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Pucked in the Head
@puckedinthehead.bsky.social
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Hockey, science, Star Trek, books, 🇨🇦. I’m an 8-track of hilarity.

Probably wearing Fluevogs as you read this.
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A treat to be in the building to witness Sarah Nurse scoring the first-ever goal for the Vancouver Goldeneyes franchise.

@pwhlgoldeneyes.bsky.social
A wide angle shot of the inside of the Pacific Coliseum, with nearly 15,000 fans cheering after a Goldeneyes goal.
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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I’ve got my Sarah Nurse jersey ready for tonight’s inaugural puck drop for the Vancouver Goldeneyes… how about you?

@thepwhl.com @pwhlgoldeneyes.bsky.social
A devastatingly handsome man smiles and wears a Toronto Sceptres jersey with a Vancouver Goldeneyes logo safety-pinned over the front crest. He has forgotten to reverse the image, so numbers and letters are rassenfrassen backwards. A devastatingly handsome man pulls a cheesy muscle pose and wears a Toronto Sceptres jersey with a Vancouver Goldeneyes logo safety-pinned over the front crest. He has forgotten to reverse the image, so numbers and letters are rassenfrassen backwards. A devastatingly handsome man has his back to the camera—he is pointing to the name and number on the shirt, #20 Sarah Nurse of the Vancouver Goldeneyes. A #20 Toronto Sceptres jersey hangs on an office chair with a Vancouver Goldeneyes logo safety-pinned over the front crest.
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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The #Canucks supporting the crosstown @pwhlgoldeneyes.bsky.social as they come in for tonight's game against the Stars.

I've never been a fan of wordmark-only logos; I look forward to the Goldeneyes crests that are forthcoming.

@nhlcanucks.bsky.social @nhlcanucks.com
Vancouver Canucks forward Jake DeBrusk walks into Rogers Arena wearing a PWHL Vancouver Goldeneyes jersey, blue with white and orange trim and a diagonal VANCOUVER wordmark across the front of the shirt. Vancouver Canucks forward Kiefer Sherwood walks into Rogers Arena wearing a PWHL Vancouver Goldeneyes jersey, blue with white and orange trim and a diagonal VANCOUVER wordmark across the front of the shirt. A Vancouver Canucks player whom I don't recognize walks into Rogers Arena wearing a PWHL Vancouver Goldeneyes jersey, blue with white and orange trim and a diagonal VANCOUVER wordmark across the front of the shirt. Vancouver Canucks forward Aatu Räty walks into Rogers Arena wearing a PWHL Vancouver Goldeneyes jersey, blue with white and orange trim and a diagonal VANCOUVER wordmark across the front of the shirt.
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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I'm not sure what's less inspiring: the Rangers jerseys for the Winter Classic, or JT Miller starting at the camera with that vacant, are-we-done-here stare.

#NYR #Panthers @nhlflapanthers.bsky.social Not surprisingly, the Blueshirts have the laziest social media in the league.
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Just finished season 2 in my Stranger Things rewatch. Something tells me I won't get through all of 3 & 4 by the time the new season premieres in 8 days' time.

#StrangerThings
#StrangerThingsRewatch
A collage of pictures from the television series Stranger Things.
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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If @canucksarmy.bsky.social has taught me anything it's how to market #Canucks articles with an all-world thirst trap.
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Book #85 for 2025: Illuminations by Mary Sharratt, a fictionalized autobiography of Hildegard von Bingen, who overcame an impossibly difficult upbringing to become a 12th century composer, activist, and perhaps even a prophet.

🖋️📚 💙
#LitFic
#LiteraryFiction
#ReadMoreBooks
#ReadDammit
October 30, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Book #70 of 2025: All the Colour in the World by CS Richardson. Vignettes of an art historian who is promoted to enlist for duty in World War II when his wife is tragically killed in a car accident.

And a whisky sour.

🖋️📚 💙
#LitFic
#LiteraryFiction
#ReadMoreBooks
#ReadDammit
#BookSky
A copy of All the Colour in the World, by CS Richardson, sits on a marble counter top beside a whiskey sour.
October 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Now let’s see this glorious #Canucks uni against the Avs in their #Nordiques kit.
October 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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PWHL jerseys, best to worst:

1. Montreal - colours, logo: perfect
2. Minnesota - love the purple
3. Boston - stripes & shoulders
4. Ottawa - red pops but that zero logo?
5. Toronto - the Taylor Swifts, really?
6. New York - all the possibilities for ‘sirens’ but you give us this?
7/8. YVR/SEA - boo
The eight PWHL jerseys hanging in a locker room. (L-R: Toronto Sceptres, Ottawa Charge, New York Sirens, Vancouver Hockey Team, Seattle Hockey Team, Minnesota Frost, Boston Fleet, Montréal Victoire)
October 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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You know I love ya, @thepwhl.com, but our expansion teams have to play in logoless word mark shirts for the first year?

