Author: James Gralian

  • Bakersfield Hockey-thon: or How I Learned to Skate Through Pain

    One of the happy coincidences of my west coast hockey tour was that the Bakersfield Condors games that I had selected to attend lined up perfectly with the Bakersfield Hockey-thon, a charity event to benefit Links for Love, a breast cancer organization. And even though I am a simply awful hockey player, how could I…

  • Bakersfield Gone Wrong: Player Arrested, Coaches Suspended.

    And right after I leave town, look what happens. In what appears to be two separate incidents, the Bakersfield Condors have suspended their coach and assistant coach for an “internal matter,” and one of their players was arrested. First, the coaches. From the Bakersfield Californian: Condors coach Marty Raymond has been suspended for seven days…

  • Two Days of the Condors: Game 1

    If I were to do this in chronological order, I would be posting a Bakersfield Hockey-thon post first, But that is not how I roll. Well, occasionally, I have been known to roll that way, but not this time. Anyway… The first game of a back to back two game series between the Bakersfield Condors…

  • Still Going: The Tour Continues

    I haven’t updated here in a few days. If you have been following the west coast tour microblog (think twitter with the features of a blog), then you know what I have been up to for the past few days, namely two Bakersfield Condors games, one Condors Alumni game, and participating in a marathon hockey…

  • Driving Post: San Jose to San Luis Obispo

    You come to a hockey blog for hockey, I understand that. I don’t really want to bore you or anything, so I will tell you right now, this is not about hockey. There, you can move on. I’m on a road trip through the hockey teams of the west coast of America, and that means…