The 61st in our 118-part series.
Celebrations
Life just does not give us enough reasons to celebrate. Hockey, on the other hand, does.
Outside of hockey, we get 3 big chances to celebrate a year: birthdays, Thanksgiving and Christmas. But as hockey fans, we can pepper any number of other happy occasions throughout the year. The above cake, for example, was baked to commemorate Sid Crosby’s birthday, his foray into the world of high fashion (snicker!), as well as to mark the last weekend of the 2007 that doesn’t have some kind of interesting sports on TV. (You can read more about the cake from a cooking perspective on IPB Eats.) If those aren’t occasions worthy of baking a cake, what are? Moreover, why should we let occasions like getting to the top of the standings, or making a big trade, or a rookie’s first goal, pass without a champagne toast or a nice dinner out (on those ridiculous evenings without hockey) or a maybe even a guilty-pleasure pan of boxed cupcakes? Here at IPB Manor, we’ve gone so far as to institute a new annual tradition. Three times a year — Opening Day, All-Star Weekend and the start of the Playoffs — we splurge on a box of chocolates from La Maison Du Chocolat. Because nothing is more celebratory than fine chocolates and professional ice hockey.
