Tag: Slap Shot

  • Thin Air: Hockeyville

    Hello from sunny Irvine, CA, which is about as far from Johnstown, PA as possible, both physically (if you are staying in the contiguous 48 states) and metaphorically.  How can you not follow that sentence with the words “but I digress.”  And so I do. – As far as I could tell, NBC and the…

  • Johnstown Game Tonight!

    Johnstown Game Tonight!

    Hello all!  I just arrived in sunny Irvine, California where, get this, my hotel doesn’t carry NBCSN.  That’s right, for the next three and a half weeks, I am without the national broadcaster of the NHL. Frankly, I may not survive. Opening night will be bad enough, but tonight is the Kraft Hockeyville game in…

  • Johnstown Chiefs vs. Elmira Jackals: Hockey Shrine

    Welcome to Johnstown, PA. For a lot of hockey fans, it’s impossible to think of Johnstown as being it’s own town. The city has a double identity, shared with a mythical place of violence, hockey, bad hair, and horn-rimmed glasses. Johnstown will forever be confused with Charlestown, the fictional town that hosted the Charleston Chiefs,…