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Ever wonder which Canadian-based NHL team is the most popular in Canada? Of course popularity is a bit subjective, so I thought that I would look at some actual data to see which of the NHL’s Canadian teams were the most popular in Canada. One of the historical criteria that makes a hockey fan a…
The 2023 NHL trade deadline is coming up in a couple of weeks on Friday, March 3, 2023. In an ideal world where NHL teams were not at the mercy of a flat salary cap, budget issues, each NHL team has a “want list” of players and talent that they would like to add to…
There has been lots of discussion about A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) with feeds being populated about OpenAI and chatbots as of late. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, the global buzz over ChatGPT, the cutting-edge new helper bot designed by the Elon Musk-backed tech firm OpenAI is everywhere. My career…
The 2022-23 NHL all-star game is being held in South Florida. Many fans enjoy the all-star game festivities that take place over the weekend. Personally, I have become a fan of the NHL Skills competition as opposed to the game itself, but there have been some great NHL All-Star Game moments over the years. We…
If you watched the game between the Chicago Blackhawks and Edmonton Oilers yesterday (January 28, 2023) you may have seen that the Oilers had to call up EBUG (Emergency Backup Goaltender) Matt Berlin. Stuart Skinner who was originally supposed to start was not feeling well so the Oilers named Jack Campbell Starter and called up…
Saturday, January 21, 2023 marks the twenty-third “Hockey Day” in Canada. This year’s annual hockey day in Canada will be broadcast out of Owen Sound, Ontario, the sixth time an Ontario town has hosted the event. Hockey Day in Canada was started by CBC in 2000 to celebrate the game of hockey in Canada. The…
The 2022-23 NHL season has just come up on its halfway mark and it has been an interesting first half. Explosive starts by teams such as the Buffalo Sabres, New Jersey Devils, and Seattle Kraken to equally surprising slow starts by teams such as the Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers. The 2022–23 NHL…
Van Halen is one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all-time. In October of 2020, we lost the great guitarist and founder of Van Halen, Mr. Ed Van Halen. Music has not been the same since, but go into any hockey rink on any given night and you are bound to hear a…
In 2023, The Hockey Fanatic celebrates twelve years of hockey fan posts. The Hockey Fanatic has been a one man show. I started The Hockey Fanatic because of my passion for the game of hockey, and the fact that I liked to blog. Yeah I know bloggers get an unfair rap sometimes, but as a…
When I was a kid and collected hockey cards, it seemed liked everyone always wanted to get the goalie cards. They were always a hot commodity, especially cards that featured the goalie mask that the particular goalie was wearing. Back in the seventies and eighties, prior to the new modern masks that goaltenders wear today,…
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