Here's my latest from nhl.com.

Can you fit a puck in your mouth? I think I still can. I haven’t tried it for a few years – like, say, fifteen – but I have eye witnesses who can testify that I definitely could fit a puck in my mouth in high school. And no, nobody forced it down my throat. It was just a friendly little competition.

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Different languages are fascinating. I've only recently learned that the Swiss German, the dialect of German people speak in Switzerland, isn't really "Swiss German," but several different dialects (that apparently are so different that a person from Basel has difficulties understanding somebody from Zurich). And that it's only a spoken language. When the Swiss start writing stuff down, it becomes standard German.

Wow.

And the other day, I saw two hockey guys talking to each other, one in Czech, the other replying in Slovak.

Then I joined them and we spoke English, agreeing that Jagr is an amazing player.

Ever listened to a random 80s song in your iPod, and then have a random person hum that same song when you pause the music and put the iPod away?

For a second today, I thought I heard a guy hum this song at the gym when I came there listening to it. He wasn't – but it got me thinking about the odds. Pretty high, right?

Here's my latest from nhl.com.

Looking at them also gave me an idea for an amazing car game for hockey nerds. You know, a game you play on the road. Not an away game. A car game you play while getting to your road game, a game you can play in the car, on your way to see Aunt Greta, with the kids.

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Here's my latest on IIHF.com.

The reasons may be deep-rooted in the culture, and the enforcers may also be just a fad. But Finns are a tough people who respect hard work, perseverance, and raw power. The weak will fall on the road of life, a Finnish proverb goes.

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The flood of memories that this clip gives me, is a tsunami, I tell you. A tsunami.