Luc Bourdon Dead at 21 years old

Reports are coming out that he died in a motorcycle accident today…what a terrible loss to the hockey world and his family.
Bourdon was one of the Vancouver Canucks’ top prospects, next to Alexander Edler. He spent his time split between the Manitoba Moose and the Canucks last year, and was really showing plenty of potential.
“Luc […]

Spokane Chiefs win 2008 Memorial Cup, Break It

Congrats to the Chiefs! They won the game 4-1 as of just now. It was a well played game that both teams deserved to win but Spokane just had Kitchener’s number tonight.
I’ll be uploading the celebration to youtube ocne its over, but for now, lets just leave it to them and their fans to […]

Eklund Rickroll’d By Us (E5)

After minutes of preparation…we’ve done something slightly less phony then some of Hockey Rumor Blogger Extrodinaire Eklund…
We Rick Rolled Him.
Chocolate Rain Coming Soon (E4), Dramatic Chipmunk behind him (E2), Big legs on him really being Chris Crocker (E3).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVY_TgVZaig

Detroit Wins Game 6, Pens/Wings Finals!

For the fifth straight season, the Detroit Red Wings finished at the top of the NHL’s Western Conference standings. Still, many questioned their ability to perform when it mattered most, in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. As in so many years past, the Red Wings have once again proved their critics wrong. They breezed through Nashville, […]

Russia beats Canada in upset

I hate Ilya Kovalchuk even more now, but congrats to Russia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIMPISs_GFo

Ilya Kovalchuk scored the game tying AND game winning goal today in a 5-4 win that gave Russia the gold for the first time in 16 years. The rocket of a goal came on the power play during a penalty on Rick Nash for […]

Canes for a Cure

So I thought this was a good place to promote this. The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is taking place in less than a month here in Raleigh, NC. This year I decided to join the 5K race with the “Canes for a Cure” team. Alongside me on the team are other Caniacs, […]

Oh Shi-! What an own goal!

At 6:23, the Swiss caught the worst possible break when Philippe Furrer got the puck off a faceoff in his own end while killing a penalty, and tried to clear it around the boards, but instead slammed it into his own net past Gerber. Zaripov was credited with the goal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0vbjUDYWhE

Canes summer happenings pt. 1

So it’s only been a month since the end of the season for the Hurricanes. We’ve had many things still going on in the Caniac nation though.

Sergei Samsonov was re-signed for three years after putting up 32 points in 38 games here in NC.
Tuomo Ruutu, Eric Staal, Cam Ward, Dennis Seidenberg, Niclas Wallin, and Tim […]

A Long, long, hot summer

The loneliness that is an early playoff exit; the hypothetical questions abound as the playoffs have been trimmed down to just four; Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Dallas. Any question proposed can easily be lead to one defining theme- I wish my team was still playing.
Its that tough pill to swallow with a big glass of […]

The Top 10 Moments of the Playoffs So Far

Its been a while since I’ve done a youtube top 10. So here is another one. For people going “OMG DON’T START AT #1!!!!”, its a non-sequential top 10.

The Patrick Thoresen incident - Thoresen went down to block a shot against the Washington Capitals, and got hit in the midsection. Initially doctors considered the possiblity […]