Bob Collins
The handshake at the end of a Stanley Cup playoff series, sadly, occurred at the Xcel last night after the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Minnesota Wild 2-1 in overtime. Read more →
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Tag: Hockey
The Minnesota Wild haven’t been eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs, but Deadspin isn’t letting that fact stop it from shoveling dirt on the squad. Read more →
Take a sport played predominantly by whites and followed by predominantly white fans, add a city with a racist reputation, and mix in some social media and you have the ugly result in Boston this week when the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins began their playoff series. Read more →
It’s a fine line that separates good-natured NHL playoff rivalries from you-need-to-get-a-life-status. Hello, Boston. The Bruins open their playoff series tonight against the Montreal Canadiens. It’s probably the biggest rivalry in hockey and there’s no rumor for humor, apparently. In Montreal, a liquor store plastered Montreal Canadiens logos over any mention of Boston on its Read more →
Just checking in on the Denver sportswriter who criticized Minnesota Wild fans last week after the Colorado Avalanche appeared on the version of wiping the local team off the playoff map. He said Wild players were bellyachers, calling the coach duller than a fence post, and seemed to mock ‘The Great State of Hockey.’ Read more →
Did the Minnesota Wild lose a game because of a blown offside call? It’s too close to call. Read more →
As surprising as the University of Minnesota men’s hockey team’s defensive “no-show” was at Saturday night’s NCAA championship game, anyone could see the Dinkytown arrests and damage coming from a mile away. And the post-“riot” quarterbacking has been even more predictable.
And this is in a city that lost a championship game. Read more →
A Winnipeg couple will not be able to see their Pee Wee hockey-playing son on the ice again for three years because of a fight the couple had with coaches at a tournament in West Fargo. Read more →
Don’t even think of watching this video from some guys in New York and New Jersey if you’ve never strapped on a pair of skates and played hockey on a pond. Read more →
America’s luck on the ice hasn’t changed in Sochi since the U.S. men’s hockey team came home empty-handed and the women settled for a silver after having the gold practically around their necks. Read more →
What makes Minnesota the state of hockey? We don’t have ties if a game goes too long. We make them play ’til they drop. The record for longest high school hockey game in history sits right here in Minnesota. Or does it? Read more →
If we can’t get excited about Minnesota’s kids — the ones that perhaps don’t have NHL careers ahead of them — playing for a state hockey title, can we really call ourselves the state of hockey? Read more →
Can a kid in Minnesota be a part-time hockey player, the medical marijuana issue at the Capitol, why is nobody answering at 911, the end of free TV, and the singing TV traffic guy. Read more →
“It’s not unsporting for athletes to cry when they come up short. But it is unsporting to chastise them for it.”
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Yes, it’s hockey. But at least Canada is united on something. What about the U.S.? Read more →