by Jas Faulkner, a fat but cute little ball of mad and contributing editor Hello to the seven of you who are reading this. Last week Louisiana led the charge to secede from the United States. Okay, I wasn’t around the previous time someone in the US tried this, but judging from contemporary reports, ...
Party Time Like NASCAR and your local bowling league, the NHL has an award gala at the end of the season. Gone are the scruffy beards and gap-toothed scowls. In go the dental bridges and out come the clippers. The league heads to Sin City, USA and they are dressed to the nines. Some would ...
satire by Jas Faulkner, contributing editor The commercial flight back to Nashville was an almost welcome distraction after the series of rickety little planes that took me leap by grasshopper-like leap from the bright lights of Toronto to the retro-metropolitan charm of Quebec City to a fuel stop in Kuujjuaq, followed by what felt like ...
Two years ago, the NHL marketing team took sports commercials to a new level by introducing the “History Will Be Made” ad campaign. Combining some of hockey’s most famous moments with the iMovie “reverse” effect, the commercials highlighted everything that makes playoff hockey what it is. Last year, the History Will Be Made theme continued. ...
A Message from the Surgeon General: Are you a resident of the Boston Metropolitan Area? In recent weeks, have you experienced: Fatigue, Depression, Nausea, Confusion, Decreased Libido, Hallucinations and Hair Loss? Do you watch or attend (or participate in) Boston Bruins games one or more times in a given week? Has your excitement at ...
by Jas Faulkner, Nashville Correspondent The question of the night was posed by Brian Engblom as he stood in the bench seat section of Rogers Arena minutes before the puck dropped: “Who are these guys, anyway?” An hour later, I was making a similar query. Who are you people and what have ...
In each of my seven previous articles since joining The Hockey Writers, I have focused upon the trials and travails of the San Jose Sharks, a thoroughly dissected franchise that epitomizes the maxim “always a bridesmaid, never a bride” (random trivia 101: the saying is alleged to have been coined by the makers of Listerine® ...
Throughout history, there have been a myriad of truly jaw-dropping, horrifying, ignominious characters that have withstood the test of time and reside in infamy, even today. Christians will point immediately to Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver by identifying him to the soldiers of Caiaphias with “the kiss of Judas”, which ...
By now, we’ve all experienced the “phenomena.” Whether it’s a player on your team, an opponent, or just looking at the cover of EA Sports’ NHL 2010 [Pictured], you are more than aware that there is a mouth-guard problem in the NHL. For whatever reason, certain players are struggling to keep their protective gear in ...
“On February 15th, Evgeni Malkin was asked to remove himself from his place of residence in Pittsburgh and go play on behalf of his home country, Mother Russia. That request came from his parents. Deep down, he knew it was the right thing to do, but he also knew that someday, he would return to ...
