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Calgary Hitmen 2011 Teddy Bear Toss Was A Hit! (Video)
Every season for the past 17 years the Calgary Hitmen have held their annual Petro-Canada Teddy Bear Toss Game. It is a popular event that urges fans to come out to the Saddledome for a pre-etablished game and throw as many fluffy, stuffed animals as they can onto the ice following the Hitmen’s first goal. [...]
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Line Brawl Erupts During WHL Game (Video)
The dying seconds of Sunday’s WHL game between the Swift Current Broncos and the Portland Winterhawks may not have provided 439 minutes in penalties, like we witnessed during a Finnish league game earlier in the weekend, but they did give us a rather entertaining line brawl that also included a spirited bout between both team’s [...]
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WHL’s Curt Gogol Gives Us This Left-Handed KO (Video)
Southpaws in hockey can be the most dangerous fighters at times. Just when you think you have their right arm all tied up with a fist full of jersey, they start swinging with their free left hand. A barrage of punches later and you wake up on the ice wondering what just happened. That was [...]
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Untimely Fall Results In Goal Post To The Groin For Linesman (Video)
It may not be quite as embarrassing as going through puberty in the midst of explaining a call to the fans in attendance during an NHL game, but falling to the ice and sliding groin first into the goal post is pretty damn close. I have always wondered if referees wear jock straps while officiating [...]
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Calgary Hitmen Fans Shower The Ice With Teddy Bears (Video)
It’s almost Christmas time! And that means it is Teddy Bear Toss time in Calgary! At about this time each year the Calgary Hitmen ask their fans to bring teddy bears to a game and when the first goal is scored by the Hitmen those in attendance shower the ice with the stuffed animals. This [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night – A Two-Round Bout From The WHL – 10/20/10
With zero fights coming from last night’s four NHL games, we decided to search through North America’s other hockey leagues to find our “Frozen Fisticuffs Fight of the Night”. That search took us to the Western Hockey League, where Wes Vannieuwenhuizen of the Vancouver Giants and Mitchell Callahan of the Kelowna Rockets squared off for [...]
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Tri-City’s Brendan Shinnimin Delivers A Vicious Hit-From-Behind (Video)
Hits to the head appear to be getting all the attention in hockey these days, but the most disgusting act of disregard for the safety of other players remains the vicious check-from-behind. Those on the receiving end of such hits are not only susceptible to similar head injuries, resulting from going into the boards head [...]
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Wheaton King And The Brandon Wheat Kings Are A Match Made In Heaven
Total Pro Sports – When we introduced you to Destinee Hooker of the Texas Longhorns, we commented on how an individual’s name can often dictate their future career path. While that was not the case for Destinee, it sure was for Wheaton King. When he was born in the city of Brandon, Manitoba seventeen years [...]
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Windsor Spitfires Win The Memorial Cup “Farewell To All Those Bad Playoff Beards”
Total Pro Sports – Yesterday afternoon, Memorial Cup History was made as the Windsor Spitfires became the first team ever lose their first two games of the tournament and go on to win the Championship. They beat the WHL champion Kelowna Rockets 4-1 to take the crown, the OHL’s first since the London Knights won [...]
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Is This Hockey Or The WWE?
Total Pro Sports- Last night in the WHL, the Tri-City Americans took on the Spokane Chiefs in a fight-filled affair. The game ended in 5-2 win for Americans, but the real story was a huge brawl that erupted near the end of the third period. “Up 5-1 going into the third period, the game began [...]
