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Sit Back, Relax, and Strap it Down – ’17-’18 Blackhawks Player Previews: Jonathan Toews

By September 30, 2017

I don’t really know how to start this player preview, so I would like to take a moment to commend Captain Woke on his rather thoughtful comments about the anthem protest controversies of late. As a white hockey player, it would’ve been pretty easy for him to him and haw his way through any questions […]

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Live From The Five Hole – Everybody Wants To Rule The World

By September 27, 2016

With apologies to Dennis Miller Live’s theme music, we decided to counter-program last night’s debate with the issues that are really on the mind of the American Electorate.

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World Cup: Fantasy Booking

By September 22, 2016

It’s hard to get a gauge one how this tournament is going over. We know Twitter can be something of an echo chamber (ha, “can”). So if you thought this thing was stupid  you definitely can find enough people who agree with you to get the impression that everyone thinks it’s stupid. If you like […]

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American Gothic

By September 21, 2016

There isn’t much I can add to what everyone else said last night about Team USA. We basically knew this team was doomed the minute the preliminary roster was released and Justin Abdelkader was on it. We knew they were further doomed when the U-23 players wouldn’t be available, though we were suspicious that they […]

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Russia Tries Something New

By September 20, 2016

See now this is what I’m talking about. We have our most exciting game of the tournament, Russia-North America from last night. And while we wax poetic about the Olympics and about the two Canada-US games from 2010, how many other great games do you remember from the Olympics? Maybe one or two others? This […]

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The Program, A Couple Other Announcements, And World Cup Weekend

By September 19, 2016

So as training camp approaches, it’s time for us to announce a couple changes going on here at our humble home. First and foremost, the gameday program I have done for the past eight seasons is not coming back this season. I have a couple other projects I’m working on that really wouldn’t allow for […]

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I’m Miss World Cup, Watch Me Break And Watch Me Burn: The Young Go-Hards

By September 16, 2016

We come to the end of our World Cup preview with the team that’s probably going to be the most heavily watched and the most confusing. There’s no question that Team North America is going to be the most entertaining team, at both ends. Just like a good curry. But a lot of us won’t […]

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I’m Miss World Cup, Watch Me Break And Watch Me Burn: Flew Into Miami Beach BOAC…

By September 15, 2016

Every time we have a big international tournament, a lot of us get sucked into the belief that Russia’s premier talent will finally shine through. Maybe it’s still the echoes and ghosts from the Red Army teams. We grew up with Russia being an international monster. It’s still somewhat ingrained. But now they simply biff […]

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I’m Miss World Cup, Watch Me Break And Watch Me Burn: We All Live In A Yellow Submarine

By September 13, 2016

If there’s any hope for anything other than a procession for Team Canada to win this thing at home, it’s going to be wearing yellow. That didn’t work out so well in Sochi though, and now the Swedes would have to topple the hosers two out of three on their own turf. But hey, that’s […]

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I’m Miss World Cup, Watch Me Break And Watch Me Burn – C.I.’s World Cup Preview: Czech Republic

By September 12, 2016

Pavel Nedved is certainly more worth talking about than any of the players on this squad. Come at me. We finish out Group A with the team almost certainly destined to be the wooden spooners of the group, the Czech Republic. It’s hard to believe now that when the Olympics first allowed the professionals to […]