It was confirmed today: the 32nd NHL expansion franchise goes to Seattle. At long last, the home of Boeing, Microsoft, Starbucks and grunge music is home to the NHL. Great news for a city with a good hockey history and fan base (WHL), and it is a place I’ve been to multiple times as well….
Tag: Hockey
Welcome… to hockey season. It feels like it, too.
Aargh! Yes, the ultimate reminder of winter’s final approach is now upon us. NHL hockey season has started as of last night. If you don’t believe me, believe the people of Calgary which earlier this week got covered in snow. Yes, summer is definitely over in this country, you sure cannot play baseball in that….
Humboldt Broncos open the season tonight, and the entire country is watching
Tonight is the much-anticipated first game of the SJHL season with the Humboldt Broncos hosting the Nipawin Hawks. This is their first regular season game since the bus tragedy. The game is on TSN nationwide tonight, as well as CTV Saskatchewan, and obviously the game is totally sold out. I have mixed emotions about the…
Welcome to September. Yes, hockey is back already #sjhl
I have spent tonight tuning in to Jr. A preseason exhibition games involving SJHL teams across the border in Alberta tonight (Battlefords North Stars in Frog Lake vs. Bonnyville, Humboldt Broncos in Peace River vs. Whitecourt). I can’t believe hockey season is back already. Football’s return I can believe, but hockey? This is way too…
Audio from the Humboldt Broncos’ last game of 2017-18 is now up online.
On an overall gloomy day in Saskatchewan, when lawyers were in court getting the $50,000 interim payments approved for families of the Humboldt Broncos‘ crash victims, I notice audio has been posted of the Broncos’ last game before the collision. The audio is from the April 4 playoff game with the Broncos hosting the Nipawin…
World Juniors buried in snow, Johnny Bower dies, and more Sports from Nowhere
Welcome to Sports from Nowhere, which should be a lot more enlightening than if I did a News from Nowhere. Instead of linking to stories about Erie, Pennsylvania being buried in several feet of snow, I’ll link to stories about that World Juniors hockey game in Buffalo which also got buried in snow. Yes, that’s…
Boxing and football make for a winning movie box office combination
Recently, I read an article on TSN’s BarDown website that talks about Darren Rovell’s list that he posted of the top ten-grossing sports movies of all time — in today’s dollars might I add. As it turns out, the top movies he listed are mainly football or boxing related. At the top: Rocky and Rocky III, followed by…
There’s just something right about Ron MacLean hosting HNIC
It’s already a great start to this NHL season, and not just because Auston Matthews had a four-goal night in his first game for the Leafs a few nights back. It is Saturday night, and Hockey Night in Canada is back. Or more particularly, the Hockey Night in Canada we’ve known is back — not…
It’s that time of year, folks: it’s finally hockey season!
Yes, folks, at long last hockey season is upon us! Tonight, the SJHL season begins with five games on the schedule. My press pass is here, and while I’m not going to be covering the game tonight here in the Battlefords against Kindersley, I’m looking forward to following the games on the radio and maybe…
Hey TSN, this would’ve been the day for nonstop “FireCentre” coverage of the Toronto Maple Leafs!!!
The Toronto Maple Leafs are a national embarrassment. In a year when five out of seven Canadian-based teams made the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Leafs were part of the “two of seven”, and as a result changes are being made. GM Dave Nonis, interim coach Peter Horachek, and a whole bunch of other people were fired. …
For those of you who are sick of hoops on TV, the hockey NCAAs are also on
Just a reminder to you hockey fans out there, especially those of you who might be fans of teams that may be in a position to draft Jack Eichel.
