I’ll just throw this here, it’s been a busy day.
Anyway, Off The Post was reviewed at the On Frozen Blog. Yeay!
His stories revolve around the players, international hockey, and his personal hockey experiences. He also describes how he quit on hockey and how, like The Godfather, he got sucked back in…. Risto’s humor and storytelling will surely entertain you.
Check out the whole review here, the OTP site here, and On Frozen Blog here.
If you’ve been reading about hockey online, you’ve definitely read Paul Kukla, the Kukla of Kukla’s’ Korner. He truly is the hardest-working man in the business.
And now I can tell everybody that I’ve been interviewed by Paul Kukla himself, and we talked about, well, hockey, and Off The Post. That book of mine.
Click here to get to the interview, and then here to get the book.
Being an avid fan can’t be easy. Well, not just avid. An avid fan simply goes to all games so let me rephrase that. It can’t be easy to be a rabid, raving, crazy fan that lives his (or her) life through a hockey team.
A great parody here.
First, the original:
Then, the parody:
And here’s a reminder to check out the two previous posts before they get buried.
Dagens Nyheter, (“Daily News”), the biggest Swedish morning paper, had called the Swedish Elite League GMs to get the inside scoop of any upcoming trades. The trade deadline is January 31, so there are only a few hours – but no players – left.
One of the questions they asked the GMs was: “What has been the worst trade in your club’s history?”
Modo’s Erik Holmberg was in a positive frame of mind and replied: “I haven’t made that yet.”
I love it.
No, no, no, no, against the advice of my manager, I haven’t founded World Wrestling League.
No, that title is just something out of a story I wrote for the International Ice Hockey Federation this week.
This is what the season looks like for MODO: w, l, l, w, w, l, w, l, w, l, l, l, w, w, w, w, w, l, l, l, l, w, l, l, w, w, l, l, l, w, w, w, w, w, w, w, l, l.
You can see the story here. And here are the week’s columns on the Finnish Elite League’s site, if you like to read Finnish or want to print out a photo of me and stick into your wallet. Don’t like that photo? Here’s another hockey blog, still in Finnish. And, here… Well, you’re already here.
Modo published an interview with Peter Forsberg, who’s practicing with the club’s junior team his old team. He says that…
I’m off to play another game of rink bandy. Missed our last game, due to “scheduling problems.” I came there an hour too late.
Anyway, below you’ll find an nhl.com column about the sport and the team. And if you like that one, I’ve got a whole book – Off The Post – of columns for you.
This just out: “The Finnish journalist calls for a more civilized version of hockey where goons have no part in the game.”
When I was ten years old, I had a classmate who was a little hyperactive. He was an annoying little guy, always teasing others. Me, as well, although we were pretty good of friends.
Once, he banged my head against a brick wall.
The Hockey News has identified the “glue guys” in each NHL team. You know, the guys that may not be the biggest stars, but who are important to the team and hold it together. Two of the thirty glue guys were Finns.
Jere Lehtinen was the other one.