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oh 🥹 good things (and today i learned keanu reeves plays goalie!)
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Tonya Harding (Hockey Edition)
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what is going on with the ohl???
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Letters from an OHL Camera Operator
I am a volunteer. I work the equivalent to a 9-5 job at my place of volunteering employment. I work weird hours at my paid job. My 9-5 is a 2-10 (all PM hours). I set up the equipment, I test the equipment, I eat the same Pizza Hut pizza I’ve been eating for the past 2 years and I’m happy.
I follow players around the ice. Certain ones that is- I get told two to three numbers right after O Canada. Last year was 14, 16 and 26 (or 86). Year before was 14, 90 and again 86. This year just started but I’m following 23. I figured I’d be following 3, since Canada won the Halinka Gretzky cup this year.
I wake up at 11 am these days. I eat breakfast, grab some fruit bars and a juice box. I walk the dog and then I catch the bus towards downtown- to make it to the ice for 2:00 pm.
We take the equipment out of the brand new truck, lug it into the building and hope to the hockey gods (or whom ever you pray to) that the freight elevator isn’t broken. It was last week. We put our stuff on the small carts they have and pull them into the elevator and eventually into the media box.
The local radio guy is already there- he goes live at 3:00 pm so we tend to stay quiet during set up, just incase. The away team radio eventually funnels in as we put our cases cleanly against the wall, out of the way enough. Clean. Tidy. I set up commentators, the mics, the headsets, the back up mics, the monitors, the commentator camera, the talk back boxes, their lights- the list goes on.
Sometimes I ask the others why they still do this. One’s been here for 10 years. She does it because she loves broadcasting, as this is her last connection to the sports industry. Another does it to hopefully get an eventual job in the field- but she’s happy at Toys-R-Us for now. Both do camera with me.
Another does it because he enjoys the sports and wanted to see a different side to the game- he’s an electrician who is definitely in his 60s (I’ve never asked). Another does it as he’s interested in the sports but could never play- he’s got free time so he’s here. Our Graphics guy and I went to college together. He graduated, I didn’t. He works nightshifts at McDonald’s, gets about 2-4 hours of sleep but keeps coming back to us.
Our replay wizard, she works a retail job, is married to our CCU guy (our technical producer) and is genuinely one of the hardest working people I know. Our audio technician is my best friend. She and I attended high school together, we went to college together (I was a year ahead). She graduated and has worked on a bunch of side projects- really making a name for herself.
4 women on crew, 3 men on crew (volunteers)- the other two are paid. They work for the company. All of us together is 4 women, 5 men. We work hard. We don't get paid.
The local university and college are shocked that we aren't paid. Local business owners are as well. The company I do the volunteer work for has mare than enough money to pay us, but then again - why would they right?
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Guelph Storm @ Kitchener Rangers (3/7/2023)
I had the incredible opportunity to get a full behind the scenes tour of the Aud (Kitchener Memorial Auditorium) as part of one of my jobs. Pictured below is the Center ice view from the tv press box, Montreal Canadiens’ 2022 1st round pick Filip Mešár’s stall, and an image of the scoreboard mid game.
My tour was led by COO Joe Birch, who is a very kind and wise man. I also met Alex Witherspoon (Digital Marketing Manager), Megan Wymenga (Retail Manager), Dominic Hennig (Director of Communications and Hockey Operations), Zach Foss (Director of Ticketing), and last but not least, Patrice Whiffen (In-Game Host and Game Operations Manager).
As a female, I am very fortunate to have been able to attend the International Women’s Day Game and see all the recognition and appreciation first hand. Truly a special experience
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i need to hear more about this natemac wanting to kidnap mitchy at any possible moment
nate wanting to kidnap mitch comes from this interview excerpt from when they went to worlds together in 2017:
you can read the full article here
there's also this post that has some more moments of the two of them interacting, if you're curious!
