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Hockey Quote for the Ages
by Alanah McGinley on 10/22/08 at 03:56 PM ET
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“We’d also heard mention of it, but we decided that it would only be worse if we went out and told the fans they were absolutely not allowed to throw dildos on the ice,” said AIK club head Mats Hedenstrom to the newspaper.
-- from The Local in Sweden (*photos might be NSFW)
Now there’s a line you don’t hear every day. For more on an awesome story, Puck Daddy tells the whole tale.
It’s not often that one needs to tag a hockey story as NSFW, but I suppose there are people bound to find this one offensive. (Not me, however—I think it’s hilarious. But I can be incredibly immature...)
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Tags: hockey+fans, sweden,
Back in the Men’s Game
by Alanah McGinley on 07/22/08 at 02:50 PM ET
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The Canadian Press reports that Hayley Wickenheiser—the all-time leading scorer of Canadian women’s hockey and widely considered one the best female players to ever set foot on the ice—has made the cut for men’s professional hockey again.
A Swedish third-tier team, Eskilstuna Linden, has reportedly signed her for the 2008-09 season. The last time Wickenheiser played men’s pro hockey was a short stint in the Finnish Second Division, and her signing was met with mixed reviews, but there’s no doubting the impact she’s had on professional hockey culture.
A few words from Jamie Fitzpatrick on the issues faced in the past:
Filed in: business of hockey | Canucks and Beyond | Permalink
Tags: hayley+wickenheiser, marketing, nhl, sweden, women's+hockey,
What Vancouver Needs: More Swedes
by Alanah McGinley on 04/13/08 at 06:13 AM ET
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From Darren Dreger at TSN:
Highly touted Swedish prospect Fabian Brunnstrom is closing in on becoming a Vancouver Canuck. The Canucks and Brunnstrom’s agent JP Barry are hoping to have something finalized within the next week to ten days as the process has heated up over the last few days.
The same basic information was also repeated by Scott Morrison on CBC’s Hotstove Saturday night as well [video available here].
So: the hottest, unsigned forward to be talked about around the NHL for the last 4 months might be coming to Vancouver next season? How’d that happen?
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Tags: fabian+brunnstrom, sweden, vancouver+canucks,
WJC—Gold Final
by Alanah McGinley on 01/05/08 at 01:57 PM ET
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Canada vs Sweden starting now.
Really, unless you’re a Canucks or a Wings fan, there’s probably no other way you’ll ever again see more Canadians and Swedes on one sheet of ice at the same time.
Scoring updates, gloating, whining etc. will be added to the comments.
Update 2pm PT: Some post-game celebration photos added below.
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Tags: canada, IIHF, sweden, wjc, world+junior+championships,
Unconventional Forsberg Diagnosis
by Alanah McGinley on 11/06/07 at 11:17 AM ET
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The North American press and hockey blogs have spent months analyzing the possible return of Peter Forsberg to the NHL (and often with the kind of reverence usually attributed to the devout contemplating the resurrection of Jesus Christ) but their hopes were sadly interrupted yesterday with the news that Jesus… err… Foppa… hurt his ankle.
But while those same analysts seriously ponder how this travesty could happen—studying the various miscues of Forsberg’s recent career as he’s attempted to regain his health and strength—the Swedish newspapers haven’t been nearly as preoccupied with all the accepted jargon.
They have their own theory about how Forsberg’s career ground to a halt:
Filed in: nhl general, obnoxious hockey blogging | Canucks and Beyond | Permalink
Tags: injuries, media, peter+forsberg, sweden,
