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Watch a 9-Year-Old Boy Score an Incredible Winning Hockey Goal

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:28:53 +0000

Talk about your net winnings. Nine-year-old Tyson Greencorn won $5,000 after he made a shot from center ice during a charity hockey game in Canada last week. Never mind the stick was almost as big as he was. Never mind the PA announcer was leading a chant of his name with the whole arena looking [...]

Watch 21,000 Teddy Bears Hit the Ice at a Holiday Hockey Event

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:20:51 +0000

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. Once a year, for the past nearly two decades, the WHL franchise has fans throw teddy bears on the ice [...]

LA King Fans Taunt Jersey Devils With Giant 'Jersey Shore' Heads

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:30:12 +0000

New Jersey is a very nice place, full of leafy affluent suburbs. Really, it is. But, for whatever reason, people always like to dump on the Garden State. This Jersey hate, which used to manifest itself in "what exit are you from?" jabs and jokes about voluminous hair, has just gotten worse since the abomination that is 'Jersey Shore' began gracing television sets in December of 2009.

Dancing Vancouver Canucks Kid Will Make You a LMFAO Fan

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:30:52 +0000

Sometimes during sporting events the most interesting action takes place in the crowd. That goes double for when the highly danceable song ‘Sexy And I Know It’ is played. Watch one young hockey fan use LMFAO’s ode to self-confidence to really get the Rogers Arena in Vancouver going. The kid in the Canucks jersey is named Jack. [...]

Hockey Dad In Hot Water for Using Laser Pointer During High School Game

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:42:30 +0000

Kathyrn Hamer, goalie for the Medway-Ashland girls hockey team in Massachusetts, started to feel something in her eye during the third period of her team’s playoff game against Winthrop. While she compared the sensation to “looking at the sun,” it turned out the annoyance was a laser pointer. Distracted and experiencing moments of temporary blindness, Hamer [...]

Can an iPhone Survive Being Used As a Hockey Puck?

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:10:14 +0000

The iPhone 4 can do almost anything. It takes your calls, makes your dinner plans, stores your music and gives you an enormous sense of superiority. But one thing it can’t do is be a hockey puck. (Sorry, Canada.) On its own, that is. But if stick a G-Form protective case on the magic device and, well, [...]

Budweiser Canada Makes the Most Heart-Warming Super Bowl 2012 Commercial [VIDEO]

Alex Staub — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:00:44 +0000

Two recreational hockey teams in Port Credit, Ontario were told they were going to be a part of a documentary, but instead they found themselves smack-dab in the middle of a Budweiser Canada Super Bowl 2012 commercial. Rather than play a joke on the unsuspecting athletes, however, it turns out that the beer brand actually made their dreams come true.

NHL Player Attacked By Adorable Children [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:58:33 +0000

Kevin Bieksa of the Vancouver Canucks was resting on the bench during his team’s recent skills exhibition when five fans seated behind him started to relentlessly harass him with pokes to the head. Will the grizzled defenseman take their bait and respond? Awww. The only thing Bieksa was really attacked with was adorable. And since [...]

Watch a 59-Year-Old Woman Win a Truck With an Unbelievable Hockey Goal [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:55:40 +0000

Brenda Hewett had never held a hockey stick before. And perhaps that was a good thing, because if the 59-year old had any hockey experience she would have realized her chances of winning a F-150 truck by scoring from 114 feet away on a hockey puck-sized goal were about a million to one.

You can call it beginner's luck, you can call it a Christmas miracle, but you have to call Hewett the owner of a new F-150 because she sunk the nearly impossible shot.

Calgary's 'Teddy Bear Toss' Is Un-bearably Cute [VIDEO]

Donald Deane — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:58:27 +0000

It’s a given that Canada loves hockey, but our neighbors to the north also like throwing teddy bears apparently. At a recent Calgary Hitmen hockey game, fans celebrated the 17th annual “teddy bear toss” by throwing stuffed animals onto the ice in honor of the team’s first goal. It might be hard to, um, bear [...]

Hockey Player's Hug Gets Surprising Reaction [VIDEO]

Chip Sandalwood — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:01:41 +0000

You know what they say hockey, it’s all fun and games until somebody decides to hug someone on the other team. In a sport where any reason is generally enough reason for opposing players to come to blows, this video illustrates that spontaneous displays of affection are not immune. After scoring a goal, Henrik Eriksson [...]

Toronto Maple Leaf Joffrey Lupul Shatters Net Cam With Direct Hit Goal [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:35:29 +0000

Since they are right in the line of fire, hockey in-net cameras are designed to withstand a direct hit.

Well, it looks like the designers didn't consider the one-time shot of Joffrey Lupul, as the Toronto Maple Leaf right winger was able to shatter the net cam with a perfectly placed strike during his game against the Winnipeg Jets Wednesday night.

Twin Boys Who Pulled Hockey Shot Switcheroo Won't Get $50,000 Prize [VIDEO]

Andrea Rosen — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:23:05 +0000

A decision has been made in the case of twin brothers Nick and Nate Smith, who switched places to take a $50,000 shot at a charity hockey match last month. Whether they'd receive the prize money was in question when the family confessed that the twin who was called to participate was not the one who wound up taking the shot. Ultimately, officials decided not to award the family the money because of "legal implications."

Underwater Hockey Gaining Popularity [VIDEO]

Chip Sandalwood — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:50:55 +0000

Created by British SCUBA instructors in 1954 as a training exercise for swimming with fins, underwater hockey (also called "Octopush") is an aquatic team sport that resembles knock hockey, only on a much larger, much wetter scale. Though the paddle and puck are similar to those used in the table game, underwater hockey is a far more physical game.

Twin Boys' Switcheroo Jeopardizes $50,000 Prize for Hitting Incredible Hockey Shot [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:31:35 +0000

11-year-old Nate Smith's amazing 89-foot hockey shot into a goal only a half an inch wider than the puck itself netted him $50,000 during a charity event in Faribault, Minnesota.

But there was a catch: the name on the raffle card that had been selected to attempt the trick shot was actually that of his identical twin brother, Nick.