#anon i am so sorry this ask is literally several months old 😭 but hopefully this answers your question!#insane to me that the ontario hockey uncles want mitch dead#meanwhile every star in the league is like. if you don't want the mouse we will take him. hand him over.#like if you ever catch yourself wondering 'is mitch marner good at hockey'#just remember that if natemac had his way he'd already be on a plane to denver#mitch and his relentless energizer bunny personality is something that can actually be so personal!#mitch marner#nathan mackinnon#hockey lore#the asked and the answered
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watching people overhype easton cowan is driving me nuts. like he's doing so well, just leave him alone and cut the expectations, jfc. will never understand or respect the overinvestment in the teenage levels of this sport.
#this is not an anti him post at all but i feel like too many ppl are waaay too invested in the hockey that legit teenagers are playin#like putting that much on him is so ridiculous... im glad hes thriving. good for london ontario lol#but acting like how u do in the ohl is a reflection of how ull do in the nhl is also just setting a kid up for failure#chill out lmfao#let him enjoy THIS before coming into the worst damn marketjfkdk in terms of pressure#seeing ppl say hes gonna be the next marner or hes better than mitch or hes gonna replace mitch like.#will you please be rational and stop trying to ruin multiple lives in the process lmfkakdkd#im convinced hell get his shot in the big leagues next yr but who knows how it will all go so lets not . be insane thanks#asking hockey uncles to not be insane is a pointless task ik but
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The National Hockey League’s first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home on December 1, 1924, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.
#National Hockey League#first US franchise#Boston Bruins#first game#USA#1 December 1924#100th anniversary#US history#Boston#Massachusetts#travel#summer 2018#International Hockey Hall of Fame#Toronto#Ontario#NHL#Canada#Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame#Nova Scotia#Halifax#2015#sport#original photography#architecture#cityscape#vacation#Cam Neely#Bobby Orr#Trinity Church#Park Street Church
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lol @ this hockey academic's surname being ohl
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#4k#Ontario Reign logo#white black silk fabric#American hockey team#Ontario Reign emblem#AHL#Ontario Reign#USA#hockey#Ontario Reign flag#American Hockey League#wallpapers
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It hasn’t been easy for many who have come before them. Twenty-six years ago in Nagano when women’s hockey debuted as an official Olympic sport, some media coverage focused more on the sexual orientation of the players than the competition.
But relationships among athletes are slowly gaining a normality in women’s pro sports. In 2021, married couple Allie Quigley and Courtney Vandersloot won a WNBA championship with the Chicago Sky, and they are just one of many couples in the league.
Women’s sports is undergoing a transformative expansion — new leagues, more money and investment, increased media coverage — and the story of teammates as couples is only going to become more common.
“I've always been the hockey player. But I have a wife and I can be myself. People are coming to the rink and saying thank you for allowing me to be myself,” Poulin says.
If Poulin has helped make Stacey a better hockey player, Stacey has assisted Poulin in living her most authentic life.
And in a lot of ways, they have become bigger than the game.
Their late-September wedding at Le Peaches and Cream in Low, Que., is described by many of the 192 family members and friends who were in attendance as the perfect day. Poulin and Stacey both call it “the best day of their lives” — an epic celebration of life and love, the culmination of a relationship that began in 2017 when they locked eyes while swimming at a Team Canada event at Blue Mountain in southern Ontario.
Stacey had just competed in her first world championship, Poulin a decorated champion many times over. They were teammates, but they didn’t really know a lot about one another.
“A few of us decided to go skinny dipping in the pool at 2 a.m.” Stacey says. “The two of us looked up into the sky at the same time and we saw a shooting star. Our eyes met and we asked each other if we just saw that. Nobody else in the pool saw it or knew what was going on but we saw it. For the rest of that night it was a weird feeling. I had a feeling.
