Comrades in Arms
I pulled out all of the stops last night: Dragged along Dr. Ed, who hasn’t been to a Devils game in almost four years. Wore the same, stinky, crinkled-crest red jersey as Thursday night, since it seemed to bring the similarly dressed boys good luck. And I even managed to make it into the post-game [...]
Happy Lucky 13
Friday the 13th is lucky for hockey heads in New Jersey. It’s Patrik Elias’ birthday (and at age 31, that’s 13 backwards), and it’s Bubba’s 13th birthday. That’s Bubba, holding up a sign we made for last night’s Devils game. Rough translation: “All the best for your birthday tomorrow”. Seems to have worked twice, with [...]
Gomez and Autism Awareness
Hockey players continue to come up big against autism. April is Autism Awareness Month, in addition to being the start of the NHL playoffs. After last night’s 3-assist playmaker performance, for which he got zero props from the local media (making him the zero-th star of the game?), Scott Gomez showed up in the post [...]
Home Is Where You Hang Your (Hard) Hat
Number one question I’m asked by people who know me through work circles: How do I find the time to manage a youth hockey team, or (until recently) sit on the Little League board? The answer is in striking the right balance between home and work life, a process made significantly easier through a flexible [...]
George Parros Gets a Bad Rap
I read The Hockey News because it’s comprehensive coverage of the whole ice, from colleges to the women’s game to detailed stats on the NHL. Lately, though, the writing seems both repetitive and needlessly needling. Case in point: a set of articles in the April 3 issue that discuss fighting and the role of the [...]
Zach Parise Highlight Video
We stopped by the last regular season practice at South Mountain Arena, before Lou closes up the practice sessions to the public and preps the Devils with secrecy typically shrouding the NSA’s budget. We caught this video of Zach Parise signing an autograph on my son’s (new) favorite hockey hat, doing a great job with [...]
Gomez the Good
Scott Gomez is a good guy. This is basically public knowledge, as he’s been the community face for NHL’s hockey diversity efforts for years. He’s never quiet about inviting his family in the LA area to games when the Devils travel to SoCal, and he uses his own father as an agent. I have more [...]
Meadowlands Mishegas
Even if it is one of the best songs in Avenue Q, I really shouldn’t take joy in shadenfreude when it involves both the Islanders and Leafs. For 56 minutes, the Islanders fans were dancing and Leafs fans wore long faces, only to have fortunes reverse and emotions invert as Madden popped in a goal [...]
Enter the Dragons
A night of Dragons. In the northern part of our fair Garden State, the Hockey North America Ice Dragons played our final game of the season, tied for first in the division but lacking the tie-breaker with a game in hand. We needed a win or a tie to clinch our first-ever division title and [...]