Warm, sunny destinations! California! Phoenix! (For one more year, anyway.) Dallas! (They’re on the Atlantic, not the Pacific, but the NHL does hockey, not geography.)
It’s Pucked in the Head’s 2011-12 Pacific Division preview, in which we utterly fail to convey the magnitude of the Dallas Stars’ 2012 suckage!
Original Six powerhouses! Nouveau expansion also-rans! And the St Louis Blues!
It’s Pucked in the Head’s 2011-12 Central Division preview – complete with a pre-season chat with Nashville Predators expert Buddy Oakes from Preds on the Glass!.
From August 26th to September 5th, 2011, an amazing group of forty women will be playing hockey continuously in an attempt to set the Guinness world record for the longest hockey game ever played. The record will be broken around 10:00am on Labour Day.
We challenge you to get down to Burnaby 8-Rinks and, whether it be with your wallet, your time or just your voice, contribute to this great event. For more information, why not read our Seven Things about the Longest Game article as you listen?
Over a month after the Boston Bruins quite literally broke the Vancouver Canucks’ back – well, okay, one of their backs, anyway – Chris Withers is still bitter about the whole thing. We decided to get together to shoot the breeze anyway.
Pucked in the Head is so giddy about seeing the Vancouver Canucks in the Stanley Cup final, they were barely able to contain themselves long enough to put together a podcast prior to Game 1. But here it is, in all its season-ending glory, with a few jokes about severed fingers and Japanese monster movies thrown in for good measure. We hope you enjoy.
The Canucks have no decent nicknames at the moment, unless you count Sami Salo’s Balls of Steel. With guests Kennedy Goodkey and Rob Tarzwell, we look back over the forty years of team history to discuss the best nicknames in Vancouver Canucks history. Here’s part one.
Intro by the Orchid Highway
Top Seven Canuck Nicknames of All Time, Part I
#7 – “The Russian Rocket”
#6 – “Bones”
#5 – “Spider”
#4 – “Cowan the Bra-barian”
Outro by the Orchid Highway
Thanks for listening
Neener neener neener
Guests
Kennedy Goodkey
Centre
Shoots right
Chirpy, with bad knees, but tends to score big goals in the playoffs.
Kennedy is an actor, writer and film-maker in Vancouver, BC. You can check out his YouTube series Best Picture, or his serialized novel Necropolis, or see his film The Beast of Bottomless Lake on Super Channel in Canada. Kennedy grew up watching the Canucks, but admits not getting a true handle on just how deep the roots were till he hit university. Ironically, that’s about the time the Canucks had a decent team for the first time.
Rob Tarzwell
Defense
Shoots right
5’4″
140 lbs
Dig, dig, dig. Check like you won’t survive. Inadvertently screen the goalie as often as possible.
Dr. Rob Tarzwell is a Vancouver psychiatrist with a second specialty in nuclear medicine. His clinical interests include the use of radiotracers to study blood flow, glucose utilization, and neuroreceptors in brain disease and psychiatric disorders. Speaking of psychiatric disorders, Dr Rob has been a fan of the Canucks since 1988, when Gretzky got traded to the Kings. He narrowly escaped the 1994 game 7 riots downtown Vancouver, and still sometimes wakes up in cold sweat to the sound of a ringing post.
The Vancouver Canucks are the first team in the expansion era to lead the NHL in both goals for and goals against. Daniel Sedin won the Art Ross trophy, and they won the Presidents’ Trophy going away. Will that push them through to their first Stanley Cup? Pucked in the Head explores the first round of the 2011 playoffs, Western Conference style.
Every year, we try to wrap our pretty little heads around the playoff picture. We fail miserably, but we hope you’ll enjoy listening to us devolve into grunting, excrement-flinging monopods during this 20-minute chat anyway.
Cathy Chuchro
Defense
Shoots right
Famous for a spinorama and a mean left hook
Since the age of 11, Cathy Chuchro (a.k.a. @keslergirl) knew that acting was her passion. After High School drama and a few nudges from her teacher, she enrolled in the Theatre Studies program at Red Deer College and continued on with the Motion Picture Arts program. Appearing in numerous plays and films that went onto various festivals around the world, Cathy is also co-founder of Ignition Theatre, a company that helps emerging artists gain professional experience. Cathy has always been a hockey fan, but attending her first Canucks game solidified it. The moment Ryan Kesler stepped onto the ice Cathy became intrigued. His passion, determination, and drive for the game – as well as media attention being in the spotlight – is something she can relate to. She continues to audition and perform for productions in Vancouver, and Ryan still inspires her to dream big. Case in point, Cathy looks forward to the day she’s modeling for the RK17 line.
Kennedy Goodkey
Rob Tarzwell
Cathy Chuchro