It has been said, likely by yours truly during a recent 3am twin feeding, that parenthood is one of the most difficult, most exhausting, most rewarding pursuits we can undertake. The difficulties are easy to identify and are everywhere you look — they manifest themselves on formula-stained suit jackets in line at Dunkin Donuts and [...]
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Check out this very cool time lapse video from high atop Heinz Field as the NHL’s rinkbuilding crew prepares for Saturday’s Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic in Pittsburgh. Sure, building a rink in the middle of a football stadium might seem impressive. But let’s see what they can do with plywood boards and no coolant! Here’s [...] It’s hard to believe, but we’re only 17 days away from the 2011 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic, which will see NHL marquee mainstays Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin face off at Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field. Oh yeah, their teams, the Penguins and Capitals, will be there too. The Winter Classic has grown from an idea to a [...] We’ve talked a bit here about growing the game of hockey in the US, and how difficult that can be given the high costs of our sport and its priority ranking relative to other activities. That’s why I was excited to see one state’s hockey organizations step up in a BIG way. This Saturday, October 30, [...] Backyard-Hockey.com wasn’t technically in existence on January 1, 2010, but that doesn’t mean the NHL’s Winter Classic, played that day at Fenway Park in Boston, had nothing to do it with. Rather, my experiences on my backyard rink (culminating in an unforgettable New Year’s morning skate with my son, wife, and dad) and the Classic [...] |
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