Month: June 2011

  • Five Years

    Warning: today’s post is narcissistic, so if you don’t want to read me writing about this site, it’s best if you just skip this one. Today is the fifth birthday of Jerseys and Hockey Love.  Even though I started a month earlier with a simple youtube video as a placeholder, my first blog entry was…

  • Worst Jersey Foul Ever

    I sent this one off to Puck Daddy, but never saw it put up.  Considering most of the jersey fouls that get posted there are of a customizing issue (bad names and numbers, frankenjerseys, etc.), I guess this one doesn’t really attract a lot of attention.  But this is the worst jersey foul I think…

  • It’s All Over, Except the Montage

    Until a few years ago, I didn’t know about the magic of the montage produced by the CBC to close out the Stanley Cup Finals.  That’s how it goes when you’re stuck with Versus and NBC as your hockey providers.  You don’t get gems like this. Stick with it to the very end for some…

  • On Rioting

    (image source: yfrog/ niamhsays) The building on the right is the Queen Elizabeth Theater.  I was lucky enough to work there for five weeks last summer.  It didn’t have burning cars and rioters outside when I was there.  Wicked the musical is playing there now.  Here is an account of what it was like for a…

  • Game 7: Over and Out

    My feelings about game 7 are a little bit tempered by the rioting that went on in Vancouver.  I will put up a separate post about that later.  For now, my thoughts are with my friends in Vancouver, like @ryanclassic, @alixiswright, and @alanah1.  I feel bad that they can’t celebrate a Cup win, and that…