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September 15, 2014
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HOCKEY FREAK TO GEAR GEEK
CHRIS KIBUI, THE PASSIONATE content creator of Hockey Tutorial, gets some memorable messages, such as this one via Facebook. “I am LOLing, as a Canadian and 15-year hockey player, I would never guess I would be getting skate tips from a British-sound-ing black man. Awesome video, 100% detail, thank you for posting it, it was a lot of help…” Kibui isn’t just British-sounding: Hockey Tutorial (hockeytutorial.com) is based in Cambridge, England. Kibui usually plays 40 miles up the road in Peterborough, a small city that’s home to one of just 55 indoor rinks in the United Kingdom. “Me being probably the most minute demographic in hockey – black and English from Kenya – it’s pretty interesting the comments that get left,” Kibui said. “But I do enjoy reading them.” Hockey Tutorial’s equipment…
BLACK AND BLUE AND WHITE
FIVE MONTHS LATER, STEPHANE ROBIDAS’ right leg still swells up after a long workout. It’s going to be like that for about a year, he said. One last reminder of just how painful last season was for him. The veteran defenseman has been no stranger to injuries over his 13-year NHL career. He’s received a concussion from being sucker-punched in the face and had his nose and jaw broken in two incidents involving loose pucks. But last season, in which he broke his leg twice, was easily the worst. In November, he toe-picked while trying to block a centering pass and fractured his fibula. “I blacked out from the pain,” Robidas said. In April, after being traded from Dallas to Anaheim, Robidas got tangled up with another player and fell awkwardly on the…
FANS ASK P.K. TELLS ALL
WITH HIS ELECTRIC PERSONALITY AND penchant for making news, P.K. Subban has become one of the NHL’s most prominent and polarizing figures. In his five seasons, he’s been in the headlines for all sorts of reasons: his post-rookie contract bridge deal (and the brief negotiating impasse that caused him to miss the first four games of 2012-13); the racist slurs against him on social media in last spring’s series with the Boston Bruins; the perception of him being self-interested and a showboat; the Norris Trophy he won in 2013; his emergence as a bona fide on-ice star in the 2014 postseason; his bittersweet Olympic experience (he was chosen for Team Canada, but played only one preliminary game for the eventual gold medal-winners); and, most recently, the eight-year, $72-million contract extension he…
THN INBOX
SWEET SIOUX ALUM Just read your list, “Top 10 Performers in the Shootout” in the August issue and realized three of the 10 players listed played for the University of North Dakota: T.J. Oshie, Jonathan Toews and Zach Parise. Ed Keller, Wallkill, N.Y. MIXED MESSAGES I worked in major league baseball for 13 years. I knew the late Tony Gwynn and his family. As such I became very familiar with the can of “dip” in the proverbial back pocket of ballplayers. It seems odd to me that you would print an article on the risks of smokeless tobacco (Time For Hockey To Spit It Out, August), yet in the Opening Faceoff you have a photo of Thomas Vanek throwing a baseball with an obvious can of “dip” in his left pocket. Jim Nevins, Temecula, Calif. No…
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