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Currently ReadingRecently Read | There seems to be a cultural convergence happening here. Or maybe I’m just noticing because four of my favorite things are involved — music, books, film and hockey. It started last night with a George Winston concert. Perhaps because he records on the Windham Hill label, Winston gets placed in the “New Age” category. (Question: [...]            Tim September 24th, 2010 | Tags: Books, movies, Music, USHL | Category: A Reading Life, Culture, Film, Hockey, Music | Comments are closed |  Print This Post |  Email This PostThere aren’t a lot of things that I really, really, really enjoy. So it seems odd that having plenty of opportunity to engage in a couple of those things would feel, well… somewhat stressful. Yet reading books and watching hockey make me think I need a vacation. Not to get away from those things — [...] Tim March 26th, 2010 | Tags: Books, Hockey, TBR stacks | Category: A Reading Life, Hockey | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostNew Year’s is starting to become one of my favorite holiday periods. That’s because once again this year it was hockey heaven. Let’s start with New Year’s Eve. At first, I was disappointed the Stampede did not have a home game, which has been a tradition. That did, however, allow me to watch Team USA [...] Tim January 4th, 2010 | Tags: Hockey, USHL | Category: Hockey | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostI damn near fell out of my chair when I saw it today. According to the god of television ratings, Nielsen, Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals on NBC “claimed the top slot in Nielsen’s ranking of the top primetime telecasts on broadcast TV for June 12, 2009. The show drew approximately 8.0 million [...] Tim June 16th, 2009 | Tags: Hockey, television | Category: Hockey | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostOctober is rapidly becoming one of my favorite months. Wednesday night was the draft in the Puck Podcast keeper fantasy hockey league — which has members from the U.S., Canada, Switzerland and the U.K. (I had the first draft pick and took Ovechkin.) The USHL season started Friday night. The NHL Network brought me the [...] Tim October 5th, 2008 | Tags: Books, Hockey | Category: A Reading Life, Hockey | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostTravel to and from the Frozen Four can be awfully exhausting. I’m just now starting to get back in the swing of things. But then it isn’t just watching three great hockey games, there’s the atmosphere and simply being a tourista. Some final, albeit somewhat random, thoughts: Add to the hockey games trips to at [...] Tim April 15th, 2008 | Tags: Hockey, NCAA hockey | Category: Hockey, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostCutting through all the preliminaries: Spending about seven consecutive hours in Pepsi Center to watch live championship college hockey — Priceless. Granted, the seven hours includes getting there 30 or so minutes early to watch warm ups, a 50 minute break between the semifinal games and a total of five intermissions. But even from our [...] Tim April 11th, 2008 | Tags: Hockey, NCAA hockey | Category: Hockey | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostProbably a significant portion of the US population was watching the NCAA men’s basketball championship last night. I didn’t but my NCAA championship is also this week — the Frozen Four. NCAA hockey flies way under the radar in most of the country. Yet the Frozen Four comes amidst the best time of year for [...] Tim April 8th, 2008 | Tags: Hockey, NCAA hockey | Category: Hockey | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostOkay, I’m addicted. And that’s the reason things have been sparse around here lately. What am I addicted to? NHL Center Ice. In eight of the last 10 days or so, I’ve spent anywhere from two to four hours a night watching hockey on TV. The two days I missed were because I was at [...] Tim October 25th, 2007 | Tags: Hockey | Category: Hockey | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostEach year, The Hockey News publishes what it calls it’s “Bucks and Pucks” issue. This year’s edition hits newsstands next week with former Stampede player Thomas Vanek on the cover. According to The Hockey News, the cover story “examin[es] what life is like for Buffalo Sabres left-winger Thomas Vanek after his new contract makes him [...] Tim October 19th, 2007 | Tags: Hockey, NHL | Category: Hockey | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |         The views expressed here are mine and mine alone. I do not speak for my law partners, our associates, staff and clients or my family and friends. Not only should any opinions here not be attributed to them, chances are they probably don't agree with me.  | ||
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