Hurricane Irene Hockey?

As Hurricane Irene decided to grace the East Coast with her presence, many people in her path heeded advice from law officials and stayed indoors. Of course there's always a bunch of dare-devils and least shockingly they were stuck in Manhattan. So while Hurricane Irene was barreling her way up the East Coast, these guys in Times Square took advantage of a relatively dead Time Square and played some street hockey. Even less shocking: finding out some of them were Canadians. Truly nothing stops them from their hockey, not even a threat of a Hurricane. Good to see they got their game in last night because this morning the winds were so bad, that puck could have hurt a person.

Another Canadian hockey player has been dominating the headlines the past week and it hasn't been in the best way. Everyone has something to say on Sidney Crosby not talking about his injury and he finally felt like breaking his silence. No clue what he owes the media that is trying to rip him to shreds, while some are even suggesting retirement for him. It was officially reported that over 90% exertion in his off-season workouts he is suffering from headaches from his concussion almost 9 months later. I'm sure the average Joe off the street probably couldn't handle 10% of his workout so I think we just wait and see what happens. Training camp opens in a few weeks and then everyone will have a better idea. Till then....

(Btw- in case you want to get an idea of what any player considers an off season workout, the Penguins have been posting videos of various players. Kris Letang does some crazy hurdles and bar work (moonlighting as a gymnast maybe?) and Evgeni Malkin's lightened workout in Russia while recovering from his knee surgery is intense enough to be a regular workout. Lets also not forget these guys average 2 a days for 6 of the 7 weekdays. I was tired just watching some of it.)