We have an Air Hockey Grand Champion

and her name is...Elizabeth!!

She is UNTOUCHABLE!  (do you hear that, Chris E?)

And we got some action shots at the Highline:

 

The competition was fierce, but Elizabeth kept her cool to take home the grand prize: a copy of the limited edition  HOCKEY STAR EP by Jason Webley and friends...

See you Saturday for the ICE hockey - HTPC hopes the competition is up to our air hockey standards.

Everett, are you listening?

John Darnielle is a hockeyfan, too!

One of HTPC's favorite bands is the Mountain Goats, and now we learn (to our endless delight) that John Darnielle - the lead singer - wrote an article last month about the NHL All-Star game that was hosted in Raleigh, NC!  My favorite line? Anybody who doesn't like "Carolina in My Mind" is my enemy and I choose pistols at dawn.

Can life get any better around here? Well, yes - on SATURDAY NIGHT when we all head to Everett, of course...

What HOCKEYTIME™ needs...

is a just a little more cowbell

Something HTPC really wants to learn how to do this year...

drive a zamboni

HOCKEYTIME™ Special Event: Thurs 3/10

Hockeyfans, it's time to prepare.
  
HOCKEYTIME™ 2011 is nigh upon us, and we've had nary a function geared towards your edification and training for what promises to be the best HOCKEYTIME™ EVER!! We have almost 60 attendees this year, a number that HTPC has only dreamed of until now - we are seriously poised to hit the big time! 

To celebrate, we will be heading to Capitol Hill  - there may be agents at this event, so bring your best game and hockey attire, and be ready to play.

What?     Vegan Airhockey (just like it says, we couldn't possibly make it up)
When?    Thurdsay 3/10  ~6pm (HTPC reps may go early & stake out the table)
Where?   Highline 210 Broadway E (just north of Olive/John)
Who?      21+ only, alas (Highline is a bar, no minors allowed)

Our favorite TV commercial ever

can be seen here

HOCKEYTIME™ Movie Picks

We are pleased to offer this annotated filmography, summarizing some of the amazingly informative and entertaining films the HOCKEYTIME™ Movie Night (HTMN) Curators have screened over the past few years (keep scrolling down for additional gems that come recommended by our ragtag crew of hockey film afficianados):

Mighty Ducks (tagline: They can't skate. They can't win. They can't be serious.) 
viewer reactions:   
"An adrenaline-drenched blast of quack-tacular fun!  Every moment is magic!"
"quack.  Quack.  QUack.  QUAck.  QUACk.  QUACK.  QUACKQUACKQUACKQUACKQUACK!!!!!"
"No, I'm NOT crying!  I just...have something in my eye...."

D2: Mighty Ducks (tagline: The Puck Stops Here)
viewer reactions:
"Listen to how they snore...Just like Chris E!"
"It's knucklepuck time!"
"Hey Goldberg! I bet if that puck was a cheeseburger you'd stop it!!"
"I don't want to spend the rest of my life watching hockey movies in this rinkydink town..."

Miracle  (tagline: What America needed was a miracle. What it got was a hockey game)
viewer reactions:
"So good that I wanted to watch the movie again.  [Whistle.]  And again.  [Whistle.]  And again.  [Whistle.]  And again...."
"I'm Mitch P, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and I play for the United States of America!"
"I had no idea that hockey players were such wholesome young men...."

HTPC says: Even though it's been 27 years since the US Olympic Hockey team delivered the Miracle that America was in such desperate need of, seeing Kurt Russell and the rest of the cast re-create every. single. minute. of the entire. seven. months. of training and preparation that led to the gold medal brought it back to us as if it were just yesterday...We were nearly all in tears.

Mystery, Alaska (tagline: A Small Town on the Outskirts of Greatness)
viewer reactions:



"I went in thinking I was just going to get Burt Reynolds, and got a surprise bonus of Burt Reynolds mindmelding with Sean Connery & Sherlock Holmes! OSCAR! OSCAR!!"
"An eloquent look at the effervescent language of a small town Saturday hockey-league club room."
"Educational?!  Bring the kids to this movie series and they'll be able to cuss like a fisherman, #$%! like a *&@@#, and share all sorts of new things with their classmates (phrases like 'what the puck?' and the real reason not to high stick a guy you like...) - I don't think this stuff will turn up on the WASL." 

Slapshot (tagline: SlapShot outslaps... outswears... outlaughs...) 
viewer reactions:
"&#($!*F&%#^&#!!"
"why, you oughta !@#*&%#!$#"
"Paul Newman is dreamy..."
"Emma - earmuffs!"

Sudden Death (tagline: They said Game 7 would be a war. They didn't know the 1/2 of it) 
viewer reactions: 
"All I know is if we don't get this global warming fixed, we're gonna feel the effects like a stick upside the head'll knock your front teeth out. These penguins are mad they're comin' after US! Beaks bared, spatulas and steak knives at the ready. 'Sudden Death' is the most eye-opening, dammedest movie I ever saw"
"Buy Sam a drink, and get his dog one too..."
"OH MY GOD, he shot grandma!"
"PLEASE tell me there's a Sudden Death 2!!!"

Tooth Fairy (tagline: you can't handle the Tooth)

HTPC can do no better than The Stranger Slog's review of this one - we have nothing to add (other than to confirm that it does have a hockey theme):

Quick and skinny: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson commits fantasy murder by trying to tell a little girl that there is no tooth fairy, so the magical courts make him do two weeks of tooth fairy duty. If you like tooth wordplay, then boy is this the movie for you. They don't even have to make sense. (“I pledge allegiance to the tooth”) And shouldn't Johnson be acting? Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson played Derek “Tooth Fairy” Thompson. Wow, dunno if I'll be able to suspend my belief for that one...

Youngblood (tagline: After selection for the Canadian Hamilton Mustangs, Dean Youngblood's future looks bright - even his landlady is hot.) 
viewer reactions:
"Thank God there is a sport for middle-sized white boys!"
"He's so pretty!"
"Heaver' was truly a breakout role for Keanu - this work clearly prepared him for inevitable stardom in such classics as Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Point Break". 

Additional gems:
Happy Gilmore (tagline: He doesn't play golf... he destroys it)
MVP (tagline: Jack skates a little faster... Shoots a little harder... And is driving everyone bananas.) 
The Rocket (tagline: the Gladiator of hockey movies)