My dear Twitter friend and fellow Boston hockey blogger @cameronfrye and I had the opportunity to attend and cover WBCN and Aaron Ward’s Cuts for a Cure event on Wednesday afternoon. While she is the far better photographer than I – it helps that she has the souped up, newer version of my trusty ol’ Kodak – I tried my best to snap some interesting photos myself of the Boston Bruins players who offered their locks up for shearing by the highest bidder.
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There are people in this world who come up with ideas about a million times better than anything else I will ever fathom. Adam Sherlip is one of them. Adam, better known to his social media followers as the “Hockey Volunteer,” is currently raising money to travel to Ladakh, India to teach hockey to local students. In his previous work with three time Olympian and women’s hockey legend Angela Ruggiero, Adam traveled to China to instruct a youth league there with Project Hope, an outreach project of the New York Islanders. Adam, Angela and Project Hope eventually brought youth hockey teams from the Heilongjiang Province to the United States on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to play against American youth hockey teams and meet other hockey players like themselves.
I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to ask Adam five questions as he prepares for his upcoming trip. Continue reading
This weekend, I posted a nice little piece at the HLOG (Hockey’s Ladies of Greatness) titled, Dear Hockey East; Thanks for the goalies. Love, The NHL. It covers the NHL callups of Maine’s Ben Bishop, Boston College’s Cory Schneider and Everyone’s Favorite Goalie, Boston University’s John Curry. In it, I actually give Schneider props (please don’t take away my Terrier Fan card!)
There are times where I write a piece and think, “Hmmm, maybe I should have kept with that Sports Information and Communication major I had early on in college.” This HLOG piece is one of those times. I hope you all enjoy it.
According to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette’s Empty Netters blog, John Curry will get the start for the Pittsburgh Penguins tonight against the New York Islanders at Nassau Coliseum. Isn’t this a case of deja vu? Curry’s first NHL start and win happened on November 24th against the Islanders at Nassau Coliseum.
It is hard to gather from the blogosphere if this start is more because of the two games in two nights schedule, or more because Dany Sabourin has been in net for three straight losses. While many (like The Pensblog and others) mention that while Sabourin hasn’t been awful, he hasn’t been awesome, and that him sitting a game might not be the worst idea. The general sense I’ve gotten from all that I’ve read is that the Penguins defense hasn’t been making plays when they need to, and that has been what has hurt them most, not necessarily goaltending.
Now, off to find a bar with NHL Center Ice that won’t break my holiday budget…
In this edition of “The Everyone’s Favorite Goalie” watch (insert overly dramatic TV news graphic here), news out of Wilkes-Barre this morning is that John Curry is on his way to Pittsburgh, where he will back up Dany “Still Can’t Find Anyone Who Can Pronounce His Last Name” Sabourin.
This is the first regular season call-up for Everyone’s Favorite Goalie. He spent the pre-season with Pittsburgh, and technically was on the roster when they played their first two regular season games in Europe, but did not dress.
The Penguins take on the Minnesota Wild tonight at 7pm on Versus. No word yet as to when the Curry 36 Pittsburgh Penguins jerseys become available on NHL.com (just kidding.)