Category Archives: goalies
Sponge Pucks
I don’t know what made me think about this but as I was out and about today, enjoying the feel of Christmas in the air, I suddenly had this image of a sponge puck bounce through my brain. Remember those … Continue reading
Filed under Driveway hockey, goalies, Pucks, shinny
Concussion Treatments Then and Now
Lots in the press lately about concussions and the scourge they are in the game today. I couldn’t agree more. Having said that, I doubt there is any way to eliminate them from the game short of removing contact and … Continue reading
A Goalie With Ice In His Veins…Really
No ‘splaining necessary on this one. What a wonderful sculpture this is, eh?. Some creative type carved this sucker in downtown Waterloo in the courtyard in front of the Bauer Kitchen. I see room low on the stick side over … Continue reading
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Blinded by the Twine
A few weeks back, I had a chance to score where I was wide open at the right edge of the crease with the puck and the goalie was down on his back. His glove was on the short side … Continue reading
Shinny Armageddon
Is there anything worse in recreational hockey, (I mean ANYTHING), than having only one goalie show up? This is a rhetorical question of course because anyone who has ever slapped on skates at 11:00 PM on a -18 degree night … Continue reading
How Not To Score on a Penalty Shot
“You skate like Ovechkin!” At first, I thought it was a compliment. However, I had just missed a penalty shot at the end of my Monday night game earlier this week and quickly realized that the goalie who had stoned … Continue reading
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Don’t Let Them Shoot!
It looked like he had an egg underneath the skin on the side of his neck, I thought as I looked down at our fallen goalie as he lay writhing in the goal crease. Not good, not good at all. … Continue reading