“We always go back to that moment. Even in my wedding vows, that was the thing —that she was the wish I had always dreamed of and I didn’t realize it until now.”
and they were linemates... everybody stop drop and read this article on laura stacey and marie philip-poulin
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KEVIN DINEEN THINKS CT HAS ALWAYS BEEN HOME
By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Kevin Dineen returned to Connecticut to participate in the Hartford Yard Goats celebration of Hartford Whalers Day at Dunk Donuts Park last week. “I have always looked at my time with the Whalers as very special. Everything has to have a beginning. Hartford was that for me. It really made for some very fond memories for me and my family. Meeting my wife…
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#AHL#American Hockey League#Brandon Crawley#Columbus Blue Jackets#ECHL#Florida Everblades#Florida Panthers#Greenville Road Warriors#Hartford Whalers#Hartford Wolf Pack#Keith McCambridge#Kevin Dineen#National Hockey League#New England Whalers#Norfolk Admirals#Ontario Reign#Portland Pirates#Rochester Americans#Ron Francis#Syracuse Crunch#Tampa Bay Lightning#Ulf Samuelsson#Utica Comets#Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins#XL Center#Yale University
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To be fair, as a Montréaler I wouldn’t say we don’t give a shit about the leafs because there definitely is a strong Hab-Leafs rivalry, it’s just that we hate the Bruins more.
Alberta is hilarious, most hated team is one of their two hockey teams. I guess everyone does hate Calgary, after Toronto of course
Most Hated Team - All Sports including NCAA
#reminded of the final line of the song Ontario sucks#the fact the most hated in pei is a minor league hockey team is funny thought#but I guess maybe they don’t have major league sport teams?
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That year, the NHL was embroiled in one of its periodic work stoppages, this one a lockout.Players were allowed at practice facilities, but team officials were not.
Crosby took on the role of media relations director. A day in advance, he’d tell the media what time Penguins players — usually around a dozen — would be working out. One time, in a particularly endearing moment, players canceled the next day’s workout. So, Crosby called me and asked me to tell the rest of the media not to show up. It was a very strange time for hockey and especially for Crosby, who had just lost 100 games in his prime due to a concussion. Now, he was missing more time in his prime because of a lockout.
Also because of the lockout, Crosby had plenty of time for introspection along with his hockey player and media relations duties. He had time to pay close attention to the rest of the hockey world, too, a privilege he typically isn’t afforded in October.
Two hours north of Pittsburgh, a 15-year-old sensation had arrived in Erie, Pa. — Connor McDavid was taking the Ontario Hockey League by storm. I had decided to travel to Erie with Penguins broadcaster Paul Steigerwald on Saturday, the night of McDavid’s second home game, when the Erie Otters were taking on the London Knights.
On the game’s first shift, McDavid split defensemen Olli Määttä and Scott Harrington and then scored to finish off a highlight reel goal.
Dan Bylsma, then coaching the Penguins, was there. Following the game, he chewed out Määttä and Harrington, a couple of Penguins draft picks, for allowing that goal on the game’s first shift. After seeing the interaction, I joked to Bylsma, something along the lines of, “I don’t know, that McDavid kid is kinda good.”
Bylsma looked at me and said: “He’s 15. They shouldn’t be getting split like that.”
I relayed this story to Crosby, who asked if Bylsma really said that. Then he took my side.
“Doesn’t matter how old he is. He’s different,” Crosby said.
Oh?
Crosby always politely answers questions about players, but he doesn’t typically go out of his way like that.
Then it occurred to me that Erie Otters games aren’t televised in Pittsburgh. I had assumed that Crosby had never seen McDavid play.
“Got some time on my hands these days,” Crosby said with a smile. “I’ve seen him. I’ve seen highlights of him.”
The greatest player in the world is checking out YouTube highlights of a 15-year-old hockey player?
“Yep,” Crosby said.
Then he said something I’ll never forget. Sensing that he saw something in McDavid that was different, I asked him if McDavid reminded him of anyone. In a non-arrogant way, Crosby quietly said, “He reminds me of me.”
Make no mistake, he admired all of the players who were compared to him. He once told me that, if he could shoot the puck like Alex Ovechkin, he wouldn’t pass as much as he does. I once saw him shake his head when he watched Patrick Kane stickhandle around an opponent on TV.
But he never anointed other players, even if he would marvel.
With McDavid, stylistically, Crosby saw himself. And he saw talent that was out of this world.
Crosby didn’t feel threatened. He understood that someone else always comes along.
