Players need clean ice. So Zamboni drivers do their job between periods. It’s an important relationship at ice hockey rinks around the world. Yet I had a feeling last Saturday night that there was a more important bond for the guy guiding one of the two big machines at the Onondaga County War Memorial, where…
Saturday night brought the second of two games in which our great friends JoAnn and Brenda had given us extra tickets they’d earned as season-ticket holders for the Syracuse Crunch. My dear wife Karen and I arrived to the Onondaga County War Memorial a bit late for the American Hockey League action against the hometown…
Leaving the Syracuse Crunch hockey game in downtown Syracuse last Friday night, a bright building stood out among the usual skyline as my dear wife Karen and I walked from the Onondaga County War Memorial to our car parked in our favorite little lot a block away. It loomed, in fact, I’d say. I grabbed…
Brenda and JoAnn offered tickets to Friday nights Syracuse Crunch game to my dear wife Karen and I, and we thought, Let the Season Begin. Our good friends handed me an envelope stuffed with six, coming to my bowling league play the night prior to the game to make sure I had them. So I…
I saw two drop-the-gloves fights by men on the ice but no pull-the-leash fights by dogs in the stands. Even though the Syracuse Crunch lost 2-0 to the Rochester Americans Saturday night in an American Hockey League game at the Onondaga County War Memorial, Dog Night was a smashing success. Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle…
We had fun watching them from high above in the Carrier Dome in November. We had more fun from behind the goal in the Onondaga County War Memorial in December. On this Wednesday in January, I write about the successes of Syracuse Crunch for my weekly community blog for Syracuse Public Media site waer.com. You…
Last week I brought you the hockey report from our visit to the Onondaga County War Memorial to see the Syracuse Crunch of the AHL. My dear wife Karen went back Friday night, just six days later, so I decided to make the historic, 61-year-old building in downtown Syracuse the star of the work on…
When last I left you with photos and my impressions of the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League, they’d skated to a 2-1 victory over the Utica Comets in a one-time event called the Frozen Dome Classic. Almost 31,000 fans had crammed into the Carrier Dome for the Saturday night in November, and oh,…
I’ve got season tickets to Syracuse University football in the Carrier Dome, and it was not a good season. One win, in double-overtime in the season opener against Football Championship Series Subdivision foe Villanova, and then five straight bone-numbing losses to rob fans of any sense of spirit. Maryland (OK, the win for my alma…
Once in a while you take notice of a person, pinpoint their profession, and feel the need to declare, “Of course!” I am convinced there are those among us who are destined to become what we become from the moment we are born to certain parents. Genes? Well, sure, but that is not my point…
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