Wherein We Find A Sign In Our Quilting Fabric

We may have mentioned in this space that we have concocted consolation prizes for the inevitable moment when the Devils are no longer contending in this year’s playoffs. In the last few years, we’ve been plunged into periods of alternating rage and depression after the eliminating loss, so this year we’re prepared. We’ve both selected [...]

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Advice Week: Crunchy Edition

Last summer we had Ryan “Crunchy” Miller join the IPB writing staff as an advice columnist (You can read his works here and here), and, being the highly influential bloggers that we are, the NHL took notice. They loved the idea, and asked us to help them install a regular hockey-player advice column on NHL.com. [...]

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Project Bicycle Spoke: Joe Sakic

Dear Crunchy, We drew Joe Sakic out of the Project Bicycle Spoke box today and we don’t know what to write. Do you have any helpful suggestions or tips for a situation like this? Signed, The Ookies Stately IPB Manor, NJ Dear Ookies, Life can’t be all about driving around and having other people do [...]

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Project Bicycle Spoke: Ryan “Crunchy” Miller

This is the 19th in our summer series in which we are drawing hockey cards at random from a box and writing about them. Dear Crunchy, How do I get toothpaste out of a shag carpet? Doreen G., Joliet IL Dear Doreen, How did you end up with toothpaste in your shag carpet? What kind [...]

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Staffy And Crunchy Do The BPO: The Untold Story

As many of you already know (and as some of you witnessed in person), Drew “Staffy” Stafford and Ryan “Crunchy” Miller made a very special appearance last night with Ronan Tynan and the Buffalo Philharmonic. Now, we have an in with the BPO, in the person of Katebits, and over a month ago (November 26, [...]

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Conference Final Predictions: IPB’s Tale of the Tape (Part 1)

The Conference Finals are set: The Ottawa Senators and the Buffalo Sabres in the East, and the Anaheim Ducks and the Detroit Red Wings in the West. You’ve probably read the predictions and projections published by the so-called “experts”, but those experts have got nothing on us; the following is our highly scientific Tale of [...]

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An Embarrassing Confession of a Foolish Love

It is, I think, time to come clean to you, Gentle Reader, about where my affections lie. Of course my heart beats red-and-black, and the Devils always, always, always trump all. But there is one certain player, a lone representative of a different Eastern Conference team, who has bewitched me to the point where I [...]

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