Sports

Hockey, baseball, football, golf, cheering for the home team, free agency, broadcast journalism, and buffet. OK, maybe not buffet, but the Canada Center in Metullah, Israel lists “buffet” as a sport.

Triangulation: In Memory of Pierre Pellaton

Pierre Pellaton, hockey coach for more than 30 years, died last night. He will be sorely missed. Pierre was the one coach that everybody loved. I really do mean everybody – players, parents, other coaches, the NJ Devils Youth Hockey board, refs, the Zamboni guy. It was impossible not to like him, with his outsized [...]

Empty Ne(s)t

Bubba and I have been Devils season ticket holders since the summer of 1999, when I saw a classified ad in the town newspaper looking for someone to split a ticket package. We didn’t realize that we’d buy into a Stanley Cup run, Scott Gomez’ Calder-recognized rookie year, and Patrik Elias’ breakout season. Going to [...]

The Right Way To Lose

Sunday night, the Seven Seals played our first-round adult ice hockey league playoff game against the top-seeded team, who had previously beaten us by baseball and football scores (13-0, 12-2, 9-1 to provide some illustration). However, our last two games against the same team were both 1-goal losses, and we actually held them scoreless for [...]