It’s time to Harperize the NHL
Marian Hossa was severely concussed by a late hit by Phoenix Coyote forward Raffi Torres. Torres received a 25-game suspension. This image was gratuitously stolen from the interweb. The NHL’s justice...
View ArticleChicago, post #1: Graffito
Did you know that the word ‘graffiti’ is the plural form of ‘graffito’? Well, now you do. Can I interest you in a graffito? Howzabout if it looks like this? Gajin Fujita’s chi_town mural includes this...
View ArticleMaxim Shalunov – 1G, 1A in game 6
Chicago Blackhawks prospect Maxim Shalunov put in solid performances in the WHL leg of the Subway Super Series, including a goal and an assist in the final game in Victoria Thursday night. This guy is...
View ArticleMaxim Shalunov suspended at World Juniors
The Chicago Blackhawks picked Maxim Shalunov in the fourth round of last year’s NHL draft. If the Subway Super Series is any indication — and if the big league decides to play at some future point in...
View ArticleAbbotsford Heat playoff hopes fading fast
The Rockford Ice Hogs didn’t just beat the Abbotsford Heat on Friday night. They lined up the nails all neat-like, threw what was left of the Heat’s playoff hopes in the coffin, and started hammering...
View ArticlePhotobombing the pros
At the Abbotsford Heat game last night, I got some great shots (and some not so marvellous pictures, too, but that’s the way she goes). Here’s something a little different. Check out this pic of Brad...
View ArticleBecause it’s the Cup
Notice it’s FINAL. Singular. So yeah, stop saying FINALS with an ‘s’ already. Logo stolen without shame from the interweb. Because it’s the Cup, I will watch the Boston Bruins and their road show of...
View ArticleCongrats to Reto Berra
Props to rookie goaltender Reto Berra, who picked up a win in his very first NHL start, in overtime over the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks no less. He made 42 saves on 44 shots —...
View ArticleHeat host Ice Hogs; bacon shortage cancelled
After a six-game road swing that saw the Abbotsford Heat play .500 hockey, they return to the AESC in the Valley to host the dirty rotten stinkin’ no-good Rockford Ice Hogs. The games mark the chance...
View ArticlePlayoff predictions – Western Conference
Fans in Vancouver are predictably blasé about the NHL playoffs; the Canucks have missed the post-season for the first time since 2008, and YVR hockey fans aren’t exactly renowned for loving the game so...
View ArticleEpisode 61: Round One Chatter
After unanimously anointing the Vancouver Canucks as round two participants in the last podcast — thereby sending the Calgary Flames into the wasteland of central Alberta golf courses — Russell and...
View ArticleRound two: PITH predictions
We at Pucked in the Head don’t hang our heads in shame and tears just because the Vancouver Canucks had their behinds handed to them by the low-down, dirty, rotten, head-shottin’, potshottin’,...
View ArticleHawks in five
The Stanley Cup final promises to be one of the most entertaining in years. The Chicago Blackhawks are on the verge of their third Stanley Cup win in six years, which would put them as close to...
View Article2016-17 NHL Fantasy Draft, part one
It’s been four years since I last joined a hockey pool. I’ve enjoyed the game far more in years that I don’t have a horse in the race, you know? This season, though, I thought I’d throw caution to the...
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