Patches of Hockey

justin sourdif found exactly where everyone predicted: practicing saucer passes with travis konecny

Somehow I was only today years old when I learned about that time Ovi ripped his pants trying to sweep a curling stone in Calgary.

HELLO???

I think the thing about Tom Wilson is that he strikes me as an actual professional in the aspect that game time is game time, and that’s not home time. Like, he is at work, he is here to do a job, and to do it passionately and to do it to the best of his ability. So he throws punches and gets in guys faces. However, off the ice he is out in the community, doing volunteer stuff and he can laugh with a guy who he just threw hands with two days ago. Because that was work but this is not.

hockey art at smithsonian museum of american art

left: "Bobby Hull" by LeRoy Neiman

hockey art at smithsonian museum of american art

And when we needed him most… Martin Fehervary appeared in a hello kitty penis hat to remind us everything would be okay