Seen here in a short gif: last night when Pittsburgh Penguin captain Sidney Patrick Crosby lost his stick. He kicked the puck away and went to his team’s bench (lucky, it’s right behind him). The equipment staff handed him one. Not sure it’s a stick or its his stick. Crosby continued to play without missing a beat.
Talking about preparedness.
Pittsburgh Penguin lost 4-3 to Panthers.
It’s rare that New Yorker writes about an ice hockey player. Here is a pretty detailed one.
Golfer’s sticks …
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Fairytale happens all the time.
New York Islanders is a professional ice hockey team based on Long Island that was founded in 1972 and went on to win four consecutive Stanley Cup championships from 1980 to 1983. Clark Gillies and Bobby (Robert Glen) Bourne were teammates and won the four Cup, the holy grail of professional ice hockey together. As if it were not enough, his son Justin Bourne played professional ice hockey and married his daughter Brianna Gillies.
My maternal grandparents met through their fathers too. His father went to Shanghai for business in 1931 and met with her uncle – after publically disowned her father, she was living with her uncle instead. The two men were close business associates in Beijing, then called Peking. When he learnt the son was recently widowed, he sent his private tutor to the hotel to propose the marriage. And insisted to host the grand ceremony the following summer.
My parents met on the basketball court in the military in 1950s and married in 1959 in Beijing.
Chinese team is in red … Are they there to play or being the goons to fight?
He’s the third Swedish player being conducted into the ice hockey NHL Hall of Fame this year. Looking at him, like looking at a Viking – maybe he’s. Here is a video of him fooling around with the matures. Sweden issued stamps to honor him. USA has far to many ‘heroes’ to honor.
The Czech player Hasek also became the Hall of Famer this year. Pat LaFontaine who looked really old, lavished glorious at Hasek at length.
The best American player Mike Modano who cried a lot while giving the acceptance speech was also inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Hasek is from the Czechoslovakia. How he started ice hockey:
They held a tryout for 5-year-old boys and my father took me there. I didn’t even have real skates. I had those blades that you screwed onto the soles of your shoes, but I was tall, and the 9-year-olds didn’t have a goalie, so they put me in with them and thats where I fell in love with the game of hockey.
On tv tonight, he tells the female reporter, with Schwarzeneggerish accent and marble in his mouth, that when he was drafted by NHL in 1983, he didn’t know until someone told him. He asked:
“What does that mean?”
He retired in 2012 and was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2014. He played his last season for the KHL.
In the 1980s, the majority of NHL players were Canadians, 80% or even higher. Then the league started recruiting from Sweden, Finland, Germany and Russia.
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Now Putin wants his own league to compete with the NHL. So he sets up KHL and begins to throw money at good players such as NJ Devils
Kovalchuk: he signed $77m over 12 years with Devils and was expected to be paid $15m a season with the SKA St. Petersburg of the KHL. Putin is from St. Petersburg.
Now, with the oil prices dropping, I’m wondering if the KHL can keep up it’s payroll.
The jerseys are all made in Canada (like the NHL) designed by Captain Gordo. They’re really heavy. The yellow (Fussy Puckers) has just arrived. The (green Riptide) and the blue team had folded.
The licensing of the teams’ jersey is a pretty big business – fans do wear them: here is my outfit at Islander’s playoff game in 2021.
ice hockey team long island
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They’re moving to Brooklyn’s Navy Yard next season. I’ve feeling that they’ll do extremely well there. A fight broke out on youtube.
The glorious past, four Stanley Cups in four seasons.
Charles Wang invented the ice chicks and now all the teams in the league have them too it
The kids
The sellers and the berger
The offenders in the penalty box
Food booths
The female singer began to sing. For a minute or two I was wondering what the hell she was doing out there. Then it hit me, it’s Canadian national anthem. Hmmmmm … two American teams are playing on their own soil. Something. Maybe Buffalo is so close to Canada, and/or the Canadians’ hold on ice hockey.
Sabres’ home
More pix. On national anthem, believe me, no one has it better than China and USA. I’ve hard time to decide the March of the Volunteers is better or the Star Spangled Banner Flag is better. The Little Brothers’ is so lame.
Buffalo Sabres gives up a goal in less than two minutes by the goal tender Miller who was on the USA Olympic team – yes he was the goal tender who gave Sidney Crosby’s gold medal wining goal. Other then Miller Sabres doesn’t really have anyone. Oh well. They tied the score at 1 soon after but was defenseless and lost the game 4-1.
Sabres doesn’t have ice chicks. Reportedly Charles Wang started using bikini clayed girls to clean the ice and other teams soon followed. Guess Buffalo isn’t a flashy city -:)
The First Niagara Center (Sabres’ home turf) is so much nicer than the dilapidated Nassau Coliseum.
US$180 with player, $120 without (right)
I spotted Pat LaFontaine (1983-1998, who played for Islanders, Sabres and Rangers) #16 jersey in the crowds. I think the Islanders didn’t want to pay Pat (… he refused to play .. ) so he was traded to Sabres in 1991 but finished his career with the Rangers. He now lives on Long Island.
The Islanders continued to struggle and in 1989, they missed the playoffs for the first time since 1974. In the first game of the Islanders’ next playoff series, in 1990, LaFontaine suffered the first of many concussions, after a controversial, open-ice hit by James Patrick of the New York Rangers. He fell on his head and was unconscious while being taken off the ice on a stretcher. The ambulance he took was delayed en route to the hospital by Ranger fans who rocked and pounded it as it left Madison Square Garden.[1] He was lost for the remainder of the series.
Beer any one?
Our dinner at Sun was so so.
This story was posted in the hockey forum. I think it applies to all sports though.
To a teammate
Hope you all will take a moment to let me share a story.
I play in an adult beginners league. Our team started together 3 years ago. 2 years ago we had several new teammates join, one of which I will call Bill for the sake of this story. While most of us were brand new in our 30’s early 40’s, Bill was a little older, and had been playing a little longer, and he quickly became essentially the captain of the defense. He set lines, helped players with positioning, tried his best to bail you out when you made a bad decision to pinch in, and with a smile reminded you to never do it again.
In the locker room / rink, Bill was all business. Never talked much about his family or other locker room chatter, just always talked about how we could all get better.
Sunday night we had had a game, Bill was his usual self, blasting shots from the point, handing out advice, taking a smart penalty to prevent a goal. Nobody had any indication of what was going on.
It was Monday night that an obituary made its rounds amongst our team. It was with disbelief that we read that Bill’s 21 year old son had died of cancer on Sunday morning, about 10 hours before our game that evening. No one could believe it. Many of us had actually played a few games with his son a few years prior in a summer league, but he had quit abruptly with no explanation. Now we knew why.
A number of us from the team showed up together at the visitation, and Bill expressed gratitude for us for coming, and explained he had been up for over 36 hours before that Sunday game, because they knew it was his son’s time. But then he came to the game as a way of getting his mind off things for a little while. The game gave him a few hours of “normalcy” in an otherwise day from hell. His wife explained that she was appreciative of our team for providing an escape.
I just figured I would share this story with other players, because sometimes hockey is just a game. Sometimes it is something more.
