Word: nhl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NHL playoffs? Click. Public access? Click. "The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross"? Alright...
...TELEVISION Third Round Italian Open, GOLF, 3 p.m. Astros at Mets, FSNE, 7 p.m. NHL Playoffs, ESPN, 7:30 p.m. Cardinals at Braves...
...TELEVISION Red Sox at Athletics, NESN, 3 p.m. NHL Playoffs (TBA), ESPN, 7 p.m. Astros at Mets, FSNE, 7 p.m. WCW Monday Nitro Live!, TNT, 8 p.m. Celtics at Knicks...
...have proved myself ungifted in every athletic endeavor, and yet there's a part of me that watches pro sports and thinks, "I could have caught that." It was during one of those moments that I asked the people at the NHL to suit me up in goalie pads and let a player take slap shots on me. The strangest part was not that they said yes but that they required me to sign absolutely no legal waivers. This is a tough sport...
...NHL sent me to the practice facility of the New York Islanders, because while most teams were gearing up for the playoff season, which starts this week, the Islanders were gearing down for golf season. Their goalie, Felix Potvin, helped me put on four boxes' worth of equipment, which weighed 30 lbs. He then had Warren Luhning, a rookie forward, take shots on me. What I didn't realize was that Luhning had not yet scored an NHL goal and had a lot of pent-up aggression. This became obvious when he skated around the net with his arms...