Project Bicycle Spoke: ???

This is the 35th in our summer series in which we are pulling hockey cards at random from a box and then writing about them. Today we decided to turn to Victory Euro Mats to draw our card from the PBS Dispenser. He was hesitant to get involved at all, but we reminded him that [...]

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Project Bicycle Spoke: J.S. Giguere

This is the 34th in our summer series in which we are pulling hockey cards at random from a box and then writing about them. If there is one thing this PBS series is teaching us, it’s that hockey card writers are a sly bunch. Case in point, this card: From the front, it looks [...]

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Project Bicycle Spoke: Robyn Regehr

This is the 33rd in our summer series in which we’re pulling hockey cards at random from a box and then writing about them. When the Devils and Flames met this past season, Chico Resch went on one of his trademarked rambling asides about the exotic pets Robyn Regehr had as a youngster, growing up, [...]

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Project Bicycle Spoke: Fedor Fedorov

This is the 32nd in our summer series in which we’re pulling hockey cards at random from a box and then writing about them. In today’s comment thread on the post with our latest podcast, there was some discussion of our disparaging tone about Fedor Fedorov. Caitlin suggested that we should create a cocktail in [...]

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IPB Hour: Episode 8

It’s a gray and dreary day here at stately IPB Manor. The rainy skies, combined with yesterday’s Autumn-in-July harvest of early-ripening pumpkins, has us thinking hockey hockey hockey. What a perfect time for a podcast! Listen as we go stir-crazy, listen as ominous thunder punctuates our prognostications for the new season, listen as we watch [...]

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Project Training Camp, Or: The Greatest Imaginary Blog Post Ever Written

Remember how yesterday we waxed poetic about those days when a blog post idea just finds us, instead of us having to labor excessively to produce something half-assed? Well guess what, Gentle Reader! It happened again today! We were finishing up dinner and something marvelous happened: we either stumbled across some old pictures on one [...]

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Project Bicycle Spoke: Special Edition

This is the 31st in our summer series in which we are drawing hockey cards at random from a box and then writing about them. Being a hockey blogger is hard work, especially in the thick of the off-season. Even with a gimmick like Project Bicycle Spoke in place, it’s still not easy for us [...]

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