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HER STORY IS INCREDIBLE EVERYONE SIT DOWN AND LEARN FROM THIS QUEEN ⤵️
Kiana Scott, who played minor hockey system for 11 seasons, including four seasons on boys teams, gravitated to scouting from watching her brother’s games and critiquing his strengths and weaknesses.
Unaware of jobs available in hockey, she enrolled in makeup artistry college after high school, but knew her heart was in the sport.
She eventually enrolled in an online hockey general manager scouting course.
Scott joined the International Scouting Service Hockey mentorship program in 2018 and scouted for the service for two years while holding down two jobs.
“I love scouting future prospects, and the evaluation process,” she said. “I think that's kind of where my passion lies. It's just the evaluation process. And it's exciting, building a team.”
Scott spent two seasons as a full-time scout for Erie before she took a bold step and left the organization to move to Calgary and became an independent scout in June 2022.
“I just kept practicing my craft and kind of paid my own way, like, throughout the whole year,” she said. “All of the tickets to every game, all of my travel expenses, everything. I just put all my money into scouting and trying to evolve and then I ended up getting my (Avalanche) internship the next year.”
Scott had some financial help from her family for the move and she supplemented her income by working as a bartender at a Calgary casino, a job with hours that allowed her to scout games.
If all that wasn’t enough, she also enrolled in the University of Florida’s online sports management program.
“I've always had the mindset to just keep betting on myself and working hard and evolving,” she said. “I think I've taken a lot of risks to get to where I am, but I wouldn't try to change the journey for anything.”
Scott said she hopes women, women of color and people who don’t come from a so-called “traditional” hockey background will follow her on the journey.
“I grew up playing hockey, but I didn’t play professional hockey, I didn’t go to college or university for hockey,” she said. “I just had a passion for it. I love scouting. I worked at it, and I continue working at my craft.
“People that don’t necessarily come from the traditional background, I hope they see themselves in me and believe that they can put their minds to it and get it done.”
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The 2024 NHL Draft was as eventful for Kiana Scott as it was for the players who were selected in the seven-round event at Sphere in Las Vegas last month.
The 25-year-old Barrie, Ontario, native signed with the Colorado Avalanche at the draft to become a full-time amateur scout, fulfilling a goal she has had since she was a teenager.
“This is something that I've worked really hard for my whole career to be able to sign my first NHL contract,” Scott said. “I was elated. The Avs have been really good for me the past year, and I’m excited to keep building with them.”
Scott joined the Avalanche after working as an intern for the organization.
Colorado general manager Chris MacFarland said he and executive director of hockey operations Suzanne Borchert “were impressed with her work ethic and her passion."
MacFarland said: “Kiana was on our radar when she was scouting in major junior circuits ... and it worked that a few years ago we had an internship opportunity for her.
“She did a good job in that role and was an integral part of our amateur scouting department. We’re excited to see her contributions moving forward in her full-time role as an amateur scout.”
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Scott made history when she became the first woman scout in the Ontario Hockey League with Erie in March 2020.
She was among the initial of a wave of women who were hired in recent years as scouts at all levels of hockey, including Cammi Granato (Seattle Kraken), Blake Bolden (Los Angeles Kings), Krissy Wendell-Pohl (Pittsburgh Penguins), Meghan Hunter (Chicago Blackhawks), Gabriella Switaj (Anaheim Ducks) and Brigette Lacquette (Chicago Blackhawks).
Granato moved on from Seattle to become an assistant general manager for the Vancouver Canucks on Feb. 10, 2022, and Hunter was promoted to assistant GM by the Blackhawks on June 22, 2022.
“When I first started scouting, I didn’t know of any women in the industry already,” she said. “Cammi Granato got her job with the NHL a year after I started scouting. That’s when I kind of knew it was possible. But I never had anyone to look up to. I just had this dream and the passion for hockey. I knew that I had to the talent and skill to do it, and to try to keep building on them.
"That’s what I’ve always gone off on -- keep evolving, never give up on what you love.”
#kiana scott#colorado avalanche#nhl#erie otters#ohl#hockeyblr#women in hockey#diversity in hockey#minorities in hockey
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