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  • TXHT Jersey Share – 2017 NHL All-Star Game Atlantic Division

    TXHT Jersey Share – 2017 NHL All-Star Game Atlantic Division

    Today in the TXHT Jersey Share series where Dickson briefly discusses one of the four jerseys the NHL put out for the 2017 NHL All-Star Game.

     

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    Dickson: Each division had a different jersey, and I would go on to purchase the Atlantic Division jersey and the Purple version, which was worn by the Central Division. As the player versions were not available when I purchased them from Dick’s Sporting Goods, I went with the blank version of the jersey.

     

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    This would be the first year that Reebok would make four jerseys for the divisions in the All-Star Game. The Atlantic Division would only wear it for the one game in the All-Star Game tournament, losing to the Metropolitan Division, 10-6.

     

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  • TXHT Jersey Share – Olie the All Star

    TXHT Jersey Share – Olie the All Star

    Ladies and Gentlemen the TXHT Jersey Share series is going international once again, this time with Washington Capitals legend Olaf Kolzig’s 1998 World All Star jersey.

     

    Kolzig World AS White 1998 Front

     

    So for those who didn’t know the NHL went with a World versus North America format for the 1998 All Star Game in celebration of the first time the NHL was sending the players to the Olympics (which was a couple weeks after the All Star Break and was a total disaster), and it actually featured these really cool jerseys.

     

    Kolzig World AS White 1998 Back

     

    For the front of the jerseys it would be the NHL crest along with the respective country flag that player is from (or represents). For Kolzig it would be Germany for whom he has citizenship with and was representing at the Olympics shortly after the All Star Break. On the shoulders would be the 1998 All Star patch and the Capitals logo. The White jersey with Navy and Silver blends real smoothly, and makes for a nice design for a jersey.

     

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  • TXHT Jersey Share – A Hard Find

    TXHT Jersey Share – A Hard Find

    Some times a jersey is really hard to find, and this one was until recently. Today the TXHT Jersey Share series takes a look at the 1996 West All Star Jersey.

     

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    So I’ll fight anyone and everyone on this one, but the All Star jerseys used from 1994 to 1997 were hands down the best uniforms ever worn, and I have been trying to find both the West and East jerseys. Recently I was able to find the West, but the East still eludes me. Now while these jerseys are being labelled as from 1996, that is because I plan to get this jersey customized to Wayne Gretzky for 1996 which will include the 1996 Boston All Star patch and the old Los Angeles Kings logo patch on the shoulders. Once I get the East I plan to have it customized to Peter Bondra also with the 1996 Boston All Star patch and the old Washington Capitals logo patch on the shoulders.

     

    Also fun fact, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this jersey design is what inspired the Dallas Stars alternates, then eventual home and road uniforms, that they wore in the late 1990’s and early 200’s, and also wore when they won the Stanley Cup in 1999.

     

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  • A Whale Of A Time In Nashville

    A Whale Of A Time In Nashville

    The NWHL hosted their All Star festivities in Nashville, TN this past weekend. The best players from all five teams came down and showcased their talents in front of an electric Nashville crowd. The skills competition was held at the Ford Ice Center, the practice facility for the Predators; while the All Star Game itself was at the Bridgestone Arena in Downtown Nashville.

    The Whale had originally sent five players down, but Meeri Räisänen could not attend as she was called up to the Finnish National Team. [Congrats are in order for her!]

    The four players that did go to the All Star game were Shannon Doyle, Emily Fluke, Michelle Löwenhielm, and Katerina Mrázová.

    Doyle and Mrázová played for Team Szabados; Fluke and Löwenhielm played for Team Stecklein.

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    Photo from nwhl.zone

     

    Skills Competition

    Only two skills competition events were needed for the Whale players as it was Mrázová vs Fluke in the trick shot challenge, and it was Löwenhielm vs Doyle in the hardest shot competition.

     

    At the end of the six events, it was tied at three apiece. A best two out of three shootout was required between Beauts goalie Shannon Szabados and Whitecaps defender Lee Stecklein. Szabados stopped all the attempts by Stecklein, giving Shannon Doyle and Katerina Mrázová the bragging rights so far over the weekend.

     

    All Star Game

    The All Star Game took place at Bridgestone Arena after the Blues v. Predators game, in which the St. Louis Blues proved victorious in overtime.

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    Also, it wouldn’t be Nashville without someone throwing a catfish on the ice that landed right by Shannon Doyle just before the opening faceoff.