Last word from me on my latest recent hockey coverage
And now, the sports. For the past couple of nights I was back on the hockey beat covering the Sask Prairie league finals. On Friday, I was at the Civic Centre where the Meota Combines beat the Hafford Hawks 5-4 in overtime to force Game 5. Then last night at Battleford Arena, the Hawks’ temporary…
Now, here are the links to my hockey stories from the weekend
My stories are now up from my hockey coverage from the weekend. I filed stories from the North Stars-Bruins series in the SJHL, the Stars-Contacts series in midget AAA hockey, and the Sharks-Bears series in female midget AAA hockey. Honestly, I’m completely exhausted. Maybe I should do what Conan O’Brien did and book a trip to Cuba. I should point out…
It’s still hockey season! I’ll be covering the SJHL playoffs this weekend
Just want to let people know that I am yet again on assignment, covering hockey. In fact, by the end of this weekend I will have covered so much hockey that I may not want to cover a hockey game ever again. This is my weekend to work, which means tonight and tomorrow I…
The king of Saudi Arabia is dead, Deflategate, and other News from Nowhere
It is time for another News from Nowhere on this boring, largely football-free weekend. The only interruption to that has been yet another Bill Belichick press conference today on Deflategate, which I tuned into. This is proving to be a big distraction for the team’s Super Bowl efforts. I gotta say, Belichick looked supremely ticked…
Work update: busy weekend covering sports in the Northwest region again
Uh, hi, folks. The reason I have been MIA for the past few days has been because I have been busy covering sports, mostly hockey. Tonight, I am writing the story on the Battlefords North Stars road trip to the southeast, which means listening to the radio and looking at the score sheets online while…
Okay, now I’m mad — no Fiesta Bowl on Canadian TV, bumped for hockey again #fail
I know this Canada-USA game is important at the World Juniors and a marquee matchup and so on — but seriously, TSN?! You have five channels now. Surely you could have used one of them, just one, to show a football game. And not just any Bowl game, but the Fiesta Bowl!! It’s Boise State…
Once more, I’m on assignment as “temporary interim sports reporter” again
Work update: as you can no doubt tell from reading that piece on the Roughriders, I have been filling in on the sports desk for the last several days, and this situation will go on for another week after this. To that end, I am pleased to announce that, for now, I am covering the…
New era of Hockey Night in Canada begins tonight
Yes indeed, the new era with Rogers in charge of the new-look, new-host Hockey Night in Canada begins tonight with NHL games tonight not just on CBC but on multiple channels all over the dial: Tonight on CBC, it’s Pittsburgh at Toronto, followed by Edmonton at Vancouver. On City, it is Montreal at Philadelphia. On…
Hockey season wraps up in the Northwest region, life is now officially boring
For a while it looked like the hockey season was going to last quite a bit longer around here. But the midget Stars lost in the league finals to Notre Dame a week ago, so they’re out; then on Friday the North Stars lost to Melville in the SJHL playoff semifinals, so they’re out. Last…
Battlefords North Stars take on Melville in two important road playoff games in the SJHL
It is once again Hockey Night in Saskatchewan! Tonight and tomorrow night, the Battlefords North Stars are in Melville up against the Millionaires in SJHL semifinal action. The Mils are up two games to none and tonight’s game is basically a must-win for the North Stars. So far, the story of the series has been…
Sorry, all the other sports: hockey is the best part of the Winter Olympics, bar none!
I may not be a big Olympics fan in general, but I am a hockey fan and the Olympics have set the global standard for showcasing that sport, again. The games have seen plenty of drama this week — Cinderella stories such as Slovenia and Latvia, stunning upsets like the Finland victory over the Russians (prompting social…
TODAY IS HOCKEY DAY IN CANADA IN LLOYDMINSTER!
Well, today is a BIG DAY for hockey fans on the Saskatchewan-Alberta border as CBC takes Hockey Day in Canada to Lloydminster! Fans there can enjoy all the hockey-related activities including sightings of Don Cherry, Ron MacLean, and of course the Stanley Cup. A blog is going at the Hockey Day in Canada site about all the…
ROUGHRIDERS FOOTBALL WITHDRAWAL DOMINATES SASKATCHEWAN
My newspaper column this month is about Saskatchewan Roughriders withdrawal, now that football season is over in the land of wheat and potash. Basically, the main thing we’ve got going here now is the junior hockey season, which is great, but it’s definitely not the same as I point out in my column. I will…
THE NHL NEEDS TO WRAP IT UP. HOCKEY IS NOT A SUMMER SPORT — I DON’T CARE HOW GOOD THE GAMES ARE!!!
Seriously, folks, this is ridiculous. We are officially into summer, according to the calendar. But even though it’s June 23, we still are playing NHL playoff hockey with Game 6 set for tomorrow. Now, granted, the games between Chicago and Boston have been dynamite, with three overtime games in the Stanley Cup finals. It’s been great hockey….
HOCKEY THOUGHTS, INCLUDING A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE BRAMPTON BATTALION
We are officially into the dead season as far as hockey is concerned where I am. The playoffs have been over for the local teams here for a long time. Both the local SJHL and AAA midget teams exited the first round, and then the Saskatoon Blades down the highway made life even more miserable for their…
NORTH STARS ARE OUT, NOW SUFFERING FROM TERMINAL BOREDOM SYNDROME
Seriously, life here just got really boring.
ENJOY GETTING UP FOR THE WORLD JUNIORS
All the news on the latest at the World Juniors Hockey tournament from Russia can be found here at the TSN website. The tournament begins today, on Boxing Day, and runs until Jan. 5. Enjoy waking up early.
IT’S STILL HOCKEY NIGHT IN SASKATCHEWAN, NOT SO MUCH EVERYWHERE ELSE
Hi, again. With our resident sports guy down in Mexico, I am doing the SJHL beat this week. Tonight, I’m covering the Battlefords North Stars versus the Nipawin Hawks. Saturday, the North Stars host Weyburn. I’ve also been writing a few stories this week for the sports pages on SJHL and other hockey happenings. There is never…
ESPN IS SHOWING KHL HOCKEY GAMES. I KID YOU NOT!
Today was a historic day for hockey fans. That’s right, for the first time ESPN2 in the USA was showing a live Kontinental Hockey League game. It was Alex Ovechkin and Moscow Dynamo taking on HC Lev. Then they repeated the game later that night! Here’s a live blog of what went down. From what I…
