A New Blog On The Block

The "offside" rule is intended to make for a more interesting game by making very long offensive passes illegal.

My hope for this blog, Nucks Offside, is to report news, make observations, pass comments, shoot out theories and ideas, explain stuff along the way, call journalists and bloggers out for egregious statements of opinion disguised as informed commentary, and to entertain as I do so.  I'll be concentrating on my favourite team the Vancouver Canucks though I'll sometimes pay attention to the state of hockey across the board including other teams and other leagues.

I follow the NHL. I also follow the AIHL and the NZIHL and quite enjoy the fact that I can watch hockey from down under in the off-season and enjoy it very much.  It is a pleasure to see the growth of hockey in Australia and New Zealand.  I also follow Junior hockey, particularly the Halifax Mooseheads of the QMJHL, the Kootenay Ice of the WHL and Junior B hockey in British Columbia including the KIJHL, the PJHL and the VIJHL.

During the season I am Social Media Co-ordinator for the Golden Rockets of the KIJHL managing the Team account and the game account .  I live tweet home games and tweet (with a lot of help from fans, parents and other teams' twitter accounts) the away games, though my hope is to get to some of these games myself.  During the 2013 Playoffs I managed to get landed in Twitter Jail twice (just as the games ended) but I was told that that those following on Twitter felt the excitement and like they were there at the games.  I do summary write-ups of the away games (we have our colour commentator write up the home games), occasional blog pieces as well news updates on the teams webpage and I update the Golden community via our Facebook page. 

Hockey has long been a passion for me but it has only been in the past year that I have moved to writing about it.  There are so many "experts" out there, so many who I felt were far more qualified than myself to make comment but as the old saying goes, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained."  My sincere hope is that you will find my musings and thoughts worth checking out from time to time.

Go Canucks!