Tag Archives: Hockey

Everything but the kitchen sink

When you have a baby, there is no “just picking up and going” anywhere. There’s stuff to be packed. Babies require accessories.

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Deep Hockey Analysis

While watching the Avs (boo) and Wild game, Ryan Smith scores on a bad defensive breakdown. “Is that the ugly guy?” “Yeah, that’s the guy who looks like the bartender from Deep Space Nine.”

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Jesus rose from the dead and then laced up his skates

While it is true that I own goalie gear (using some borrowed skates), have done it a dozen times in rentals, and occasionally come up with some seemingly impressive glove saves (thank you, twenty five years of softball), I am absolutely not a goalie. It turns out this fact is not enough of a deterrent [...]

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Headed south

Lots of nothing going on. Where do I begin? We spent the weekend in Detroit with my family while I played in a tournament. Lost all three games, but we were totally outclassed in the last two. Saturday night it was evident we were NOT going to be championship game-bound, but the team had a [...]

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Duluth Road Trip

Living in the U.P. must be making me paranoid. Saturday night after our game in Duluth, I stayed locked up in my hotel room instead of going out for food. Granted, we weren’t staying in the greatest part of downtown Duluth, but it’s not Detroit, people. It did seem however, that Duluth, like Hancock, seems [...]

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Hockey

Ah, it was a busy weekend. U of MN was in town to play Tech, so we grabbed tickets for Friday night’s game. Yeah, we got spanked, but it’s still fun to see the No. 1 WCHA team play in your arena. Our seats were at center ice in the first row, right up against [...]

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Thank you, Stout

Wow, I know mapquest sucks, but my trip, which was estimated to take about six hours, took five. This is also taking into account that the roads were snowy and shitty until I got behind the Cheddar Curtain. I’m not exactly complaining, as the extra time to unwind has been nice. Free wi-fi at the [...]

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All-American 2006

We rolled in around 3AM this morning from a weekend out in St. Paul. My hockey team played in this tournament at this mega sportsplex and took a somewhat respectable 4th place, losing to Iowa State in the consolation game. It came down to the last minute of play, with a bad bounce in front [...]

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