Often in the world of hockey, the best teams in the regular season fail to win out in the playoffs. Just ask the Ferris State Bulldogs, who were one of the top teams in the NCAA all season but fell in their conference quarter-finals Sunday to the Bowling Green Falcons—a […]
Lucas Punkari – A View from the Nose Bleeds
After defeating the Kenora Thistles in a great 4-1 performance at the Ice For Kids Arena here last month, the Fort Frances Thunderhawks senior men’s hockey team seemed to have things going in a great direction as they tried to return to the Allan Cup after making it to the […]
American showman P.T. Barnum is credited with saying “there’s a sucker born every minute.” Although it’s never been proven that he actually uttered those famous words, to me it widely describes the annual hype job that is the NHL trade deadline, especially in recent years. Each February, it seems television […]
Maybe it’s just the bitter and cynical 23-year-old in me, but I’m not really caught up in the hyperbole that is this year’s Super Bowl, which takes place Sunday night in Indianapolis after a 234-hour pre-game show (or at least it feels that way). Perhaps I’m not interested this year […]
