Reasons We Love Hockey Part 68

The 68th in our 118-part series. Schadenfreude Obviously the primary focus of fandom is wanting to see your own team win. You invest your time, your money and your emotional well-being in following the fortunes of your favorite organization, and in return you’d really like to see a championship. Or a playoff appearance. Or an [...]

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Reasons We Love Hockey Part 67

The 67th in our 118-part series. Sergei Brylin It doesn’t seem fair to write a post about Pando and Madden without giving some love to Sergei Brylin. It seems like our unsung trio has been slowly but surely sung. Madden had his day in the sun when he won the Selke, and PandoNation has grown [...]

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Reasons We Love Hockey Part 66

The 66th in our 118-part series. Pando & Madden We know, we know — we’ve already written a Reason We Love Hockey about Pando, but this one is different. This is about the singular, monolithic unit, Pando and Madden. For the last gazillion years those two guys have been attached at the hip, as linemates [...]

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Reasons We Love Hockey Part 65

The 65th in our 118-part series. Brian Gionta There was a very brief period in our lives as hockey fans when we paid even the slightest bit of attention to college hockey (then we realized if we ever learned what the Pairwise system was our brains would explode) and that brief period happened to be [...]

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Calling All IPB Irregulars!

If you’re interested in joining the IPB Irregular Fantasy Hockey League, read more!

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Reasons We Love Hockey Part 64

The 64th in our 118-part series. Alexander Ovechkin We both studied Russian in high school, and we both went on month-long “exchange” trips to Moscow (in which we hung out with a group of our American classmates and never spoke a word of Russian because our host school was an English-language specialty school where the [...]

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Reasons We Love Hockey Part 63

The 63rd in our 118-part series. Colby Armstrong and Max Talbot Once upon a time, the Devils had a player who had a sense of humor and wasn’t afraid to appear spunky and goofy in the occasional interview. When interviewed for a taste test of the Wheaties that featured an Olympic Marty Brodeur on the [...]

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