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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,…
It has been a few years since we’ve updated our list of top hockey playlist songs. As a hockey parent or volunteer who helps out with the clock or scorekeeping, you know just how important a good hockey playlist is. Reminder that we regularly update our Hockey Fanatic’s Hockey Mix – Definitive playlist over at…
Offense is way up in the NHL this season. There are players scoring and putting up points in a manner that we haven’t seen in the past two or three decades. Many thought the 150-point season was a thing of the past… well don’t tell Connor McDavid that. Mitch Marner of the Toronto Maple Leafs…
As a hockey fan, if you are like me, you love watching the World Junior Hockey Championships. Historically this has been one of my favourite hockey tournaments. This should be another fun tournament as the likes of Finland, Sweden, Canada and the United States vow for World Junior hockey supremacy. Here’s a few pointers that…
As a hockey Fan, do you ever wonder what team namess could have been for each of the 32 NHL franchises? For example, until the league’s newest franchise in Seattle unveiled their team name of ‘Kraken’, rumours were abound that the team would be called the Seattle Sockeye or the Seattle Raniers. (The team actually…
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