Pronouncing some Stanley Cup hockey names
By now, even the non-hockey fans are probably aware that the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup last night, their first championship since 1961. What you should also know is how to pronounce a few of the names you might see in the papers or in highlights over the next couple days. Jonathan Toews = “Taves” [...]
Monday Morning Water Cooler
If you were busy enjoying the outdoors this weekend, Dinner Topics is here to give you the quick rundown on what you missed inside the past few days: That crazy looking movie, Get Him to the Greek, debuted at #2 (behind the latest Shrek movie) and received mostly positive reviews. The Celtics beat the Lakers [...]
Weekend Roundup
It’s Memorial Day weekend, so the odds are that you will be visiting with friends and family over the next couple days. Look back at the past week of posts for a quick recap, and here’s a few more things you might need to know before the “barbie” starts “cuing”: Sex and the City 2 [...]
NHL’s Original Six should be called Remaining Six
The Stanley Cup begins tonight as the Philadelphia Flyers face the Chicago Blackhawks. The Flyers have faced almost insurmountable odds to get to this point (including a 3-0 deficit in games in the Eastern Conference Semifinals and a 3-0 goal deficit in Game 7 of the series), and for a while it was looking like the [...]
History of the Stanley Cup
A few nights ago, HoganHusband and I went to a local watering hole to watch the Washington Capitals lose in the playoffs to the Pittsburgh Penguins (ouch!), and I got to wondering what this particular Cup signified, and where it came from. The Stanley Cup, I learned, is the oldest professional sports trophy in North [...]
