Category Archives: Hockey weather

In Maine, a Seal Team Six of Shinny Skates (and Skates!) Super Sunday

I haven’t a vocabulary to do justice to the charm intrinsic in the five and three-quarters minutes of the video below, passed on to me Monday by friends in Bauers I recently made up in Maine. It’s a time lapse … Continue reading

Posted in Hockey hearts, Hockey weather, OFB Outdoors, Old Time Hockey, Shinny, Shinny in Maine | 2 Comments

Inauguration Refugee: Long Weekending in Very Frozen America, for Coveted Hamstring Soreness

Over an extra long holiday weekend I watched a little bit of the start of the abbreviated NHL season, but mostly I spent it outside, in multiple layers, chasing pucks in the sumptuously crisp and frigid air of southern Maine. … Continue reading

Posted in Hockey hearts, Hockey weather, Ice, Mike and Marleen, pond hockey, Shinny | 5 Comments

Let There Be Well-Aged Rock

The Holy Triumvirate of rock came to town on Sunday evening, and hockey sweater weather made for a memorable evening for yet another memorable set.  

Posted in Hockey Heroes, Hockey weather, Rush, Washington the hockey town | 5 Comments

Montreal: Hockey’s Highest Hockey Culture

Montreal has many merits, but among my favorite is this: in March, while Washington typically thaws, Montreal remains in a deep freeze. In fact, Monday night Montreal was a scintillatingly shivering 6 degrees. I find myself scanning the world’s weather … Continue reading

Posted in Ben Raby, Canada, Federal News Radio, Hockey Towns, Hockey weather, Montreal, Montreal Canadiens, Morning cup-a-joe, Radio, Toronto | 3 Comments

A Wet Winter Classic?

Would that this coming weekend’s Winter Classic had the problems much of the East Coast does this morning: too much winter wonderland. Instead, forecasts for New Years weekend in the western Pennsylvania Industrial Cesspool are calling for temps in the … Continue reading

Posted in Hockey weather, National Hockey League, Outdoor hockey, Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, Winter Classic 2011 | 8 Comments

Global un-Warming on the Potomac

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