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    The All Star game was two 25 minute halves of four on four hockey. The Whale had a really spectacular showing in Nashville. After Riveters forward Audra Richards gave Team Szabados the 1-0 lead, Whale defender Shannon Doyle had a great rush up the left side of the ice. She got to the left circle, she made a great drop pass to Katerina Mrázová, who then roofed it over Nicole Hensley’s shoulder to give Team Szabados the 2-0 lead heading into halftime.

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    After some halftime music by a live band at Bridgestone Arena, the second half began with Team Stecklein chasing a 2-0 lead. Team Stecklein would get a goal back when Beauts forward Lisa Chesson redirected a shot from Pride forward Gigi Marvin which found the back of the net. A few shifts would go by without a goal, but during that goalless break, we got to see some pretty spectacular defending at the blue line from Michelle Löwenhielm. Later in the half, Emily Fluke would net a five hole goal that tied the game at two. We also got to see an awesome celly between the Team Stecklein players:

     

    At the end of the second half, the game was tied at two. Just like yesterday’s skills competition, the game would require a shootout to determine a winner. In the shootout, there would only be one goal, and it came from Riveters forward Amanda Kessel. It would give Team Szabados the victory and the sweep for the weekend!

     

    It was a pretty historic All Star weekend, the best part about it was the attendance by the Nashville faithful. The recorded attendance was 6, 120, which set a record for largest crowd for a women’s hockey game in the United States!

     

    Not to mention that All Star MVP and Beauts goalie Shannon Szabados talked about the amazingness of nearly ONE MILLION people that watched over the weekend!

     

    Here is my favorite photo from the weekend!:

     

     

    The Whale have three games left on the season, all of them will be home games. The first game will be against the Boston Pride on February 24th at Terry Conners Rink. Puck drop for that game will be 3p EST. The game will be a Twitter Game of the Week, and you can watch that here: https://twitter.com/nwhl

     

    Tweets from Women’s Sports Highlights and Anya Battaglino were used with their permission. You can follow them here: @WSportHilites and @battaglinoa

  • TXHT at the NWHL All Star Festivities!

    TXHT at the NWHL All Star Festivities!

    The NWHL hosted their All Star festivities in Nashville, TN this past weekend. The best players from all five teams came down and showcased their talents in front of an electric Nashville crowd. The skills competition was held at the Ford Ice Center, the practice facility for the Predators; while the All Star Game itself was at the Bridgestone Arena in Downtown Nashville.

    Here’s how the rosters looked for the weekend:

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    Photo from nwhl.zone

    Skills Competition

    It was a full house at the Ford Ice Center for the NWHL skills competition; people gathered to watch the players have fun and show off. The first event was the fastest skater, in which Kristin Lewicki won the event last year. This year had the likes of Michelle Picard, Amanda Pelkey, Lexi Bender, and Kendall Coyne Schofield for Team Szabados; and Lisa Chesson, Jonna Curtis, Kate Schipper, and Allie Thunstrom for Team Stecklein. If anyone saw the NHL’s fastest skater competition, knows that Coyne was going to be the odds on favorite, and she delivered. Coyne was actually faster than when she did the NHL’s event, [14.3 for the NHL and 13.9 for the NWHL].

    The next competition was the fastest goalies, in which Amanda Leveille returned to defend her title. All four goalies Katie Burt, Amanda Leveille, Shannon Szabados, and Nicole Hensley skated. The final showdown came in the form of a “battle of the teammates” Szabados v Hensley, and it was Nicole Hensley who claims bragging rights.

    Accuracy shooting was up next, where Corinne Buie was the winner last year. The three shooters for Team Szabados were Haley Skarupa, Haley Scamurra, and Savannah Harmon and the three shooters for Team Stecklein were Hannah Brandt, Dani Cameranesi, and Emily Pfalzer. In the end, it was Dani Cameranesi who proved to be the most accurate!

    Talents were on display during the next event, which was the trick shot challenge. All of the skaters have great hands and great creative minds. For Team Szabados it was Amanda Kessel, Madison Packer, and Katerina Mrázová and for Team Stecklein it was Gigi Marvin, Emily Fluke, and Jillian Dempsey. In this particular event, the fans got to vote for the winner of the competition. The event had everything, from Amanda Kessel doing the Flying V from the Mighty Ducks, to Madison Packer with a smooth spin-o-rama attempt that almost scored, to Emily Fluke throwing a cowboy hat, and having her second shot saved by Katie Burt with her back toward her.

    In the end it was Team Stecklein who won over the fans and getting their vote.

    Up next was the hardest shot competition with players who can really bring the heat on their slapshots. Last years winner of the event was Kelsey Koezler, and the players looking to take the title were, for Team Szabados were Shannon Doyle, Amanda Boulier, Audra Richards, and Blake Bolden; and for Team Stecklein were Michelle Löwenhielm, Alyssa Gagliardi, Courtney Burke, and the captain Lee Stecklein. There were a lot of really hard shots, but Blake Bolden won with her shot reaching 80 mph!

