{"id":7501,"date":"2004-01-24T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-25T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/24\/7501\/"},"modified":"2012-11-27T10:03:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:03:19","slug":"7501","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/24\/7501\/","title":{"rendered":"Update Your Hockey Lexicons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heather and I went to see the St. Louis Blues lose to the Dallas Stars this evening, and during the course of the evening I came up with some terms that I think should make their way into common hockey parlance.  So please update your hockey lexicons to include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s like <b><i>football with polearms<\/i><\/b>.  Heather got four choice tickets from her employer, so we brought along a co-worker from Espa&#241;a.  I like to boil things down succinctly to apt metaphors which don&#8217;t require too much scrutiny.  No, stop, don&#8217;t closely compare hockey to soccer wherein the players carry halberds and attempt to decapitate each other.  The National Hockey League is trying to get away from that image.\n<li>You know, every time someone shoots the puck between the goaltender&#8217;s legs, it&#8217;s <i>going five-hole<\/i>, or sometimes when a commentator has a flash of cross-sport brilliance, the puck goes <i>through the wickets<\/i>.  I prefer <i>the puppy&#8217;s gone home <b>through the doggie door<\/b>.<\/i>  How does that work for you?\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sports commentators, you don&#8217;t need to pay licensing fees for these terms.  However, a mention of my name, <b>Brian J. Noggle<\/b>, would be nice, or a gift from my inexpensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/registry\/1JS357PCC89PI\/ref%3Dwl%5Fs%5F3\/002-2230751-7132042\" target=\"new\">Amazon wish list<\/a> perhaps.  Thank you, that is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather and I went to see the St. Louis Blues lose to the Dallas Stars this evening, and during the course of the evening I came up with some terms that I think should make their way into common hockey parlance. So please update your hockey lexicons to include the following: It&#8217;s like football with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12197,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions\/12197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}