CrashingTheGoalie

by Ron Spence
I have a simple take on Eric Lindros’ refusal to go to Philadelphia.
I don’t blame him.
I only met Eric twice. He used to come into Vancouver with the Flyers on New Year’s Eve.
The first time we met, the big TV boys were interviewing him, and I was patiently waiting to talk, and then [...]

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by Ron Spence
The boring people select chairs. They sit and watch games while eating their wife’s homemade popcorn. They have maybe one beer, two if their team gets to the Stanley Cup finals. Unfortunately, the guys sitting on the Montreal chairs will probably be drinking lots of beer this season.
The people who wander a little [...]

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by Ron Spence
Some things just come together.
I have an interest in old brick buildings, from the beginning of the Twentieth Century.
I have also been doing research in/ and writing articles about the new monoliths which redefined sports in the 1910s – the baseball stadiums.
And then, I discovered this picture of a turnstile from the Shibe [...]

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by Ron Spence
Theresa Ferries, author of the great blog, The State of Hockey News,  writes about Ice Girls:
“Combining the best sport around with scantily clad women. There’s so much about hockey that’s unique. Why do you wish for hockey to become more and more like the National Football League or the National Basketball Association?”
Theresa expresses [...]

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by Ron Spence
It was no secret that Jaromir loved his time in Siberia. He had played in Omsk for the Avangard-Omsk team – during the 2004-5 lockout season – and had tallied 16 goals and 23 assists in 32 games (He also played with the Kladno Czech team that season.).
Everyone in Russia knew that the [...]

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by Ron Spence
Eveleth, Minnesota and Duncan, British Columbia have been involved in a teacup battle straight out of The Mouse That Roared.
Eveleth, about three hours north of Minneapolis-St. Paul, on US Highway 53, has a population of 3593 – and falling. Duncan, west of Vancouver on Vancouver Island, has approximately 4700 people.,

They are both [...]

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