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Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)

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3/1/15: After G’s PPG

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Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most… human.

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Perry and Tanger: the newest BFFs

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It’s easy to say that family comes first. I absolutely love my children and my wife. But the mentality of a professional hockey player is that you never admit that you’re human. You never admit pain, especially if it’s pain that no one can see. The Penguins have been incredible about keeping me around the team while I deal with this second blood clot. It can be a very dark place to be away from the game. With my personality, I need to be around the guys. The coaches have requested that I be in every team meeting, and I’ve helped out with scouting. I travel with the team on flights under two hours and offer any insight I can from the press box. Up there, it’s a 2D game. Everything looks so easy. There’s so much room. Then you go down to ice level and it’s a 3D game. I’m quickly learning the limitations of my coaching ability: “Hey, why didn’t you see that passing lane?��� “Well, Duper, there was a guy right in my face jamming a stick into my ribs.” Some of the guys have started to call me Coach Duper. I laugh it off, but it’s killing me to wear my little suit while they’re putting on their gear. I’m 35. I know I don’t have much time left. But I’m getting out of that press box prison. I don’t care if it takes six months or a year or two years. I will get healthy. I will play in the National Hockey League again.

Pascal Dupuis, In my Blood  (via hazel-3017)

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Ever wondered what it’s like to have Sidney Crosby take your money? EXPERIENCE THAT NOW!

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is kris sitting on flower’s lap???

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The Colored Hockey League (CHL) existed 22 years before the NHL and is responsible for creating the framework for the game that is used today.  Slap shot, goalie leaving the net and using their bodies to cover the puck, all started with players in the Colored Hockey League.  Player Eddie Martin is said to be the first player to use the slap shot.

"The roots of Canadian hockey originated with the North American Indians but early African-Canadian players also helped shape the sport. By the mid-1890s, in an era when many believed blacks could not endure the cold, these African-Canadian athletes defied myths and developed a revolutionary style of hockey that was fast moving, tough, acrobatic, exciting, and entertaining.

During the late 1890s games between black club teams in Nova Scotian towns and cities were arranged by formal invitation. By 1900, however, the Coloured Hockey League of the Maritimes was created and was headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The Colored Hockey League produced players and athletes comparable to any in Canada. These Black Nova Scotians changed this winter game from the primitive “gentleman’s past-time” of the nineteenth century to the modern fast moving game of today.”

- See more at: http://www.blackpast.org/gah/coloured-hockey-league-maritimes-1890s-1920s#sthash.5gQaqPL6.dpuf

Read more on the CHL and black players in the NHL on this blog: http://nubianmoor.blogspot.com/2010/06/black-ice-lost-history-of-colored.html

Thereis also a book called Black Ice that chronicles the CHL.

The more you know.

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