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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…
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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…
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Johnstown, PA: Life After Slap Shot
Johnstown, Pennsylvania is known for a few things. One was the Great Flood of 1899, when the South Fork Dam fourteen miles away broke and water as high as twenty one feet filled the valley town, killing 2,209 people. Another significant event that happened in Johnstown was the filming of the movie Slap Shot in…
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Johnstown Tomahawks vs. Keystone Ice Miners: The Past Is The Past
You may not realize it, but you know the Cambria County War Memorial. You’ve seen it before, in the film Slap Shot. The Charlestown Chiefs were based on the Johnstown Jets of the NAHL, and the War Memorial was their home. The year Slap Shot was released, 1977, the Jets folded and the city of…
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More Johnstown Pictures
I took a bunch of pictures from my time at the Johnstown Chiefs, but I thought the last post was long enough. Here are some more. You know it’s a tough crowd when the penalty box attendant gets heckled. From behind me I heard, “You throw like a girl.” More hot dog tossing. This is…
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