Hockey

18-year-old Eric Czapliniski has been the team manager for the Lacey High School Lions for the past three seasons while also playing Center for the Brick Stars Challenger Program.

Talk about your net winnings.

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.

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. Rea

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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 o

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.