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Le chandail de hockey

April 18 09

my first hockey sweater was a montreal canadiens sweater.  well, no.  it was actually a CCM polyester knit that was completely free of any NHL team or corporate logo.  I was five years of age and it was the early 1980s, so i probably didn’t care if the big CH was on the front or [...]

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9. Killing time

May 31 08

9. killing time.
i’m killing fifteen spare minutes before running off to shower and then to work.  it appears that i may miss out on the toronto fc game this afternoon, given the timing of my shift at the restaurant, but there’s a chance i’ll catch the last half.  this isn’t so bad, since david beckham [...]

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i stole this from a hockey card

April 22 08

As I was channel surfing between periods or goals scored during game 7 of the Montreal-Boston playoff series on Monday I came across The Hour with your boyfriend, George Stroumboulopoulos. Amoung other things, Strombo was talking to the audience about the significance of that particular day in Canadian and in hockey history. It [...]

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Cultural Observations #32: Major Junior Hockey

April 5 08

I spent the evening watching a QMJHL playoff hockey game between the Halifax Mooseheads and the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles. Halifax beat their island counterparts 5-4, but the game could nearly have been Cape Breton’s. Had not the visitors played such an undisciplined first ten minutes, which saw them down two goals and [...]

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