Chill out: It’s the preliminary round.
Six-Word Recap: Complex chronicles a notable sporting event from the previous day in six words.
Yup, the U.S. beat Canada 5-3 in Vancouver—great win—but let’s hold off on that “Miracle on Ice” stuff until the medal round, yeah? Click here to read our High Five with last night’s hero Ryan Miller, and then add your own Six-Word Recap below…
It’s Olympic hockey time! The U.S.A. opens the preliminary round in Vancouver today with a 3 p.m. (EST) match against Switzerland. Russia, Canada, and Sweden are the clear medal favorites, so if the U.S. is gonna make it to the podium for the first time since ‘92, starting goalie Ryan Miller will need to get hot. Quickly. “It’s just a short two-week tournament, and the room for error after the first few games changes significantly,” says the Buffalo Sabres netminder. “So, I’m going to have fun with the Olympic experience, but also dial it in and have a good tournament.” Incidentally, our connection with the 29-year-old Michigan native goes beyond the fact that we’re hockey fans—Miller’s currently dating Noureen DeWulf, a former Hot Complex. (Eat your heart out, Avery!)
Our High Five columns usually feature “best of”s, but for this edition, we had Miller name the most unrealistic hockey movies of all time. Everybody loves Slap Shot and Youngblood, so these are the hockey-inspired movies that make Miller say, “Puck outta here!” Read on for his list…
How many Christmas gifts do you get every year that get tossed into a closet or just flat out returned? All of them? Well, step up, and cut down on this occurrence by straight up asking for stuff! Don’t know what you want? That’s why we’re here.
Gifts are great when they go together, and asking for entry-level sports setups are a sure thing (with little mess up potential). This Christmas (or Hanukkah – 2 more nights!) tell your fam you want to learn a new sport. Send them the link to this post and help them help you get into golf, hockey, snowboarding, and sledding. You’ve always wanted to try but never had the gear, right? Go in!
He’ll get you that shit that Gretzky skate on…
Compared to basketball, football, and baseball (and golf…and soccer…and NASCAR), ice hockey doesn’t get that much love in rap lyrics—you know: it’s cold, there’s crazy white people with masks and sticks, etc. etc. (word to Nat X). That’s why it always catches our attention when an MC drops a hockey reference in a verse. Most recently, it was the homie Mibbs from Pac Div (on “Knuckleheadz” from the group’s new Complex-co-signed mixtape) who got icey with it: “It get colder than a polar, or Ovechkin with the puck.”
The Ovie reference got us thinking about our favorite hip-hop hockey moments of the past. (Ed. note: Sorry Kardi, Saukrates, Maestro Fresh Wes, et. al.—we excluded all Canadian rappers. Y’all supposed to be talking about hockey!) So then, get your puck on and enjoy rap’s greatest lyrical nods to hockey. Skate, skate, skate, skate!
We were pretty sure professional hockey got cancelled a few years ago, but one never can tell with all the Internet hoaxes out there these days. Freshjive keeps the dream alive this summer with their Hockey Team T-Shirt, a reasonably priced (and nostalgic!) look at classic NHL jerseys. You like it? Guess what? It comes in gray as well! Go nuts and read on below for Buy It Now info and detailed pics…
