Game
by Women's Sports Blog
posted April 16, 2010 at 6:13pm
There should be a moratorium on the word 'stun' in sports headlines in instances where one minute's thought would prove otherwise. The NHL playoffs began on Wednesday night, and Thursday morning the Sports Illustrated headline read "Senators Stun Pengui...more
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Hockey Arena Trivia – Playoffs Edition
by Draft Day Suit
posted April 15, 2010 at 10:02am
Mellon Arena
With the NHL playoffs getting underway, and those of us in Pittsburgh feeling nostalgic about the Penguins’ last season in the Igloo, it occurred to me that all the Eastern Conference playoff teams are in newer arenas. Okay, so all the a...more
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Hockey Coach Goes Ape Shit (VIDEO!)
by Draft Day Suit
posted March 30, 2010 at 10:41pm
Jim Playfair, the coach of the Abbotsford Heat (an AHL team) totally lost his shit during a game against the Hamilton Bulldogs after one of his players was kicked out of the game.
I have very little to add, but this is some good television – or interne...more
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No Miracle In Minneapolis
by Women's Sports Blog
posted March 22, 2010 at 9:12pm
It's a struggle to know what to write about a hockey game that seemed headed for a fourth overtime before a lucky tip with fifteen seconds to go sent one team sprawling in exaltation and the other sagging in tearful disbelief. It's a struggle to know ho...more
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One boy’s perspective about youth sports
by One Sport Voice
posted March 20, 2010 at 12:17pm
A colleague sent me this video of a young Canadian hockey player describing his “magic hockey helmet”. I thought I’d pass it along…enjoy!
Speaking of helmets…. stay tuned to this blog for upcoming information on the first-ever Mayo Clinic Ice H...more
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These people at Smuckers are just f&*%^ers
by After Atalanta
posted March 19, 2010 at 8:52pm
I know that this story is already out there but it deserves more discourse. Plus it allows me to think again about the Olympics which seem so far away now, especially in this very odd 60+ degree pre-spring weather I am experiencing.So the story is that Jo...more
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Johnny Come Lately
by From A Left Wing
posted March 14, 2010 at 3:24pm
I've recently become obsessed with Johnny Weir - I'm late to this bandwagon. As it happens, the first sport I followed with any seriousness was figure skating - but I've ignored the men's competitions especially in the past few years. My bad, because We...more
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