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Goalie Fight Breaks Out During Timeout
A good goalie fight should be like a good summer fling: short and passionate. These two AHL goalies brushed against each other at center ice and it was on. For one brief moment, they truly lived. ...

Poor Bastard Goalie Gives Up OT Winner While Chatting With Fans
Via Puck Daddy, the video is terrible, but it represents the only proof that this actually happened. A college club goalie gave up a game-winning, 200-foot goal because he was off in the corner, just shooting the shit with some fans....

Possibly Drunk Amateur Hockey Goalie Is Struggling So Hard
Judging from the way this amateur goalie's wobbling around, it doesn't seem to be solely due to the ice. The video's apparently from an amateur league game in the Czech Republic. Thankfully, no one will check this goalie into the boards, because he'll probably piss himself....

Two Tough Mothers
Here's Charlie Pierce's 1991 Sports Illustrated story on Bettie Taylor and Bonnie Lindros:...

Martin Erat Rams His Stick Into Brian Boyle's Balls
I don't care if the puck is underneath Boyle, that's real fucked up, Erat....

"14 Minutes Of Pissed Off Goalies" Delivers What It Promises
The title of this video is "14 Minutes of Pissed Off Goalies" and that is an accurate and succinct description. It's got it all: NHL, minor league, international hockey and both on-and-off ice fun, too. Tuukka Rask losing his balance, Patrick Roy losing his mind and the great soundbite of Ryan Mille...

Watch Drake And Jimmy Fallon Play Beer Hockey
Finally, we get to see what beer hockey—the drinking game that was recently invented by an unidentified Canadian—looks like in action. And it's all thanks to Jimmy Fallon and Drake. ...


IOC Forces U.S. Olympic Goalie To Take Constitution Off Mask
That up there was the mask U.S. women's hockey goalie Jessie Vetter was going to wear at the Sochi Olympics. At least until the IOC forced her to take an image of the Constitution off the back....

Hockey Assists Don't Get Niftier Than This
This is some German hockey action, but flair translates. Keep an eye on the forwards for the team in black, Krefeld Pinguine, as they backcheck. Kevin Clark loses his stick, but fellow Winnipegger Adam Courchaine smoothly flips it back up to him mid-rush. Teamwork!...

Hockey Fans: Come Drink And Listen To Great Writers
Tonight is an all-hockey edition of Gelf Magazine's Varsity Letters reading series. It features Greg Wyshynski of Puck Daddy, Joe DeLessio of New York magazine and Sports on Earth, and Jay Greenberg, co-author of Gordie Howe's Son....

Hockey Player Goes For Cheap Shot, Ends Up With A Face Full Of Boards
Well, buddy, I don't think that really went how you planned it. Don't worry about it, though, I don't think anybody really noticed....

Backyard Hockey Rink Features Homemade Zamboni
PTBO Canada is collecting readers' photos of their backyard rinks. Some are glorious, and some gloriously amateur; all will make you a little jealous. But the best one features a MacGyvered ice resurfacer....

Russia-USA World Junior Hockey Game Ends With Silly Taunting
Team USA was eliminated from the World Junior Hockey Championship early this morning by Russia. Pavel Buchnevic sealed the game late in the third period when he scooped up a loose puck and shot it into the empty net. Then he decided to do some trollin'....

The Winter Classic Looks Awesome As Always
Much like the NFL has taken over Thanksgiving and the NBA Christmas, the NHL has New Year's and the Winter Classic might be the best of them all. It's a showcase game in every sense: it's visually gorgeous and an entertaining game. This year, Toronto won in a shootout after three regulation periods...

World Junior Championships Linesman Levelled By Czech Player
Michal Plutnar of the Czech Republic just ran over a linesman in a World Junior Championships game against Canada. I'm not sure how many times the broadcasters asked, in various ways, "what was he thinking," but it was a lot. ...

Patrick Roy's Son Acts Like Nine-Year-Old After Being Tossed From Game
With the Rochester Americans trailing 5-0 to Geneve-Servette HC in the Spengler Cup Thursday, Frederick Piuze-Roy—son of famed goalie and current Avalanche head coach Patrick Roy—tried to take his frustration out on Cody Almond. He ended up getting tossed and going berserk....

How To Make The Best Of A Crippling Ice Storm: Play Hockey In The Yard
A brutal ice storm made things really shitty for a lot of people this weekend, but these enterprising gentlemen from Vermont found a way to make the best of the situation....

The Chicago Blackhawks Made The Weirdest Holiday Video
We've seen plenty of cringe-inducing holiday videos in which athletes are forced to sing Christmas carols and wear funny Santa hats, but we've never seen one like this. For some reason, the Chicago Blackhawks decided to make their holiday video movie-themed.Why is this happening? What do any of thes...

Swearing, Scoring, And Fighting: Watch This Hockey Ref's Helmet Cam
AHL referee David Banfield wore a GoPro camera for the Rockford IceHogs/Charlotte Checkers game on Dec. 7, and although these perspectives are sometimes surprisingly boring, this one's entertaining. Long, but entertaining. We get to watch Banfield break up scrums, allow fights to happen, argue with ...