Mike Maloni

An open letter to all sport fans...

An open letter to all sport fans…

An open letter to all sport fans, On the Fourth of July, this year, 2011, pick your favorite sports hero and then enjoy! Tell your kids about him/her, tell your friends! It’s a gracious holiday in America, people have barbecues and enjoy friends and family! Invariably, there will be a game on and half the [...]

Why I will miss football if the mess isn't cleaned up!

Why I will miss football if the mess isn’t cleaned up!

Football is like baseball, I can watch almost any game and enjoy it. Watching someone beyond the Celtics or Bruins is semi-sacriligious in their sport! Yet, the Patriots have been such a credit to the league that the interest in who we were playing next week or just the general non-ambivalence to the game of football so he could concentrate[...]

Mike Maloni: Would you trade it all in to be a coach?

Mike Maloni: Would you trade it all in to be a coach?

Could you see yourself walking away from a nice living and saying, “Honey, I want to have a chance to mold young men’s lives.”

Nowadays, hockey shapes women’s lives! The past year in Calagry with the Canadians sweeping the Gold over the US Teams was a hard pill to swallow for 1980 Olympic hero Mark Johnson [...]

Stanley Cup Recap By Mike Maloni

Stanley Cup Recap By Mike Maloni

Rodgers arena in Vancouver hosted the visiting Boston Bruins and put the Vancouver Canucks in their own building for what had become the last game of the year!

The Bruins had an extra motivation because of two players, injured Nathan Horton, and 43, year-old Mark Recchi, playing in the real last [...]

Boston: Game 6 Stanley Cup Finals! Contributor: Mike Maloni

Boston: Game 6 Stanley Cup Finals! Contributor: Mike Maloni

Brad Marchand and Ryan Kessler took the opening draw and shortly afterwards Johnny Boychuck smacked Masom Raymond into the boards and Raymond, had to be helped off the ice! The game begins early with penalties to the two capatins Henrik Sedin of Vancouver for embellishment and Zdeno Chara of Boston for interference. [...]

Hockey for all the Marbles...

Hockey for all the Marbles…

Boston — When Maxime Lapierre, of the Vancouver Canucks, scored a bad angle goal, to give his team a 1-0 win in game five and a 3-2 lead in the Stanley Cup Finals,
Vancouver rejoiced, and Boston dug in! How many goals does it take to win a game? One more than the opposition! The high flying Canucks had been putting on an offensive show[...]

East Longmeadow, Ma: SportsJabber, Mike Maloni

East Longmeadow, Ma: SportsJabber, Mike Maloni “Baseball and such…”

Last night it was hockey and today I would like to bring a small column to you about my affection for the game of baseball. Recently, SportsJabber asked who was your favorite football players and I went local! All Patriots, yet as beautiful and historic as Fenway Park was and is, there is a majesty to bawseball that thanks to Jackie Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Joe D., “Pudge” Fisk, and [...]

Game 5: Boston vs. Vancouver, Stanley Cup Playoffs

Game 5: Boston vs. Vancouver, Stanley Cup Playoffs

Vancouver — Despite choppy ice and racing pulses, the first period began with speed and skating only seen in the National Hockey League.
Canuck goalie Roberto Luongo has been playing with a spectre in the last two games as his counterpart Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas has been praised. Luongo gave away [...]

Boston: The Bruins vs. Canucks, game 4

Boston: The Bruins vs. Canucks, game 4

Rich Peverly began the scoring in the first period for the Boston Bruins and Tim Thomas
had plenty of help shutting down “The Big Three” of Vaqncouver, the Sedin brothers and
Ryan Kessler. A game with sloppy ice after a hot day in Boston. The Bruins carried the
play all night! Thomas had some other teammates involved in keeping the shutout further [...]