Top 10 Goals of the 2012-13 NHL Season by Paul Gozzo preparing for Sochi

Paul Gozzo shares this highlight reel of #nhl #goals from 2012-13 in preparation for the Sochi games.

7 games in 12 days....let's go U.S.A.



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Tomas Hertl Amazing Between the Legs Goal his 4th of the Game (10/8/13)

Crazy Youth Hockey Brawl in Russia brought to you by Paul Gozzo

This video isn't for everyone, but hockey players, especially those that have played at a high level, will understand how these kids exemplify courage, camaraderie, and how to stick up for each other even in the face of fear.

Some parents may cry about this. I particularly enjoyed the woman in the crowd clapping as this brawl continues.

Watch this video, then tell me what you think?

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NHL Stanley Cup Playoff Beard in January!

Check out Brent Burns' new mug shot. it's not so much the picture, but how the media is running with it that cracks me up.

It's still funny to me that playoff beards, post game handshakes, and Canadians are the gist of what many still believe hockey is all about.

Here's to the new (shortened) NHL season.

Paul Gozzo

Three new Hockey Movies: The Last Gladiators, Goon, and Breakaway

I'm looking forward to seeing these three new hockey movies, "The Last Galdiators", "Goon", and "Breakaway". All have either Academy Award winning directors or decent star power, most notably: Alex Gibney, Seann William Scott, Rob Lowe, Liv Schreiber (who did the voice over for HBO's 24/7 last year), Ludacris (ya that one), Sabres Goalie and US Olympian Ryan Miller, and a bunch of others you might recognize.

I'm guessing the Gibney documentary about Chris Nilan from his Montreal Canadians days will be the best of the bunch.

Here is an article about the three hockey movies stealing the show at the recent Toronto Film Festival.

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Winnipeg Jets new jerseys

I can't help it....I am routing for the Winnipeg Jets this year. I am also routing for every city, like Hartford, who lost a team to southern expansion, that they get their teams back! Going to Whaler games was a big part of my childhood and I am hopeful for many other kids who are growing up playing this great sport of hockey without a local professional team to rout for.

Paul Gozzo

The Autumn Rut

The Autumn is my favorite time of year. The weather change, the beauty of nature, baseball playoffs, football Sundays and Monday nights, cold weather meals, burning leave piles, hockey is just around the corner....and The Rut!

For those of you who don't know what The Rut is let's start with Wikipedia's definition since everything posted on the Internet is true: "The Rut for white-tailed deer usually lasts from 1-3 months in the Northern Hemisphere and may occur most of the year in tropical zones. The rut is the time when white-tailed deer, especially bucks, are more active and less cautious than usual."

And that last part, my friends, is what it is all about. Catching that big boy out looking for a lady, when he is thinking with the wrong head! Sometimes a hunter will scout an area for many hours only to be surprised at what he sees when the season finally opens up and the rut is in full effect.

Words cannot fully express the excitement and I cannot accurately describe the feeling. Perhaps the best way to describe the general notion of hunting the rut is to go back to the beginning of this blog and to take some of the different feelings from each one of those early fall activities and add them all up and that result is the closest I can come up with to describe the rut.

Happy fall all!

Paul Gozzo

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Boston Bruins

Congratulations Boston Bruins!

I want to share with you all just how excited I am for many of the kids that I played hockey with and against over the years who are die-hard Bruins fans.

This year The Stanley Cup Playoffs were intense as per usual. The first round was the most exciting round I can remember in the 30 years I have been watching every game of every round. (Well, those I was allowed to watch including those I wasn't. Sorry Ma, I snuck down to the basement to watch a few games when you thought I was asleep). Each successive round had even more excitement and the final series was flat out beautiful to watch.

I know many of you New Englanders felt excitement and relief when the Red Sox won in '04, especially after that incredible comeback against the Yankees, and that Series was a special moment for you. But I have to believe, for all the hours you logged in rinks over the years and all the dedication to the sport of hockey, with all that knowledge and passion you have built up, this Stanley cup win trumps any other in your Boston sports watching career.

Congratulations to all of you Bruins fans!

Paul Gozzo

NHL Hockey, Steve Moore, Justice, Todd Bertuzzi trial

A few nights ago marked the 7th anniversary of Steve Moore's last night of professional hockey.

Still no official trial date is set for the civil suit and there is still no judge yet assigned to the case. But there is a belief circulating that a trial is near, and justice on its way for Steve Moore, the Harvard graduate who had his professional hockey career cut short after a viscous assault by an opponant, Todd Bertuzzi.

Moore's case is rumored to be the single largest civil suit involving a professional athlete in the Canadian legal history, and with each passing year, the price goes up.

This will likely go on for years and years as Moore, with a laundry list of lawyers, is suing Bertuzzi and Orca Bay Ltd., the former owner of the Vancouver Canucks.

Geoffrey Adair will represent Bertuzzi who has blamed his coach at the time of the incident, Marc Crawford, who is now the head coach in Dallas. Crawford is represented by Jessica Kimmel. Orca Bay is represented by Allan D'Silva.

Counter suits have already been filed. The lawyers are doing their thing.

In one of the depositions, Bertuzzi apparently refused to answer 63 different questions!

Although Moore continues to go through tests year-in and year-out, it is hard to substantiate how much the assault and injuries have affected him and his life. Two things are for certain, he played his last professional game that night, seven years ago, and 7 or 8 different video cameras caught the assault at different angles.

This story will surely capture the NHL headlines as well as that of the sports world in general this year and beyond as a trial and settlement are ultimately reached. With an all-star team of lawyers, Steve Moore's team is playing for a big pay day and the rumors are that the amount Moore's camp is looking for is gigantic.

Stay tuned...


Paul Gozzo