List #721: Favorite Hockey Games played

List #721: Favorite Hockey Games played

1. The Wheaton field hockey tournament

2. The Floor hockey IM game where I had 3 goals in 30 seconds

3. The GCS Field Hockey faculty game where I schooled AP and scored on a diving maneuver

4. Any of the 6 games where I scored a goal when I played organized hockey (through 5th grade)

5. The game where I didn't score in overtime against the twin cities team

6. Probably Ball hockey on christmas day

7. Alumni ice hockey games

List #467: Youth Hockey Memories

List #467: Youth Hockey Memories

1. My Teams: Wheeler (squirt D, C), Piedmont (Squirt B)

2. Collecting Hockey card stickers to put on my helmet

3. Crying so hard (at age 6) when I got my first penalty (because I was innocent) that I had to go home

4. Being offered a dollar for a goal and 50c for an assist from my grandpa (career lifetime salary <15$)

5. Awesome Fans

6. Hiding one of our players in a locker in the locker room after he punched someone in the handshake

7. Hanging out with friends between games at tournaments (and the little pom-poms the mom's would make)

8. Taking up skiing when it became clear that I wasn't good enough to keep playing on the same team as all of my friends would be on.

Bonus list: Things I don't remember

1. The outcome (Score-wise) of any game or tournament

2. It being un-fun, a waste of time, or a bad experience, even thought I quit

List #250: Favorite Minnesota Sports, Teams

List #250: Favorite Minnesota Sports, Teams

1. DEHS Hockey (not for much longer)
2. Minnesota Twins (MLB)
3. UMD Bulldogs Hockey (men or women)(NCAA)
4. Minnesota Wild (NHL)
5. Minnesota Golden Gophers (NCAA)

List #58: Why you should watch the NCAA HOCKEY tournament instead of March Madness

List #58: Why you should watch the NCAA HOCKEY tournament instead of March Madness

1. Anyone can win (and they do). Only one of the 4 #1 seeds made it out of the first round this year, and 6 of 8 lower seeds won in the first round.
2. If you knock someone down they don't usually cry and ask for a free shot on net.
3. It's a lot harder to make a "buzzer beater" (but two have happened already).
4. Way more Canadians
5. Overtimes are sudden death (unless you're Air Force... then it's a slow and painful death)
6. This year's field wasn't just all the usual suspects (except Michigan)
7. It's a great tournament for the states that don't get much other credit (when are Vermont or New Hampshire going to have a shot in basketball).
8. The last minute of a hockey game only lasts 1 to 2 minutes. Not 10.
9. "Frozen Four" is cooler sounding than "Final Four"
10. Fewer Blow-outs
11. Bemidji

Bonus list: 1 reason not to watch
1. The WCHA teams are all out already.

List #41: State Tournament Memories

List #41: State Tournament Memories (Minnesota State High School Hockey)
(East went to state all four years when I was in HS, and the year after. and I went down with the band. So much fun )

1. The "Apple Valley Game" 5-overtime Debacle in 1996 (with the unseen goal)
2. Three games, three Hat Tricks -- Dave Spehar in 1995 tournament (champions)
3. Being Forced to wander the Mall of America all day long waiting for the games
4. "Duluth East 5, Bloomington Jefferson 0, Any questions" 1995
5. The called back high-stick goal in the 1997 Championship game loss to Edina
6. Making friends with the Edina Band in 1997
7. Getting together with friends to go as 'civilians' in 1998 for the championship
8. Waving Communist Russian flags at our enemies.
9. Being taped-in by Torm... "You'll go home on the Fan Bus"
10. Going down on the Fan bus as freshen for the BJ semi-final in 1994

(11). Wondering how the 'Hounds are losing 4-2 to CDH right now even though we're out-shooting 30-10...