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The Best Names Of The WHL DraftOn an auspicious day for names, the Western Hockey League held its draft for 14- and 15-year-old players. As in past years, the draft board is a revealing look at what parents west of Ontario and west of the Mississippi are naming their kids....
Hockey Is For DancingThursday was the all-star game for Russia’s Women’s Hockey League, held in Astana, Kazakhstan. In a move that the NHL should absolutely steal, the second intermission was given over to a dance-off. First, the East team, with an on-ice routine set to a Kazakh hit:...
It's Teddy Bear Toss Season
The best promotion in hockey—maybe in sports—is back for the holiday season, and nobody does the Teddy Bear Toss quite like the WHL’s Calgary Hitmen. With the first goal Sunday by Vladislav Yeryomenko, Calgary fans littered the ice with 24,605 stuffed animals, to be donated to 60 local agencies and ...
The Future Of Hockey Remains A Bunch Of Kids With Irritating Names<em></em>
Spring is here. The weather is warm and the flowers are blooming and we, the too-lucky denizens of the hockey internet, are once again blessed with a bumper crop of names from the 14- and 15-year-old hockey players taken in yesterday’s WHL Bantam Draft. We have delighted in these drafts for a couple...
The Future Of Hockey Is Still A Bunch Of Kids With Irritating Names
I am so happy, you guys. I have, no fooling, been looking forward to this day for a full year. It is the morning after the WHL Bantam Draft, and just like last year, the draft class is replete with a bunch of 14- and 15-year-olds with names like Vine stars....
A Good Goalie Goal
The Lethbridge Hurricanes of the Western Hockey League clinched their division with a 9-3 win over the Medicine Hat Tigers last night, and one of those nine was a bomb from Stuart Skinner all way from the other end....
Teddy Bears Everywhere
The WHL’s Calgary Hitmen might have the most impressive teddy bear tosses, and this year is no different. When Jordy Stallard scored the team’s first goal of the game Sunday, fans chucked their bears onto the ice. Look at all that plush....
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Man Assaults Mascot During Game Of Musical Chairs Gone Wrong
If you have small children, or a particular affinity for minor league hockey mascots, look away now. Police are investigating whether this attack on Marty the Marmot should be treated as a crime; fans are wondering if Canada couldn't institute capital punishment just this once....
Fans Throw 21,000 Teddy Bears Onto The Ice After Goal
Often imitated, never duplicated, the WHL's Calgary Hitmen's annual Teddy Bear Toss is the best spectacle in junior hockey, and it's for a good cause. Fans bring stuffed animals to the game, and upon the Hitmen's first goal, they're hurled onto the ice in an orgiastic torrent of plush. The bears a...
Apocalyptic Teddy-Bear Rain Delays Hockey Game
Fans and players in Calgary were horrified as plushy death rained from the rafters. Scores were killed, maimed, and softly nuzzled to sleep....