Puck 'N Hockey

Amidst the celebration of a hockey championship, you will often find adult beverages being consumed.  Typically, this is beer in cans and champagne drunk from whatever trophy was won (or for brevity’s sake, straight from the bottle).  When the Canadian women won Olympic gold in February, they partook in this hockey tradition.  The mass media…Click here for more.

I don’t like to pick things off of other blogs and use them like this but one particular question and answer struck me as very important in Mike Vogel’s interview with Tomas Fleischmann. You and some of the other guys in this room struggled in the playoffs last year, but you’ve also had a history…Click here for more.

At the Molson Canadian World Hockey Summit today, the never ending debate of when to introduce kids to body contact in hockey came up. As expected, the Chief Medical Officer for the International Ice Hockey Federation and Hockey Canada, Dr. Mark Aubry, brought out the statistics showing contact results in injuries. The rest of the…Click here for more.

We’re in the hockey doldrums but there are a few glimmers of hope on the hazy, hot, and humid horizon. Here is a quick reminder that there is hockey being played this weekend for a great cause. According to the OFBG Facebook group page, the silent auction which benefits Special Olympics Maryland, currently includes: A…Click here for more.

Continuing our look at the NHL Alumni roster for the fundraiser at the Hagerstown Ice & Sports Complex on September 25th, we profile a player that Caps fans from the last decade or so should recognize. Terry Yake was taken by the Hartford Whalers in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft. Yake spent most of his…Click here for more.