PLUS the Vancouver team is decked out in old style New York Rangers colours?

Boo. I think I’ll get me a @victoire-lphf.bsky.social Poulin jersey instead. Those are gorgeous.
October 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Pettersson takes an ugly hit and goes headfirst into the boards. Weegar gets two minutes. Here’s hoping EP40 doesn’t wind up missing more than an observation shift after the play. #Canucks nation holds their breath in game 1.
October 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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It's opening day, children.

#Canucks
#HockeyDammit
October 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Classic 50s fiction. Legendary Monterrey tacos. Pretty good way to start the day if you ask me.
September 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Grew up watching him on the ice, and The Game remains among my favourite hockey books. Seeing his stall at the HHOF was a highlight in Toronto.

RIP Ken Dryden.
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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This is why Margaret Atwood is still relevant after all these years.

#NeverVoteConservative
September 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Aha! The old Dustin Byfuglien trick!
July 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Oh then you’ll love this old shot of Joe Carter, who legit once played six innings for the Torotno Blue Jays.

[sic]
July 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Book #49 of 2025, #LiteraryFiction. What happens if Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale and Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi have a baby manuscript out of wedlock? The Water Cure by British novelist Sophie Mackintosh, that’s what.
#ReadDammit #ReadMoreBooks
#BookSky
A paperback copy of The Water Cure, a novel by Sophie Mackintosh, sits in a tree on a summer day.
July 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Book #47 for 2025: Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots.

What if goodies were villainous, baddies heroic, and a spreadsheet nerd the superest of them all? If you wonder, “who’ll pay for the property damage?!?!” this is the book for you.

#CanadaReads #CanCon #ReadMoreBooks #ReadDammit #SupportLibraries
Hench, a novel by Natalie Zina Walschots. A deep red cover with a single bright red silhouette in the centre; the author’s name is in 20-point yellow type above a massive 200-point turquoise title word: HENCH. The midsection of a man carrying a hardcover copy of Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots; he is wearing a bold burgundy shirt, and holding a book despite wearing a sling on his arm and a brace on his thumb.
July 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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A few recent reads.

#ReadDammit
#ReadMoreBooks
#BookSky
Ocean Drive and Sunset & Jericho, two crime novels by Vancouver-based author Sam Wiebe. Natural Born Heroes, Christopher McDougall’s non-fiction book about the Brits & Greeks who for months staved off Hitler’s attempt to take over the historically significant sliver of a Greek island known as Crete. Blacksad, a wonderful Spanish-French detective noir graphic novel. A History of Forgetting, a poignant novel of dementia, homophobia, loneliness, and both historical and personal remembrance, by Caroline Anderson.
July 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Way to go Artūrs Šilovs! The pride of Latvia shines for the #Canucks and takes AHL Playoff MVP honours.

@abbycanucks.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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…in which @chrisosaur.bsky.social calls me a piteous wretch and admits he’s a beast.
A skeet from Chris Withers naming me in response to Georgia lux’s post, “we’ve all got that one homie who is a piteous wretch scorned by man and beast alike”
June 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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I was lucky enough to shoot WHL photos when Leon was with the Kelowna Rockets — got these excellent pics of the Draisaitl one-timer. Sadly for the Vancouver Giants, he scored on this particular power play.
June 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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This very succinctly sums up today's progress on my novel.

Credit: Nathan W Pyle
#WriteDammit
#WeAreAllWriters
#MinimalProgress
Frame 1 - One being leans into the first frame: "Why are you in distress" The second being is staring at their computer with sad eyes. A hot cup of coffee sits beside them: "I am creating a fictional narrative." Frame 2 - Being 1: "How is it progressing?" Being 2: "Minimally." They cradle the cup of coffee. Frame 3 - Being 2: "But I reviewed my progress and I despise it." They pick up their coffee. Being 1: "Oh." Frame 4 - Being 1: "Is this substandard or routine" Being 2: "Yes." They take a sip. Their eyes look slightly less sad.
June 13, 2025 at 4:42 AM