Topic: Hockey

October 3, 2012

Exclusive Television Preview: Sean Avery and Ryan Callahan Hate Your Clothes

Chris Collision

The NHL lockout looks likely to go on for some time. Based on this (imaginary) pilot, the exceedingly nasty and fraught fashion critique television show featuring unemployed NHL buds Sean Avery and Ryan Callahan may not last very long at all. But have you ever had an imaginary television show? Like, even one episode of one?

September 25, 2012

The Captains In Summer, Part Two

Chris Collision

The second and final part of our look into what NHL captains are doing without NHL hockey finds some players becoming vampires, others eating cheese with weird hair in it, and a goodly percentage working on recuperating from concussions. The usual offseason stuff, in other words, but with no actual season in the immediate future.

September 24, 2012

The Captains In Summer, Part One

Chris Collision

With the NHL locked out for, let's say, forever, the league's foremost leaders of men will have to find new ways to pass their time. These are probably not those, but considering this question may be the last hockey any of us get for some time.

August 17, 2012

The Disabled List: The Todd Bertuzzi Knock-Out Club

Jesse Ruddock

Todd Bertuzzi is famous for harming people as a hockey player. But credit where it's due: one of the NHL's baddest did come up with a very good way to nearly kill a (female) 11-year-old goalie back when he was just a minor league star/budding sociopath.

July 16, 2012

Theo Fleury's Pure Country

Eric Nusbaum

What is Theo Fleury doing singing a bunch of hokey-ish country songs on stage in the same arena he used to light up as a NHL star? Finding his voice, refusing to be quiet, and other admirable things, it turns out.

June 8, 2012

The Cup is in the Goddamn Building

Eric Nusbaum

The Stanley Cup Finals come to Los Angeles, and with them the elusive  prospect of a fan's perfect moment. But so much reality stands in the way.

June 6, 2012

In Search of Hockey

Tim Marchman

A non-fan makes a pilgrimage to a local sports bar, in search of beer and the secret to what he has always missed about hockey. The beer helps, somewhat.

April 30, 2012

Yakkin' About Hockey: More Sun O))) in the Monitors, Please

Chris Collision
April 27, 2012

Your Backup Goaltenders of Round Two of the Stanley Cup Playoffs

Eric Nusbaum

Because nobody cares about anything more than they care aboout backup goalies, a brief farewell to those eliminated, and an  almost equally brief mazel tov to those who remain. 

April 23, 2012

The Mayor Goes to War

David Hill

Cash-strapped communities routinely pay through the nose to keep a pro-sports franchise in town. The justification has always been that a pro team brings other business and economic development. Studies have shown that this argument is false. Places like Newark want a professional sports team because it offers them a source of civic pride.  But can Newark afford sports?