Griffin Reinhart THW Close-Up: Date of Birth: 1/24/1994 Place of Birth: West Vancouver, B.C. Ht: 6’4” Wt: 202 lbs Shoots: Left Position: Defense NHL Draft Eligibility: 2012 Bloodlines are strange things. Sometimes they don’t matter a bit, sometimes they’re all that matter. Growing up, it’s natural to become interested in your father’s occupation. Even moreso ...
If you want twenty ounces of coffee, barristas at Starbucks will hand you a cup bearing the pidgin Italian moniker, Venti . Want to dial Egypt? Hit two-oh for their international dial code. In sports, twenty has graced the backs of a number of Hall of Famers, causing ten MLB teams, two NFL teams, the Portland Trailblazers and the Los Angeles Kings*** to retire the number. In other corners of the NHL, one name is associated with the number twenty: Suter.
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team. By Wayne Coffey. (2005, New York: Three Rivers Press. Softcover. Pp. 273. $13.95 US / $15.95 CAN. ISBN 978-1-4000-4766-6.) Ask many American hockey fans what they were doing almost 31 years ago and they will ...
Christopher Ralph is THW’s prospect and draft analyst (Explore THW’s new Prospects Guide page). Like many sports and hockey fans, players and writers, I am a sucker for completely random facts, trivia and stats. Taking a break from the soon to be released updated Top 100 2011 NHL Entry Draft rankings, I decided to break ...
