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Anxiety, Please Stay Away

I mentioned it briefly in one of the photo captions from my Wednesday post. Anxiety paid Ryan a rather unwelcome visit at Wednesday’s Devils home-opener. We normally don’t attend weekday night games because it means keeping our kids up too late. With Ryan in particular, his sleep cycle is like a delicate flower that needs […]

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Mostly Wordless Wednesday: Devils Game Night

Time is in short supply today, so I’m going to borrow a concept from my blog-friend Lisa of Between Hope and a Hard Place and go with a “mostly wordless Wednesday” post.

Last night was the Devils’ home opener, so we had to break our normal no-games-on-a-school-night rule to attend as a family. I must say, walking back into the Prudential Center for the first time since Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final felt a little like returning home.

For us, hockey games our where our family dynamic works the best, and it was great to be back.

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A Plea to NHL Teams

Happy NHL eve everyone! Yes, it’s true. Hockey is back. Or for you social media types, #hockeyisback. The NHL drops the puck on a new season Saturday at 3 p.m. ET — just a little over three months late due to a labor dispute. This has not been an easy time for Ryan. Thankfully he […]

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Hey Now, You’re an All-Star

Ryan is an all-star. OK. He’s not technically an all-star. It’s a “select” team. And we have a conflict and he’s not even going to be able to take part. But there is a select team from his house league being put together for a weekend tournament a couple of hours away, and he was […]

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Game On

The last several months have not been an easy time for people, like me, whose livelihood depends on the sport of professional hockey. The costs of the NHL lockout, which began Sept. 15 when the league and its players could not reach an agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement, have been both measurable (financial) […]

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