Category: Hockey

  • Thin Air: Two Worlds, One Cup

    Boy, is this place dusty.  I haven’t put anything up since the huge half hour of PK Subban and Shea Weber swapping teams, Stamkos staying, and Taylor Hall being deported to New Jersey back in June. But there is hockey, and it’s more fun than I anticipated, so let’s do this thing. – I was…

  • 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…

  • Thin Air: Torts For Tats

    – John Tortorella is about to be revealed as the head coach of the 2016 World Cup of Hockey Team USA head coach.  That’s according to this: John Tortorella will be named head coach of Team USA's entry for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey tonight after MNF. #TSN — Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) September 21,…

  • Thin Air: Another Season Begins

    Some hockey thoughts. I wrote this a few days ago, but the internet was down at Chateau Le Tapeleg. – The NHL is going to play 3-on-3 overtime in some preseason games regardless of the score of the game after regulation. This is to give players a chance to see what it’s like and oh…