With the 20th Olympic Winter Games now completed I’ve been thinking about the men’s ice hockey tournment in Torino. Personally, I think that it was a great tournament (Canada’s loss notwithstanding) on it’s own terms. My concern was with the way it was co-ordinated with the professional hockey season. Fitting the NHL season into the […]
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New NHL Season
5 October 2005 – 9:47 pm
As the phrase goes, “Hockey’s back.” I watched the first TSN broadcast of the new season tonight. My technical knowledge of hockey is so limited it’s not worth discussing. But, I did enjoy the play I watched, and the new rules appeared to work very well. The two line passes, in particular, were really exciting. […]
NHL Almost Back In Business
14 July 2005 – 11:41 pm
After a ridiculously long soap opera of a labour dispute it seems the NHL and its Players’ Association finally agreed to finish it. Now they just have to make it official with some votes next week, but at this point that’s clearly just a formality. I have nothing really to add to the story. All […]
The Woes of Professional Hockey
21 February 2005 – 9:15 pm
I’ve never been a fan (in the literal sense of the word) of professional hockey, but I have to admit I would watch now and then if the NHL was playing this year. (It may be the Canadian in me, but it’s my opinion that athletic endeavour is best served cold and with a touque.) […]