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Game #78 – Jets vs. Hawks Douchebag Du Jour: Canada’s Team

By Sam Fels March 29, 2018 0

You know it’s coming. With only two of the seven Canadian teams making the playoffs (two too many, clearly), there will be a movement to adopt either one as the representation of the entire nation to claim what they feel is still rightfully theirs. Never mind no Canadian team has made the Final since the […]

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Thanks For Stopping By, Stress

By Sam Fels February 22, 2018 0

Somewhere in the second period of last night’s horrifically dramatic and exciting, if not brilliantly played, Gold Medal game between the US and Canada, I had a pretty sobering thought: This is most likely the last hockey game I’ll have any emotional investment in until October. Oh sure, there’s the minimal emotional investment of rooting against someone

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Ok, Now Export Molson Dry To This Country

By sgadmin February 23, 2014 0

It’s finally over. A tournament that will basically be remembered for ruthless efficiency more than any classic hockey has come to a close. And it ended with Canada on top, which it always should have. Sure, it would have been more fun if Sweden could have played them with more than a center and a […]

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You Can’t Escape Big Brother

By Sam Fels February 21, 2014 0

Quick reactions to the semifinals today. We’ll start with the bigger game to us, and that’s the battle of the 49th. Those of us here in the land of guns and poor public education love to big up our chances and talk a big game, but every hockey fan knows in their heart that Canada […]

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You Can't Escape Big Brother

By sgadmin February 21, 2014 0

Quick reactions to the semifinals today. We’ll start with the bigger game to us, and that’s the battle of the 49th. Those of us here in the land of guns and poor public education love to big up our chances and talk a big game, but every hockey fan knows in their heart that Canada […]

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Fancy Seeing You Here: Olympic Semifinal Preview And Thread

By Sam Fels February 20, 2014 0

If this is to be the last Olympics with the NHL involved, I suppose there’s decent symmetry in having the last two Gold Medal games be the semifinal match ups. It should make for a pretty good morning for hockey fans, assuming you can get up early enough or get off work or watch at […]

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Should The NHL Stay In The Olympics?

By Sam Fels February 20, 2014 0

While we’re poised for a semifinal day that really will be a feast of hockey, the other side of the debate is also clear after John Tavares’s injury. It would be an even bigger howl if the Islanders were in playoff contention, so I guess the NHL dodged a quarter of a bullet there. The […]

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Wear The Grudge Like A Crown: Olympic Quarterfinal Wrap

By Sam Fels February 19, 2014 0

Everything pretty much went to script, and now the Olympics gets the treat of having what are probably the two leading international rivalries in its semifinal. Should make for quite the morning on Friday. Let’s run through the action. Sweden 5 – Slovenia 0: Took the Swedes longer than I thought and Slovenia actually had […]

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Atop The Sugar Pile – Olympic Preliminary Round Edition

By Sam Fels February 17, 2014 0

Day off from the tournament today, so it seems like a good time to apply our semi-regular status update. The Dizzying Highs Phil Kessel – I haven’t watched every Olympic game, so I could be ignoring some others, but what I have seen there doesn’t seem to be a more dynamic offensive player than Kessel […]

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Morning Links 2.12.14

By Joe DeTolve February 12, 2014 0

That was an epic: USAHOCKEY Pros and Cons of larger ice: Chicago Tribune InfoGraphic New Goals: Chicago Suntimes If he isnt, I know someone who is: CBC Who will be in goal for Canada? Sportsnet.Ca Quick decison for USA ? ESPN Darryl Katz did what Charles Wang couldn’t: NHL.Com