Tampa Bay Lightning: The World Watches a Sun-Drenched Hockey Dynasty and Pretends to Care By “Global” Gerry Van der Zalm, filing from the last functioning airport bar with Wi-Fi The Tampa Bay Lightning have now won so many Stanley Cups that the trophy’s handlers keep a spare crate of sunscreen in the cargo hold—an oddly…
The Curious Case of Eddie Giacomin, or How a Bronx Goalie Accidentally Became a Global Rorschach Test By the time the Iron Curtain finally admitted it was made of polyester, Eddie Giacomin had already slipped through it—on grainy VHS tapes smuggled in diplomatic pouches, on cigarette-smudged hockey cards swapped in Budapest schoolyards, and in the…
Carey Price and the Unbearable Lightness of Being a National Saint By Dave’s Locker International Desk, somewhere between a Tim Hortons and a UN peacekeeping outpost MONTREAL—If you want to watch a country negotiate with its own mythology, just mention Carey Price’s name in any bar from Chicoutimi to Chilliwack. The man has become a…
