This article originally appeared on Wired.com. Read More As a recently retired jock who spent 17 seasons in the National Hockey League, I was asked by Comcast SportsNet California to be an analyst covering the San Jose Sharks. At first I wasn’t interested, since I was more accustomed to throwing elbows over a choppy puck, not [...]
This article was originally published in Vanity Fair. The United States hockey team could not have planned this any better. I originally thought it was a definite tough situation for Team U.S.A. to find itself in the same preliminary pool as gold medal favorite Team Canada, but with all the surprises in this competition, I’ve [...]
This article was originally published in Vanity Fair. Retired N.H.L. player Bret Hedican, who is married to Olympic figure-skater Kristi Yamaguchi, suited up for Team U.S.A. during the 1992 and 2006 Olympics. Here he reflects on the Olympic hockey scene then and now. Growing up in North St. Paul, a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, [...]