Posts Tagged ‘hockey’
Ice hockey sticks are an integral part of the overall ice hockey equipment and uniform. There are basically two types of sticks that are used for the game. Those who play the game or are fans of it should be well acquainted with this. There are the regular hockey sticks and there are also the ...
There are many obvious sports trivia facts that your typical fan could spit off effortlessly, as if it were as obvious as simple addition. Everyone knows about Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point game, Rickey Henderson's 130 stolen bases in a season, Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hit streak, and other record-breaking feats. ...
The rivalry between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens is the oldest and most bitter rivalry in the history of the National Hockey League, which has led to these teams being each other's arch-rivals. From 1944 to 1978, the two teams met each other in the playoffs 12 times, and faced off in ...
Today we're going to rewind to 1990, almost 20 years ago (wow, it's been long!). I was a high school student and the Boston Bruins had made the Stanley Cup finals. The entire school followed every minute of every game, and was exhausted on the day I'm speaking of. This is because the Bruins had ...
Hockey is one of the greatest sports in North America. You can play it on concrete during the summer and you can play it on the ice during the winter but the only problem with it is that you need a lot of equipment. Hockey jerseys and hockey equipment can get expensive sometimes so you ...
Jeremy Roenick has always been one of those polarizing hockey players. He has his lovers, and he has his haters. His haters may even outnumber his lovers. For this reason, Roenick's retirement announcement last year was heavily overlooked. ...
Predicting the best teams in the NHL can often be full of surprises, but predicting the league's worst team is usually a little easier. Not much has happened since the end of the NHL season, but the best teams became a little better, and the bad teams a little worse. ...
Several years ago, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman pushed very hard to level the playing field for all teams in the NHL. Imposing restrictions that stripped teams of the ability to sign a handful of big names at once would give all small market teams an equal shot. Great idea in theory, but now he deals ...
Alrighty, here we go. So we've haven't heard about any major moves from the Sharks and GM Wilson in free agency or trades this off season, except for the signings of Ortmeyer and Nichol, as well as some resignings. But recently there's the "Heatley" rumor going around that the Sharks might have a go at ...
There are more than 300,000,000 people in the United States and the world population is quickly approaching 7 billion. Our country makes up just 5% of the entire global population, even less. The days of US athletic dominance may soon come to an end for this reason, unless the country wakes up from ...