Writer’s Note: Interestingly enough, I’ve been working on this since the day the suspension came out. I listened to the “Pucknuts” podcast today, and they almost exactly echoed my sentiments. In a recent game against the Minnesota Wild, Rick Rypien, a fourth-line thug from…
In 2003, I moved to Houston, TX from Southern Illinois. In the North, it’s quite easy to be a hockey fan. One has several different teams of which to be a fan, and people talk about Hockey on a regular basis. In Houston, there…