Author: Joe St. Germain
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The 10 Greatest Video Games Named After NHL Teams
Hey, readers. How’s life? Enjoying the stretch run in the NHL? Lots of playoff intrigue this year! Isn’t it the greatest time of the NHL season? Before you say anything, please note that I don’t care about your answer. I’m just making small talk to distract you from the fact I’m playing Breath of the…
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The 10 Greatest Defunct NHL Logos of All Time
Let’s play a quick imagination game. Imagine you’re given ownership of an expansion franchise and you’re told that money and geography are no object. How exciting! You can put your new team anywhere you like and call them anything you want. You’re also responsible for signing off on the team’s colors, uniforms … and logos.…
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The 10 Greatest Late-Season Rallies in NHL History
We’re in the home stretch of the 2017 regular season, hockey fans. While the late-season drama is gone for most teams — Washington’s dreaming of a Cup, Colorado’s dreaming of a No. 1 pick — the rest of the league’s fortunes are changing by the day. This is the time where fans start obsessively refreshing…
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13 NHL Valentines to Love and Share
Happy Valentine’s Day, lovely readers! Valentine’s Day is a time of love and companionship, of showing the people you love how much you love them with gifts and assorted romantic gestures. Of course, if you still haven’t found that special someone, you can always spend your time using Photoshop to make silly love-based puns about hockey. Which…
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What’s on tap for Greg Wyshynski?
It’s harder to imagine now, but there was a time when blogs were considered a lower form of sports media, an insult to the mores of old-school journalism. Crazily, that was only about a decade ago. The idea that even reputable news outlets would find themselves hosting blogs was pretty widely panned by the establishment.…
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Ranking the Best Non-EA Hockey Video Games
We here at Pucks and Recreation decided to take on a daunting-but-important task: creating rankings of the best hockey video games of all time. Because that covers a lot of ground, we decided to split it up into two posts. Here, Joe St. Germain ranks the five-best non-Electronic Arts games. To see Wes Herrmann’s ranking…
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How to get social like Bob McKenzie
Part of what we like doing at Pucks and Recreation is chatting with cool, interesting people in hockey media. Everyone has a story to tell — and not to get too meta here, but that includes the storytellers themselves. We’re always happy when we get a chance to talk shop with our peers and idols,…
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Gary Bettman: Las Vegas expansion ‘a chance to build upon Coyotes’ success in the desert’
Author’s Note: Funyuns is an entirely satirical column and should never be taken seriously. LAS VEGAS — Is the NHL feeling lucky? Gary Bettman sure seems to think so. Citing the “remarkable opportunity” for his league to stake its claim as the first professional sports franchise in Nevada, Bettman — NHL commissioner and integral part…