Both Western Conference semi-final series were in action last night. Vancouver and Detroit were on the road looking to avenge their losses in their respective Game 2’s and take the series lead. Continue reading
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Hockey (Last) Night In Canada: Battle Of The Young Guns
Sure there was a game at night but no one seemed to care. The only game that was on anyone’s mind yesterday was Sidney Crosby and his Pittsburgh Penguins against Alex Ovechkin and his Washington Capitals. Continue reading
Hockey (Last) Night In Canada: Close But Not Quite
Round two kicked off with only one game. Chicago visited Vancouver for game one of their Western Conference semi-final. Continue reading
Weekend Link-Off: Now With Less Speling Errors
To celebrate the success of our Beyonce post, she headlines today’s link-off. After the jump, an ad for the strangest restaurant ever in the history world. And that spelling error in the title was intentional.
The Washington Nationals may be a major league ball club but both the quality of the team on the field and the spell checkers off the field would seem to contradict that. (Deadspin)
NCAA approves Division 1 women’s beach volleyball. Well, I say beach volleyball but in order to be politically correct it’s called “sand volleyball.” So will sand volleyball use the beach volleyball wardrobe? (ESPN)
Ergonomics gone wild! Keyboards gone horribly wrong when they’re designed with ergonomics, ease of use, and general insanity in mind. (CIO)
Space dust: The galactic taste treat. (Daily Telegraph)
The new Yankee Stadium has seen a substatial increase in home runs over last year. It has nothing to do with the fact that it’s a new stadium or players on the juice. No, the seats are accelerating the air heading out to rightfield. (CNBC)
Since I’m in Canada, I don’t really understand the whole Erin Andrews obsession that’s swept the blogosphere. Well, besides the obvious reasons. Fortunately, Dan Shanoff of The Sporting News does a good job of figuring it out for me. (The Sporting Blog)
The Vancouver Canucks have been jinxed by a local blog that’s asked readers to submit Stanley Cup parade routes. That will always end well. (The White Towel)
Since we’ve been doing a lot of NHL playoff coverage the last week and a half, here’s a list of NHL players and celebrities separated at birth. (Sports Illustrated)
Another chapter in the book of “Are Race Car Drivers Athletes”. This time, Formula 1 drivers. (F1 Fanatic)
Good news Facebook users. Facebook has decided that they don’t completely own you. They just own you until you delete your account. (CBC)
Hockey (Last) Night In Canada: Hit, Score, Repeat
If you had access to a TV today, you were in hockey heaven. Sunday’s four games had hard hits, scoring, drama, and loud fans that you had to be asleep not to enjoy it. Continue reading
Red Light District: Let The Playoffs Begin
The NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs kicked off with a bang last night with four games on the schedule. For the duration of the playoffs, we’ll have our nightly recap of what went down on the ice. Continue reading
Fighting In The Stands Isn’t Just For Hockey Parents
There’s a long held perception in Canada that hockey moms and dads are more into the games and more intense than the kids on the ice. Fights among parents in the stands, yelling at coaches, police being called in and brawling with the refs all seem to be the status quo in Canadian youth hockey.
It turns out, though, that the crowds at NHL games can degenerate into near brawls like as this recent one in Vancouver:
According to a commenter on YouTube (treat as [sic’d]):
The kid was throwing peanuts at the bearded guy. The bearded guy got up and jokingly said “Ok, who’s the tough guy?” The kid couldn’t man up though. So the woman sitting behind the kid pointed to the “Tough Guy” and mouthed the words “He did it”. So the bearded guy had a few choice words, including the offer to “step outside like a man, punk” But the kid could only work his gums and had no cajones to back up cowardly assault from the rear.
Maybe we should chalk this one up to “Only in Canada” but seeing as fans are becoming increasingly violent, I’m not so sure. I don’t want to get sanctimonious but can’t we just unwind for a few hours at a game without trying to kill each other. But that’s coming from a guy who was “kindly” informing a referee on Saturday night that he was letting the visiting team make all his penalty calls.
The Lowdown 