With a new hockey season upon us, I’m dusting off a piece I wrote in 2011 for my short-lived online hockey magazine, Pennsylvania Puck. Here’s an aphorism worthy of the farmer’s almanac: old Zambonis don’t die, they just keep resurfacing.…
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Feb 22
The U.S. still wins, but there’s another call of 1980 hockey upset of Soviet Union
Everyone knows that Neil Armstrong, with his small step and giant leap, was the first man on the moon. But who was next down the ladder from the Eagle landing module onto the lunar surface? Give up? It was Buzz Aldrin,…
Feb 18
8 Pennsylvania connections to the ‘Miracle on Ice’
Thirty-five years ago this month, the underdog U.S. Olympic hockey team captured the gold medal in Lake Placid, N.Y. The heavily favored Soviet squad had to settle for silver and, thanks to a pre-Olympic tune-up in Erie, car wax (more…
