March 31st, 2013 at 6:55 pm » Comments (7)

I have been to Korean baseball games before and they were fun, but I never even knew Korea had its own professional hockey team: But, over time, I came to appreciate the quirks and quaint things that make Korea Baseball Organization games in many ways more interesting than their American counterparts. So, by the time I found my way to my first Asia League Ice Hockey game, I was more than ready to accept that while the quality of play might not be National Hockey League-caliber, the quality of the
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January 28th, 2013 at 3:09 am » Comments (2)

Busan Haps has an interesting post about Canadians playing hockey on the Imjim River during the Korean War.  The post is based on this article in the National Post which has a number of historic photographs from the war of Canadians playing hockey: “It was quite cold in the wintertime. We didn’t have much snow but we did have snow. And certainly the river in the shallow parts froze up,” said Goodman. “I can remember one game — and I think I have a picture of it — with me
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November 20th, 2012 at 11:34 am » Comments (4)

I’ve heard the people in Toronto are nuts about the NHL, now I believe it. If the NHL decides to flush the rest of the season, Toronto Maple Leafs fan Jim Vigmond is ready. The Ontario lawyer purchased a toilet from the home dressing room of Maple Leaf Gardens for $5,300 at an auction, according to the Toronto Star. Vigmond had been trying to score a 1967 Stanley Cup banner but he said the bidding became too steep, so he went for the toilet. And he was willing to go
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September 30th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (22)

Via KBS Global.