For a sport as brutal as professional ice hockey, you might expect it to have its share of characters. But as it turns out the NHL also has a storied history of exceptional stiff upper lips. Who are we not to appreciate a good mustache list when we see it?

When you think the face of golf, who comes to mind? Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson? There’s someone else out there on the greens though, just looking to make a statement. A fashion statement.

With the Padres in last place, hockey can’t come soon enough.  Only a month away, this new video feature from NHL09 has definitely got us feeling the rush.

Girl Skateboards art director Andy Jenkins and team rider Eric Koston talk about their contribution to Project Red.  Watch the beautifully packaged video here.

Creative shop 72andSunny snatched Guy Ritchie to direct one hell of a soccer promo for Nike.  I must have watched this three times in a row and now I’m itching to get on the field.

I was four when my parents first put me on ice.  I crashed into the boards and made one of the hockey moms spill her hot chocolate.  This was something I could get into. A few years later I witnessed my first professional game.   It was an original six matchup at Madison Square Garden.  Hash marks, grinders, wrap arounds, one timers and off to the sin bin. Man was I hooked.  Even now, the smell of the ice still fires me up. See, if a man has one true sport, ya know the one that distracts you when your girlfriend is talking to you, well then hockey is mine.  Don’t get me wrong, I love my girlfriend but I also love a good cross-check, saucer pass and coast to coast for the natural hat-trick.  And right now, the playoffs beards are in full effect.  I’m pullin’ for the Caps.  Alex Ovechkin might very well be to hockey what Sopranos is to HBO.  

Knock out your two front teeth, grow a mullet and learn how to talk like a hockey player here.