    The last event was a go for goal shootout relay in which all the skaters for Team Szabados and Team Stecklein took shootout attempts, and the team with the most goals was declared the winner. After some pretty nifty attempts, it was Team Stecklein who won the event.

    This meant at the end of all competitions, both teams were tied at three wins a piece. It meant that to settle it in a tiebreaker, it was captain vs captain in a best two out of three shootout attempts. Szabados made all the saves and her team won the Skills Competition!

    Audio from Dani Cameranesi of the Buffalo Beauts [Team Stecklein]

    Audio from Kendall Coyne Schofield of the Minnesota Whitecaps [Team Szabados]

    All Star Game

    The All Star Game took place at Bridgestone Arena after the Blues v. Predators game, in which the St. Louis Blues proved victorious in overtime.

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    It wouldn’t be Nashville without someone throwing a catfish on the ice that landed right by Shannon Doyle just before the opening faceoff.

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    Both teams skated to two 25 minute halves of four on four hockey. In the first half, Team Szabados jumped out to the lead, the goal coming from the Riveters rookie forward Audra Richards. Richards, who has eight goals on the year continues her scoring prowess by getting the opening marker. Later in the half, Shannon Doyle led the rush and made a nice drop pass on top of the circle, and it fell on the stick of leading Connecticut Whale scorer Katerina Mrázová, who roofed the shot over Nicole Hensley. The goal gave Team Szabados a 2-0 lead heading into halftime.

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    During the intermission, and because Nashville is known as Music City, there was some live music being played while we waited for the second half.

    The second half had a lot of good back and forth action and then Gigi Marvin took a shot from the point which got redirected by Lisa Chesson and it found the net beating Katie Burt. The goal cut the Team Szabados lead in half. Later in the half, the game would be tied at two as Whale captain Emily Fluke netting a five hole goal!

    Both goalies [Leveille and Burt] made really incredible saves and at the end of the second half, the score was tied at two. The game moved into a shootout in which Amanda Kessel was the first shooter and she beat Leveille five hole. Then Katie Burt stopped all three Team Stecklein attempts, giving the victory to Team Szabados!

    The best part about the All Star Game weekend was the attendance by the Nashville faithful. The recorded attendance was 6, 120, which set a record for largest crowd for a women’s hockey game in the United States!

    Audio from Amanda Kessel of the Metropolitan Riveters [Team Szabados]:

    Audio from Jonna Curtis of the Minnesota Whitecaps [Team Stecklein]:

    Audio from Shannon Szabados of the Buffalo Beauts [Team Szabados]:

    Audio from Lee Stecklein of the Minnesota Whitecaps [Team Stecklein]:

    Tweet from Women’s Sports Highlights and Anya Battaglino were used with their permission. You can follow them on Twitter here: @WSportHilites and @battaglinoa

  • TXHT Podcast – 2/9/2019

    TXHT Podcast – 2/9/2019

    The TXHT podcast is back with Serious Hockey Talk for Serious Hockey Fans!

     

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    This week on TXHT, Michael Lindenbaum is joined by our friend from The Hockey Writers Nate Oliver.

     

    For the first half of the show both Michael and Nate talk about the NWHL All Star Weekend, take a look at the playoffs that are coming sooner than you think.

     

    Then Michael and Nate talk about the Capitals. They discuss the pending Trade Deadline and Todd Reirden.

     

    This week’s episode was recorded on Friday, February 8th, 2019

    Opening Music: “Human Chess” by Crimson Orchid

     

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  • TXHT Podcast – 2/2/2019

    TXHT Podcast – 2/2/2019

    The TXHT podcast is back with Serious Hockey Talk for Serious Hockey Fans!

     

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    This week on TXHT, Michael Lindenbaum is joined by TXHT’s Toronto Maple Leafs writer Steve Gardiner.

     

    Michael and Steve start the episode off talking about the NHL All Star festivities and the impact the women had on the weekend, and also talk about the growing women’s game.

     

    Then Michael and Steve talk about the Washington Capitals and Toronto Maple Leafs. Plus a little NHL news, along with some NWHL updates, and some chatter about the Calgary Flames and 2019 Stadium Series uniforms.

     

    This week’s episode was recorded on Saturday, February 2nd, 2019

    Opening Music: “Human Chess” by Crimson Orchid

     

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  • NHL All-Star Game Recap

    NHL All-Star Game Recap

    After covering all weekend and mainly complaining through twitter about how bad the event was, I wanted to end the All-Star weekend with a recap and discuss some stuff.

