The rumors continue to run rampant that professional hockey will return to Utica. A Utica Flames Fan Club has formed on Facebook and yesterday a video featuring Rob Esche was released.
A Vancouver, British Columbia,a youth league hockey coach is heading off to jail for 15 days for an incident that occured last year during a post game handshake line. 48 year old Martin Tremblay was videotaped tripping a 13 year old opposing player who fell and fractured his wrists while breaking his fall. Tremblay has lost more than just his freedom.
It's a big weekend coming up for the Utica College Pioneers Hockey Team as they host an ECAC playoff game at the Utica Memorial Auditorium.
If you're a hockey purist and think that it should be played on an outside rink, here's an event you'll love. The 5th annual Adirondack Ice Bowl 2013 takes place later this month in Inlet, New York. The festival runs for three days; Friday, January 25th - Sunday, January 27th.
There are all sorts of different traditions involving fans throwing things on the ice during hockey games. While most of them involve dead squid or fish, the Calgary Hitman have a much more cuddly tradition.
The annual event that raises thousands of toys and creates one of the best visual effects on a hockey rink, the New York Sash Teddy Bear Toss, is slated for Saturday December 1 at Utica's Memorial Auditorium.
Although she was born and raised north of the border Polliwog is not your everyday Canadian. What I mean by that is that she is not a big hockey fan. Most all of Canada will be heading to their pharmacy today for some anxiety medication on news that the NHL has locked out its players in a contract dispute risking a second work stoppage in less than 10 years. What are the odds of NHL hockey this season?
Dierks Bentley likes to play hockey in his free time. His team, the 'Iceholes,' play on Saturday nights with Dierks wearing #7. He's made friends with the Nashville Predators team. Dierks and Predator's Captain, Shea Weber, got together to test out their hockey skills. They attempted a fairly uncommon and quite difficult shot in Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. Want to guess which one makes the shot?
A few weeks ago we reported the story of 11-year old Nate Smith of Fairibault, Minnesota who "won" $50,000 by shooting a hockey puck through a small opening at a charity hockey game. The problem was that it was Nate's twin brother Nick who had been selected to take the shot. The boys father, Pat, decided--along with the twins--that honesty was the best policy and notified event organizers of the switch. Now it appears that the boys have received the bad news they were expecting.
