Forty years since Henderson scored the winning goal in Moscow. Forty freaking years! Yup. The whole school was in the gym watching the game on a teeny tiny black and white Electrohome perched on the stage. The school buses arrived at the beginning of the third period so we had
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In This Corner: Canada-Russia ’72, game 7: Playing on the edge.
Game 7, Sept. 26, 1972 Befitting a series that could have gone either way, Game 7 is the most closely contested of the series. In a game that saw seven goals scored, no team had more than a one-goal lead. The series bubbled over in Game 7. In the first
Continue readingIn This Corner: Canada-Russia ’72, game 6: Winning ugly
Game 6, September 24, 1972 The days between games were almost as agonizing as game days. In the two days between games, pretty much all I could think about was the upcoming game. On game days, I was almost sick from worry. This would have been a pretty good excuse
Continue readingIn This Corner: Canada-Russia ’72, game 5: Midnight in Moscow
Game 5, Sept. 22, 1974 This was foreign territory, to put it mildly. Everything about watching live hockey from Moscow seemed odd. Live broadcasts from far away countries were still a novelty then, and no place was more foreign and faraway than Russia. The picture quality was horrendous, the sound
Continue readingIn This Corner: Canada-Russia ’72: The ugly Canadians visit Sweden, and getting ready for Moscow
So, where were we? Ah, yes. Team Canada left the “friendly” confines of home with just one win in four games, and the disapproval of Canadian (actually Vancouver) hockey fans still ringing in their ears. The series, expected to be an 8-0 romp for Canada (the pessimists pegged it at
Continue readingIn This Corner: What does Katz want? Try everything.
Mayor Stephen Mandel professes to be baffled by what Oilers owner Daryl Katz wants in the ongoing agony that is the arena negotiations. “I can no longer define what Mr. Katz is asking for or what he’s not asking for,” a deeply frustrated mayor said on Tuesday, after Katz gobsmacked
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Edmonton Arena – The Katz Method:Socialize the Risk and Privatize the Profit
Edmonton taxpayers are going to be fleeced without affection or mercy by the Katz Group. This has been in the cards since this atrocious deal was pre-approved last year. Having done some reading though, we can still pull out of this money trap and it looks as if Katz is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gullible Hockey Fans – Angry now, demure later.
Woo! It is lock out time for the NHL and not a moment to soon. The great showdown between millionaires is about to begin supported by the gullible hockey fan. Just take in the love they have for fans as they gouge you for parking, beverages and food. Oh
Continue readingTrashy's World: Definition of greed
….On both sides of the hockey dispute… Here ya go! A picture is worth a thousand words. (6) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingTrashy's World: What to do during the lockout…
Thanks to CBC sports for this… See the bottom middle? That will be me. (5) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingTrashy's World: There would be no talk of…
… an NHL lock-out if the egotistic bonehead Bettman didn’t insist on keeping teams in non-viable markets – (the bankrupt Phoenix Coyotes and crippled New York Islanders come to mind) Simple. He is scum. And both the owners and players are scum for letting this happen. Again. There will be
Continue readingIn This Corner: Canada-Russia ’72, game 4, Vancouver: Can you feel the love? No?
Game 4, Vancouver, Sept. 8, 1972 After the debacle in Montreal, no doubt many Canadian hockey fans consoled themselves by thinking, “Well, at least it can’t get any worse than that.” It could. And did. The Vancouver game, the fourth in seven nights for the still beer-bellied, out-of-synched Canadians, would
Continue readingIn This Corner: Canada-Russia ’72, game 3, Winnipeg. The forgotten game.
Game 3, Winnipeg, Sept 6, 1972 First, you may be wondering … why Winnipeg? Why not Edmonton, or even (God forbid) Calgary? As hard as it may be to believe, at the time Winnipeg had the biggest and best arena on the prairies. Like I said in the beginning, this
Continue readingIn This Corner: Canada-Russia ’72, game 1: A look back at our darkest hockey day.
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Canada-Russia series of 1972, I went back and watched, via time machine (or maybe DVD), Game One from Montreal, played Sept. 2. Here is my report. It was a Saturday, the last one before school began again for the fall. At least there
Continue readingIn This Corner: Canada-Russia ’72. Why it mattered.
It’s 40 years ago today that Canada and Russia faced off in Montreal to start the most gut wrenching, confidence shattering, depressing and joyous sporting even in Canadian history, and one of the most epic in the history of sports anywhere (you heard me, Super Bowls and World Series’). It
Continue readingTrashy's World: Thomas Mulcair?
He hates hockey… he really does. See this hockey player? Thomas Mulcair hates hockey. He would ban our children from playing hockey. THIS CHILD WOULD NEVER REPRESENT HIS COUNTRY AT THE OLYMPICS! Thomas Mulcair hates hockey, children and his country. Only a strong Conservative majority government can stop him. (7)
Continue readingTrashy's World: Will Ottawa’s hatred of all things from Toronto…
… keep this bar from being a roaring success? I’m not sure. But if past experience is any indication whatsoever, MLSE will have a tough sell on their hands to overcome the almost pathological anti-Toronto-ness here in the nation’s capital. Looks like a pretty cool place to grab a pint
Continue readingTrashy's World: Fool, flake and flop…
… are three words that I think best describe this selfish bastard (aka Tim Thomas) What a moron. No one will take him after this. He is through. And I’m glad to see this Tea Partier hit the road. I wonder what would happen if I went to my Director
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Challenging Homophobic NHL Fans
Having spent some time recently examining the NHL’s and NHLPA’s collective negligence about headshots, I was inspired to address the homophobia that surrounds hockey fandom last night. Sure the Canucks lost, but before that, someone called them a bunch of faggles in Twitterland. How did that all go down, and
Continue readingHerbinator: NHL Boycott
It is Sunday. I turned the TV off. I do NOT endorse hockey violence.
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