    Personalities
    There were none. No Alexander Ovechkin, No Jakub Voracek amongst others, made for a pretty boring skills competition and a little more competitive All-Game. Marc-Andre Fleury and Braden Holtby tried to keep it light, but it seemed that for a lot of players (especially the first timers) they had something to prove. Brent Burns and Joe Pavelski brought their children but they kind of just sat on the ice and got autographs.

    Matthews/Marleau
    In what was one of the more entertaining events to happen at the Skills Competition, Toronto Maple Leafs Sniper Auston Matthews was up to participate in the accuracy event. He began to drop his stick and pulled off his jersey and underneath was a Patrick Marleau Leafs jersey, The building erupted. The jersey was very tight on Matthews, but he tried to shoot with it on seemingly not caring about winning. I’m posting the video below, along with a tweet from Patrick Marleau’s wife to add some entertainment value.

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    and my final thought.

    Kendall Coyne Schofield/ Brianna Decker

    I’ve seen a lot of rumbling on twitter and facebook, actually if I’m quite honest some pretty disturbing and disgusting comments. I’m not here to bring them up or call out names, I’m here just to add a perspective with some thoughts. First Schofield, her lap was one of the most fantastic things I’ve seen in sports history. Why you ask? Because she was fast, she has serious talent and her showing up at the NHL All-Star game was not a publicity stunt, it was about Women’s Hockey and the Women being recognized for just how damn good they are. Women are not trying to take over the NHL, this isn’t wrestling people. They want to be recognized for how good they are too. Now let’s talk Decker, Leon Draisaitl of the won the NHL Premier Passer with a time of 1.09 but Decker came close to his time with a 1.12 after reviewing of the footage of her run. But even when Decker apparently had beaten Draisaitl’s time she never asked to be crowned the champion, in fact, she never really said much. That’s because it’s not about stealing thunder from any of the NHL players, it’s about how good the Women are and how little recognition they get. This is the event that gets turned down by most of the participants because of it’s level of difficulty, Decker was merely doing it to show how it worked. Let me close with this and then I’ll leave videos and tweets below of these wonderful women’s work. If you are a hockey fan anywhere in the world, then you care about hockey in general and how the sport grows. These women’s skills should be recognized and leagues like the NHL should help it grow like they are doing now, they never asked for handouts, they have worked their butts off just like any NHL player to get where they are. The NHL partnering with Women’s Hockey makes me a very happy hockey fan, as it should for you. Because they’re growing the sport we love and recognizing fantastic athletes.

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  • NHL ALL-STAR GAME RESULTS

    NHL ALL-STAR GAME RESULTS

    Game #1:

    Central 10 – Pacific 4

    Period 1:

    Central Goal – 01:03 –  Mikko Rantanen (1) assisted by Ryan O’Reilly (1)

    Central Goal – 01:33 – Gabriel Landeskog (1) assisted by Ryan O’Reilly(2)

    Pacific Goal – 04:51 – Erik Karlsson (1) assisted by John Gibson (1)

    Central Goal – 05:08 – Roman Josi (1) assisted by Patrick Kane (1)

    Central Goal – 05:31- Patrick Kane (1) assisted by Roman Josi (1) and Blake Wheeler (1)

    Central Goal – 06:39 –  Mark Scheifele (1) assisted by Ryan O’Reilly (3)

    Central Goal  – 07:50 – Mikko Rantanen (2) assisted by Gabriel Landeskog (1) and Mikko Rantanen (1)

    Central Goal – 08:11 – Patrick Kane (2) assisted by Blake Wheeler (2)

     

    2nd Period

    Central Goal – 00:42 – Gabriel Landeskog (2) assisted by Roman Josi (2) and Mikko Rantanen (2)

    Central Goal – 02:30 – Ryan O’Reilly (1) Unassisted

    Centra Goal – 04:36 – Gabriel Landeskog (3) assisted by Blake Wheeler (3)

    Pacific Goal – 04:47 –  Johnny Gaudreau (1) assisted by Connor McDavid (1)

    Pacific Goal – 05:52 – Erik Karlsson (2) assisted by Joe Pavelski (1) and Brent Burns (1)

    Pacific Goal –06:02 –  Brent Burns (1) assisted by Joe Pavelski (2)

     

    Goalies:

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    Pekka Rinne – 9 shots, 8 Saves and 889SV%

    Devan Dubnyk – 18 shots, 15 Saves and 833SV%

     

    Pacific

    Marc-Andre Fleury – 9 shots, 6 saves and 667SV%

    John Gibson – 9 Shots, 2 saves and 222SV%

     

