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: Mark Fraser

This is the 41st in our summer series in which we are pulling hockey cards at random from a box and then writing about them. Today marks the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics, a day of intense athletic promise. On a day like today, world-class athletes the world around, and their fans, believe [...]

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Project Bicycle Spoke: Martin Hanzal, Lauri Tukonen, Torrey Mitchell, and Cristobal Huet

This is the 40th in our summer series in which we are drawing hockey cards at random from a box and then writing about them. It’s Wednesday night, and you know what that means, Gentle Reader — Pookie’s working late. It also means Project Runway is on tonight, as well as a new Mythbusters, and [...]

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Project Bicycle Spoke: Tim Thomas

This is the 39th in our summer series in which we are drawing hockey cards at random from a box and then writing about them. Dear Diary, Still no word from team management about changing the team’s name. I don’t understand why they don’t like the name Boston Bars. It means the same thing as [...]

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Project Bicycle Spoke: Michal Rozsival

This is the 38th in our summer series in which we are drawing hockey cards at random from a box and then writing about them. We’re not going to lie to you — we were really hoping to get through the summer without see any Rangers (Jagr doesn’t count), and yet here’s Michal Rozsival leaping [...]

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Project Bicycle Spoke: Manny Fernandez

This is the 37th in our summer series in which we are pulling hockey cards at random from a box and writing about them. When we drew this card, our first impulse was to laugh uproariously at the two people seated behind Fernandez. They’re not even pretending to watch the action on the ice! But [...]

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Project Bicycle Spoke: Checklist

This is the 36th in our summer series in which we are pulling hockey cards at random from a box and then writing about them. SNORE! What a boring checklist! Here’s a list of things we’d much rather be getting out of the PBS Dispenser than that collection of humdrum crap: 1. A card that [...]

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