Kid Pudi & Sammy OB sing Danglefest

Red Wings Rap song written for the 2002 Stanley Cup Playoffs

Miggy raps I Love Hockey

K-dizzle & T-rizzle perform The Hockey Rap

Nike Bauer Rap Off from 2008 – LA Selects player Nicholas Klishko Raps a Cool Song

This video from Shintyjust4fun.com is there third video from 2009 with more great Field Hockey tricks

This video from Shintyjust4fun.com is there second video fro 2007 with more great Field Hockey Tricks

This video from Shintyjust4fun.com is there first video from 2006, that includes many great tricks for Field Hockey

A fun video game by FlashCartoons.org and FlashZombies.com

Jeremy Roenick dancing to a Bee Gees song at L A Kings Vs Colorado Avalanche game

Snickers Candy Bar commercial with 2 Referee’s fighting over bad call

Some rough Field Hockey action from Gossip Girl stars Serena & Blair

Adidas film shoot with 7 Field Hockey Stars – Naomi van As – Netherlands, Emilie Mol – Netherlands, Janne Müller-Wieland – Germany, Jamie Dwyer – Australia, Barry Middleton – England, Taeke Taekema – Netherlands, Christopher Zeller – Germany

Gagan Ajit Singh is an Indian Field Hockey Legend

Field Hockey World Cup Song for India 2010

Rick Mercer visits The Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, and helps to change the Ice Hockey rink after a Maple Leafs game in a hardcourt for Basketball

Rick Mercer does a spoof on Beer Commercials – Headshot Lager

Rick Mercer visits Gananoque, Ontario for the 1000 Islands Pond Hockey Championships 2011

City of Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion play’s some Ice Hockey with Rick Mercer at 1:57 to 3:20 of this video

A German Playoff Ice Hockey game on May 7, 2010, where 77,000 fans chant, do the wave & curse in the Arena auf Schalke. Weltrekord, Germany

Andreas Athanasiou from the London Knights of the OHL, scores a real beauty of a shootout goal at the 2011 NHL research and development camp

A New Classic Ice Hockey Poem by Jennifer Spruit – Very Well Done

Dave Bedini looks at where Al Purdy wrote some classic Ice Hockey Poetry

A collection of short poems spoken by Roberto Luongo

Many great reasons to hold The World Cup of Hockey in August & September of 2012
Look at the history of dates with the first two World Cup of Hockey tournaments, the first one in 1996, starting on on August 26th, and the championship game being played on September 14, 1996. The second one in 2004, starting on August 30th, and the championship game being played on September 14, 2004.
These first two World Cup of Hockey tournaments were held 8 years apart – 2012 is again 8 years later
Let’s look at where The World Cup of Hockey games were played, and some important stats.
1996
*Corel Centre – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
*Corestates Centre – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
*Garmish Olympia Stadium – Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
*General Motors Place – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
*Globen – Stockholm, Sweden
*Helsinki Ice Hall – Helsinki, Finland
*Madison Square Garden – New York City, New York, USA
*Molson Centre – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
*Sportovni hala – Prague, Czech Republic

Total attendance for 19 games played – N/A
Champion – USA
MVP – Mike Richter – USA
Scoring Leader – Brett Hull – USA
All Star Team – (G) Mike Richter, USA – (D) Calle Johansson, Sweden – Chris Chelios, USA – (F) Brett Hull, USA – Mats Sundin, Sweden – John Leclair, USA

2004
*Air Canada Centre – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
*Bell Centre – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
*Globe Arena – Stockholm, Sweden
*Hartwall Areena – Helsinki, Finland
*Kölnarena – Cologne, Germany
*Sazka Arena – Prague, Czech Republic
*Xcel Energy Center – St. Paul, Minnesota,

Total attendance for 19 games played – 303,630
Champion – Canada
MVP – Vincent Lecavalier – Canada
Scoring Leader – Fredrik Modin – Sweden
All Star Team – (G) Martin Brodeur, Canada – (D) Adam Foote, Canada – Kimmo Timonen, Finland – (F) -Vincent Lecavalier, Canada – Saku Koivu, Finland – Fredrik Modin, Sweden

As you can see, The World Cup of Hockey is truly a World Class Event, played in large Ice Hockey cities
This tournament needs to expand to other cities, and not play multiple games at any one arena. The Championship Game should always be played in the largest arena available, or because this is a NHL sanctioned competition, have the Championship Game played in the city of the current Stanley Cup Champions.

The National Hockey League (NHL) controls this event, just as the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) controls the Winter Olympic Ice Hockey games & World Ice Hockey Championships. These two organizations have been learning to work together for years, and the game of Ice Hockey keeps improving as a result. Both of these organizations run FIRST CLASS EVENTS, and the end result every year is proof !

As fans of the sport of Ice Hockey, we have to let these organizations know that we too would like a say in the location of games being played. Right now the decisions are being made by politics, team owners and high ranking officials with-in the 2 organizations. We can help influence these decisions – REMEMBER we the fans are also the ones that pay the admission to the games and buy the merchandise from the events – without us, there is no success of these World Class Ice Hockey Games being played. We should write/email our support and suggestions to both the NHL and IIHF. We can make a difference, and we can make changes to the game we love, but instead of talking about this through forums & blogs – We ask you to DO IT. Take some time from your schedule, send a letter, write a email to these organizations and let them know what you think, give them some suggestions. Don’t be rude, or your effort will be wasted & discarded.

We have idea’s where games should be played too. Both Russia and Slovakia enter teams into The World Cup of Hockey, but have not seen any games played in their own country. In North America, the eastern cities/arenas get all the games (except Vancouver in 1994). What about the cities/arenas in California, or Edmonton, Calgary and now Winnipeg also deserve a chance to host a World Cup of Hockey game.

The World Cup of Hockey is truly a unique sporting event, the only sport in the world where games are played in different countries, leading to The Championship Game (or games) being played in North America – the birth place of the game we all love – ICE HOCKEY

Here are links for all stats to both the 1996 & 2004 World Cup of Hockey events.
1996 World Cup of Hockey
2004 World Cup of Hockey

Write those letters – Send those emails to both Mr. Gary Bettman, NHL & René Fasel, IIHF. Let them both know you want World Cup of Hockey back, and bigger and better then ever. You have choices in your life – NOW MAKE SOME