    Game #2

    Metro 7 – Atlantic 4

    Period 1:

    Metro Goal – 00:15 –  Sidney Crosby (1) assisted by Matthew Barzal (1)

    Metro Goal – 01:56 – Seth Jones(1) assisted by Kyle Palmieri(1) and Cam Atkinson (1)

    Atlantic Goal – 02:04 – Jack Eichel (1) assisted by David Pastrnak (1)

    Atlantic Goal – 03:13 – Steven Stamkos (1) assisted by John Tavares (1)

    Central Goal – 09:40- Seth Jones (2) Unassisted

     

    2nd Period

    Atlantic Goal – 00:56 – Jeff Skinner (1) assisted by David Pastrnak (2)

    Atlantic Goal – 01:28 – John Tavares (1) assisted by Keith Yandle (1)

    Metro Goal – 03:37 – Sidney Crosby (2) assisted by Kris Letang (1)

    Metro Goal – 06:22 –  Kris Letang (1) unassisted

    Metro Goal – 08:22 – Sebastia Aho (1) assisted by Claude Giroux (1)

    Metro EN Goal –09:14 –  Cam Atkinson (1) assisted by Sidney Crosby (1)

     

    Goalies:

    Metro

    Henrik Lundqvist – 7 shots, 5 Saves and 714SV%

    Braden Holtby – 13 shots, 11 Saves and 846SV%

     

    Atlantic

    Jimmy Howard – 12 shots, 9 saves and 750SV%

    Andrei Vasilevskiy – 13 Shots, 10 saves and 769SV%

     

     

     

     

    Game #3

    Metro 10 – Central 5

    Period 1:

    Metro Goal – 00:22 –  Matthew Barzal (1) assisted Kris Letang (2)

    Metro Goal – 01:53 – Claude Giroux (1) assisted John Carlson (1)

    Metro Goal – 03:40 – Kris Letang (2) assisted by Matthew Barzal (2) and Sidney Crosby (2)

    Metro Goal – 08:16 – Kyle Palmieri (1) assisted by Seth Jones (1) and Sebastian Aho (1)

    Metro Goal – 09:55- Sidney Crosby (3) assisted Matthew Barzal (3)

     

    2nd Period

    Central Goal – 01:14 –Gabriel Landeskog (4) assisted by Ryan O’Reilly(3)

    Central Goal – 03:25 – Mikko Rantanen (3) assisted by Roman Josi (2)

    Metro Goal – 04:02 – Sidney Crosby (4) assisted by Matthew Barzal (4)

    Central Goal – 04:38-  Ryan O’Reilly (2) assisted by Roman Josi (3) and Patrick Kane (2)

    Metro Goal – 05:35 – Sebastia Aho (2) assisted by Cam Atkinson (2)

    Metro Goal –05:43 –  Cam Atkinson (2) unassisted

    Metro EN Goal – 07:16 – Matthew Barzal (2) assisted by Sidney Crosby (3) and Kris Letang (3)

    Central Goal – 08:30 – Mikko Rantanen (4) assisted by Gabriel Landeskog (2)  and Ryan O’Reilly (4)

    Central Goal – 08:50 – Blake Wheeler (1) assisted by Mikko Rantanen (3) and Gabriel Landeskog (3)

    Metro EN Goal – 09:08 – Cam Atkinson (3) assisted by Seth Jones (2)

     

    Goalies:

    Metro

    Henrik Lundqvist – 6 shots, 6 Saves and 1.00SV%

    Braden Holtby – 16 shots, 11 Saves and 688SV%

     

    Central

    Devan Dubnyk – 11 shots, 6 saves and 545SV%

    Pekka Rinne – 8 Shots, 5 saves and 625SV%

    Sidney Crosby named Game MVP, While the Metropolitan Division cruises to victory.50728451_368954297221950_753694918530039808_n

  • TXHT Podcast – 1/26/2019

    TXHT Podcast – 1/26/2019

    The TXHT podcast is back with Serious Hockey Talk for Serious Hockey Fans!

     

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    This week on TXHT, Michael Lindenbaum is joined by TXHT’s Toronto Maple Leafs writer Steve Gardiner.

     

    Michael and Steve take a look at the woes both the Washington Capitals and the Toronto Maple Leafs have been going through leading up the NHL All Star Break. Plus they also discuss some of the woes that have plagued the Edmonton Oilers leading up to their General Manager Peter Chirelli being fired, and lastly some talk about All Star Weekend.

     

    This week’s episode was recorded on Friday, January 25th, 2019

    Opening Music: “Human Chess” by Crimson Orchid

     

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