there is too much going on

in hockey right now. going right from the Olympics to 12 NHL games today (and one yesterday) and the trade deadline tomorrow. since I'm not trying to be the timeliest blog around, I'll still post my favorite links and screenshots and photos of last month. but a few quick notes now. I know I WILL be glued to Twitter & blogs before the trade deadline Wed. afternoon, and until I have to leave to go to the Blackhawks' first post-Olympics home game. even though I'm not wild about trade deadline stuff. some of it is for the reasons listed in this piece; some because maybe I just haven't been following the sport long enough.

 

some trade news so far: well, interesting that a couple of the Hawks' minor-league deals involve former Bruins picks/players (Hannu Toivonen, Nick Boynton). and Chris Chelios officially getting signed to the Atlanta Thrashers at age 48? whoa. looks like he'll stay here with the Chicago Wolves (I've seen him in several games) unless they really need him. (I'd been wondering, with all the injuries the Red Wings had this year, if Detroit would ever be desperate enough to get him back for a few games.) obviously he's the oldest player in the NHL, and has the most penalty minutes of any active NHL player...because he's played more NHL seasons than many of my blog/Twitter hockey friends have been alive. and with Alexei Ponikarovsky going to Pittsburgh from Toronto...the Penguins have the only two Ukrainian-born players in the NHL that I know of (Ruslan Fedotenko is the other). (the Bruins' Johnny Boychuk has a name that looks Ukrainian to me, but he's from Canada.)

 

other news (not involving the horrible losses for the teams I follow tonight...): my first podcast appearance yesterday went reasonably well and I'll have a little post about it. I realized I might have to create a Facebook page so people can be "fans" of this blog, and get updates. and today I confirmed that in a week I'll be taking a friend to her first hockey game--my first time taking someone to their first game. (Calgary @ Detroit, so there'll be a few Olympians to point out...)

oh and if you like trendy Internet crap, I gave in and got a formspring account, where you can ask me questions (anonymously or not). from my Twitter followers who have them, I got the impression people just want to ask female hockey fans which players they'd have sex with. I seem to be immune to questions like that (relief? disappointment?). if you're bored, ask me things (not just about sports)!

(images above from Better Ice Hockey for Boys, 1965)

How to Tend Goal: Better Ice Hockey for Boys, 1965

so last week I posted the Dit Clapper cigarette ad from 1941 and called it one of the greatest things I've ever seen. this is another. I first saw this book in Rodney's Bookstore in Cambridge, MA when my friend showed me the store last year. it's an amazing 6000 sf, 2-story used bookstore. just the baseball section is as big as the entire sports section in most used bookstores. I looked at the hockey books last time and thought this one was cute, but didn't buy it then because I wasn't really into hockey. this time I knew what nearly all the (mostly hard-to-find, out-of-print) hockey books were about, so I bought a few. I'll share them with you, but first my favorite part of Better Ice Hockey for Boys:

love this guy! I'm tempted to use his photo as my icon on SB Nation, at least until someone asks if it's a childhood photo of myself (I'm kind of gender-neutral when posting there). maybe more resemblance than I'd like *cries*

anyway, here's the rest of the goaltending section; of course you'll want to click on these to view large and get all the advice (I never try to resize these, so it shows up way too big when you do that)

 

 

the book is by George Sullivan, a freelance writer and WWII Navy veteran born in Lowell, Massachusetts. the goalie pictured above is named in the credits and I tried searching his name online...