Anthony Barberio
Drinker of beer, watcher of hockey, and teller of jokes from the great Garden State of New Jersey. Comedian who has a slightly obsessed fandom with the New Jersey Devils. Monmouth University Class of 2017. with a degree in International business and Marketing that sparked an interest in he global operations of the NHL and the game of hockey. Also write for Puck Prose, Devils Army Blog and previously Total Frat Move.
Author's Posts
Who Are the Owners of Seattle's Expansion NHL Team?
December 24th, 2019 Millions of kids grow up with dreams of playing in the NHL, but very few dream of owning an NHL team. Due to my less than spectacular skills on skates, I gave up on trying to be an NHL player a while ago. I think I’d make a good owner though, so there’s still a chance for me to get my name on the Stanley Cup. The very exclusive...
Seattle & Golden Knights - Comparing the Expansions a Year In
December 6th, 2019 Wednesday marked the one-year anniversary of Seattle officially being awarded an expansion franchise. The still yet to be named team has gone through a lot of development in its first year, much like their expansion brethren, the Vegas Golden Knights. Even if Vegas entered the league a few years before Seattle, they were both awarded...
NHL Expansion After Seattle
November 25th, 2019 In a few short years, the NHL has grown from 30 to 32 teams. One of those teams was placed in the very non-traditional hockey market of Las Vegas. The other was placed in the major city of Seattle, who has lacked an NHL team in the modern sports era. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, center left, holds a jersey after the NHL Board of...
The NHL's Relationship with United States Presidents
November 12th, 2019 Rarely do Presidents of the United States make it to the highlight reel of SportsCenter, but President Donald Trump has found himself there a few times in the past few weeks. First, he decided to attend a World Series game where the hometown Washington Nationals were playing host to the Houston Astros in Washington, D.C. Then again,...
Can NHL Fans Behave Themselves?
October 28th, 2019 A crowd full of hockey fans can be both exciting and terrifying at the same time. Catch them when their team is winning a game and it’s an experience in itself. If you find yourself in the cheap seats when the team is losing, you might hear some vocabulary you won’t want to bring home to your mother. Then again, I’ve seen my...
Hispanic Hockey: The NHL's Next Frontier
October 21st, 2019 Back in the 1980s it seemed like hockey was a sport only played in Canada and a few scattered enclaves across the northeastern United States. Sure, those Soviets an ocean away were getting pretty good at the game, but the heart and sole of hockey was in the snow covered locales of North America. No matter how much of a Red Scare the...
