Author Archives: alifeofknuckleballs
My favourite play of the last 8 days
This is my favourite play of the last eight days:
Vancouver led 2-0 over Chicago after the 2nd period, and the pick here was to choose “no next goal.” It wasn’t my own pick, but I listened to an expert’s live analysis and decided to put $100 down.
I remember back in the summer, an administrative assistant at a place that I was helping out with asked me if she could invest $300 in what I do, ie. hand $300 to me and help her invest. I explained that the NBA/NHL seasons didn’t begin until October. I said to wait until then. She said okay.
Then she, along with the management there, for some other reasons didn’t call me back for jobs. Oh well.
Here are the best of the rest for these past eight days. For most of these, I relied on expert analysis before picking them.
“So You Want to Work in Sports” in paperback
My publisher for my 2022 book So You Want to Work in Sports is going to release a paperback version of it this fall. That’s awesome! The publisher informed me late this week.
U18 Female Hockey Play-by-Play all weekend
From January 5 to January 7 (Friday to Sunday), 2024, the BC Elite Hockey League’s U18 Female Division held a showcase in Richmond, and I was asked to do their games…and I ended up calling:
- three games on Friday
- five games on Saturday (with the first game starting at 8 a.m. and the last one beginning at 6:45 p.m. – back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back)
- two games on Sunday
Saturday was exhausting for sure — my legs were sore from standing for the entire day. But it was a great experience. Here are some of the highlights:
The “empty-net game” – one of the more interesting games I’ve called
Here are some of the highlights of a British Columbia Elite Hockey League (BCEHL) game that I called in December 2023 – a contest that I’ll refer to as the “empty-net game”:
One of the most interesting games I’ve called…
On Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023, I called one of the most interesting games ever…. Here’s an excerpt (which I wrote) of the game itself:
On Sunday at the Oval, the Canadians again outshot the Giants, this time by a margin of 40-28. GVC goaltender Liam Leslie stopped all 25 shots he faced, as the only Giants goals were empty-netters, with the Canadians employing a 6-on-5 attack (or 6-on-4 during some power plays) at various points during the contest (at least eight separate occasions). Joshua Mytton scored two goals in the first two periods as the two teams battled to a 2-2 tie in the second before Aidan Yao gave GVC a 3-2 lead with 3:35 left in the period. The Giants tied it up with 8:17 remaining in regulation, their third empty-netter of the game, but Neven Heer scored only 21 seconds after that to give the Canadians the lead for good. Aidan Mark then added an insurance goal with only 1:27 left to close out the victory.
By my count (because I was actually looking at the goalie and at the bench to see if/when the coach would signal the goaltender to skate to the bench), there were eight separate times that this tactic happened. The first time it happened, it was in the first minute of the game and completely threw me off.
Also, in this game, at the start of the third period, the camera person had not returned from the intermission break, so I manned the camera for four minutes. All in all, an interesting day.
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