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Today's Phrase That Pays: "Hockey Taliban"
Comparing overly loyal hockey fans to vile religious dictators should probably not cause any problems for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Bob Smizik. Seriously, those people are capable of anything! (Hockey fans, I mean.) [Post-Gazette; guy who is not Taliban via]...
Canadian Junior Captain Leads Nation In Vicious Elbows To The Face
Cormier, who plays in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, had just made a line change during overtime against the Quebec Ramparts, when he skated past defenseman Mikael Tam and clipped him in the head with a high elbow. Tam went down like a rock and was convulsing on the ice before being hurried ...
Alaskan Hockey Space Bear Is Back To Tear You A Brand New One
Who knows what terrible sin humanity committed against the Alaska Nanook, but that bear is irate. Okay, maybe we shouldn't have frozen him in the Arctic, but is that any excuse to destroy Planet Earth with a kick-ass '80s soundtrack?...
Goal Of The Year? Goal Of The Year.
The ECHL's Victoria Salmon Kings get their puck-handling on, and inspire an entire generation of aspiring athletes to think pass first. Oh wait, no they didn't....
Don Cherry's Tentacles Are Long And Numerous
The CBC's bombastic and colorblind analyst swore up a storm at a young radio reporter, and was taken to task by another station's producer. Guess which got suspended? All you kids out there...it wasn't Cherry....
Russian Hockey League Is Gonna Need A Bigger Penalty Box
A KHL game was canceled after 3:49 of the first period when a brawl resulted in 691 penalty minutes and not enough players left to finish the game. Also: a Jaromir Jagr sighting! [RussianHockeyFans/Fanhouse]...
Pakistani Sex Scandals Are Somewhat Tamer
A Pakistani national field hockey superstar was fined 100,000 rupees (about $1200) after being photographed hugging a tournament official. That sounds excessive and draconian, but we all know hugging is a gateway drug to holding hands. [Dawn]...
Meet The Hockey Team That Better Damn Well Win Gold In Vancouver
Canada has selected its very, very, very important Olympic hockey team. No pressure, guys. Just because it's on home ice that doesn't mean they won't find a way to deport you if you only win bronze. [Image via TSN]...
One Last Horrific Injury To Close Out The Year
From a Junior C game in Canada: "Thomson threw Oliver to the ice, propelling Oliver's right leg through the air like a cartwheel and slicing Brown's throat beneath the chinstrap on the right side of his face." [London Free Press]...
Minnesota "Wild Fire" Pun Used in Headline
Oh, here is some non-skeleton racing news, for you! Everything the Minnesota Wild own burst into flames in Canada, yesterday. Everything! Also they all have the flu....
You Don't Need Gonads To Be A Goon
And here's another heartwarming girls-in-sports story. Pennsylvania high school hockey gives us the rare mixed-gender brawl, spurred by two boys dropping the gloves against one feisty little lady. (Or in the unfortunate parlance of the YouTube poster, "tagteaming" her.)...
As It Turns Out, NBA Players Haven't Completely Tuned Out David Stern
David Stern insists with robotic regularity that his ballers are the "best athletes in the world". (Sometimes, when he's feeling particularly saucy, he goes with "most extraordinarily gifted".)...
Locker Room Peephole Much Less Amusing Than Porky's Would Have You Believe
It must suck to find out your former high school hockey coach allegedly molested a teenager. It must suck even more to find out that he secretly filmed his teams in the locker room....
Canadian Dads Are Sick Of How Much Their Hockey-Playing Daughters Stink
Canadian fathers, already emasculated by their daughters being better hockey players than they ever were, have directed their misplaced aggression at the noxious fumes emanating from their little princesses' hockey gear....
The Last Time Russia Pushed Westward, It Didn't End Well
The KHL is expanding, adding a Stockholm-based team in hopes of drawing more western talent. A Russian-based league with a team in a non-Soviet country? That's as absurd as the NHL expanding into Canada. [On The Forecheck]...
Optimistic Coyotes Fan Misses Point Entirely
An Internet commenter on the new shuttle service that takes fans to Phoenix's arena:"When I lived in Denver, the Broncos ran shuttles from the park-an-rides to the stadium. The Denver Broncos always sold out games. Good move!" [KTAR]...
IceGators Coach Defends His Stick Throwing Temper Tantrum
Brent Sapergia says throwing all his team's equipment on the ice wasn't a stunt. He was just really, really mad! (Says the refs weren't looking out for his players.) Tough, but fair. [Puck Daddy]...
You'd Lose Your Mind Too, If You Had To Coach Hockey In Louisiana
Brent Sapergia only lasted two games as coach of the Louisiana IceGators, but he made them count—getting thrown out of both and making himself internet famous with an epic, bench-clearing temper tantrum....
ECHL Team Should Stop Before We Get Enough
This is the jersey the Bakersfield Condors will embarrass themselves in tomorrow night for Michael Jackson night. The uniform also includes one white glove, and a lifetime of humiliation. [Icethetics]...
Hockey Players Love The Feel Of Ice On Bare Skin
A junior hockey team in Idaho was banned from the local rink after imitating their NHL idols and holding their own "strip shootout." I guess if the Tampa Bay Lightning jumped off a bridge, you would do that too? [WSOCTV]...