Olczyk Embodies Passion for Life, Hockey
NHL color analyst and ex-player Eddie Olczyk is celebrating his birthday on Aug. 16, and life is certainly good. But it wasn’t always that way. Olczyk’s world was turned upside…
Mike Emrick
Doc’s Orders: A Retrospective on Mike Emrick
Earlier this week, longtime broadcaster Mike “Doc” Emrick decided to retire after nearly 50 years covering the National Hockey League. Tributes from across the league are pouring in; as of…
Devils News & Rumors: Palmieri, Weegar, & More
It’s been another quiet last few days for the New Jersey Devils, but there’s still plenty of team-related news out there. In this version of Devils news & rumors, we’ll…
Doc Is In: Emrick Not Slowing down in His Dream Job
BOSTON — The Boston Bruins and St. Louis Blues’ morning skates are over and a handful of broadcasters have taken the ice to re-enact a play from this bruising Stanley Cup Final.
In the otherwise empty stands is a singular figure having a good chuckle a…
The NHL Needs More Viewing Options
We are introducing a new summer series called the NHL Needs More. Once a week or thereabouts, we are going to highlight different things that the NHL needs more of…
Off the Crossbar: McGuire’s Clichés Reach Stratospheric Levels
The Washington Capitals beat the Pittsburgh Penguins, 4-2 Saturday night to force a Game 6 in their second-round series. It also unleashed a flood of clichés by NBC analyst Pierre McGuire.…
To the City of Pittsburgh
LANDQUART, Switzerland — That, dear reader, is a town of about ten thousand people which I was fortunate enough to grow up in. Located just 45 minutes from the alpine city of…
Doc Emrick Playoff Bingo!
For the third straight Stanley Cup Playoffs, Doc Emrick Playoff Bingo is back! Whether you’re a fan or not, you can’t help but notice Mike “Doc” Emrick’s unique style of…
Top 10 New Jersey Devils Moments in the Prudential Center
Five years ago, the New Jersey Devils relocated from the Continental Airlines Arena (now known as the Izod Center) in the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey to the brand-new,…
Counting Down the Top-10 TV Broadcasters in the NHL Today
Being a broadcaster in any sport is always a challenge, and the NHL is no different. Imagine if you went to a hockey game, had a camera and microphone…
Get Pat Burns To The Hockey Hall Of Fame!
There is something about a guy who was once a no nonsense cop that became a Stanley Cup winning coach. In between, Pat Burns was unabashed and gruff but he…
The Running Diary of the 2010 Winter Classic
The Winter Classic is slowly becoming the Super Bowl of the NHL. Problem is, there are no trophies awarded and everyone knows who’s playing more than two weeks prior. But the hype is there, most importantly. We’ll see the same amount of commercials (so it seems) for the same repeated products or the spots for the same TV shows that the network is trying to push, but moreover, the same excitement, especially since hockey is making its mark yet again in America.
Living in Boston, it’s nice to see everyone wearing their Bruins gear and throwback Classic jerseys. This game, as important as it is to the NHL, is also pretty important to the B’s. What a lot of media outlets and fans are forgetting is that the game is still a, well, game. The win counts in the standings despite all of the glitz and glamour as much as any game played in the Garden this season. The Bruins are in the midst of a division race with the Buffalo Sabres leading and the Ottawa Senators close behind the B’s while the Flyers are attempting to inch into the playoff hunt.
With everyone who’s everyone actually being at the game, here’s a running diary of what those 38,112 in attendance at Fenway missed at home.