Cards On Ice

With all the talk here recently about the World Junior Hockey Championships, you might have been wondering about the big event on the NHL schedule – the Winter Classic that will be played on New Year’s Day between the Boston Bruins and the Philadelphia Flyers.
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This is one of the fun things about an international tournament, when teams from the non-traditional hockey markets compete – weird surnames.  Team Austria has a good one.  Peter Schneider makes this post because he has a surname of relatively normal length, and it fits nicely on the back of his jersey.

Andreas Unterganschnigg makes this [...]

Or does Regina have a tiny mayor?

Its a little bit of both, actually.  That’s Swedish goalie Jacob Markstrom accepting his player of the game award from Regina mayor Pat Fiacco.  Markstrom backstopped Sweden to a victory over the Russians in Preliminary Round play.  When he stepped up to pose for a picture, it elicited a [...]

Taylor Hall notched three goals and added an assist against Team Slovakia last night during Preliminary Round play in Saskatoon.   The only bad thing right now with that team, is the antics of Team Canada captain Patrice Cormier.  He seems to have found himself a spot on the bench right now, so that is [...]

This morning, Team Canada’s top brass will announce the roster for the 2010 Olympic Ice Hockey Team, and then an entire country will begin to rip it apart.  If you are in Saskatoon, you can check it out live if tickets are still available.  Get yourself in person to a Saskatchewan Ticketmaster outlet.  Tickets are [...]

Team Canada forward Brandon McMillan notched a hat trick against Switzerland yesterday, pacing the team to a 6-0 win.  Canada takes on Slovakia tonight in their third game of the Preliminary round.

One of the best parts about the World Junior Tournament is seeing an underdog step up and surprise some of the big guns of the tournament.  This year, in the pool that has been playing in Regina – Austria is that team.  They don’t have a lot of big guns in the lineup, but they [...]

Russia goalie Igor Bobkov put on a goaltending clinic against Finland yesterday, posting 46 saves in securing a 2-0 shutout.  Bobkov was somehow robbed of the player of the game award (Nikita Filatov took the honour for Russia, and was roundly booed in favour of the young goalie).

Being at the World Junior Tournament this week has given me a perspective on hockey photography that hadn’t occurred to me before.  There are a few things about hockey that I hadn’t realized before (I was surprised) and a lot about photography as well.

Hockey is a very fast moving sport.  When trying to follow a [...]