Every year the Portland WInter Hawks do a game where fans throw teddy bears onto the ice after their first goal of that game by the team. The bears go to hospitals and shelters. This year the bears were thrown but the goal was ironically disallowed. Ha. It’s still an amusing gimmick.
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Neat idea, but what a break in the game… why not do it at the end of the game and not stop the action for 30 minutes?
Matthew
“The bears go to hospitals and shelters.”
Am I the only one who read that the wrong way?
It’s just not the same if it doesn’t make you wanna hurl like the squid-throwing at Redwings games
Fantastic gimmick. I am a sap for stuff like this….I love it. 🙂
As an after thought….were any of them named Mohammad?
This is a great idea and a wonderful way to bring a smile to a child’s face. Unfortunately the shelters and hospitals are full of children that are in need of a smile. Goal or no goal, a 30 minute break in the game is the most unimportant part of it. Thanks for posting this John.
#2 – “The bears go to hospitals and shelters.”
Am I the only one who read that the wrong way?
You can hardly be blamed as it was written is such a clumsy and hackish manner.
Oh… I see it was written by John Dvorak…
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/grovel off
The Calgary Hitmen in alberta, canada have been doing this for years. they get a lot more than 20000 bears thrown onto the ice. it holds up the game for a while, but everyone loves it. The funny parts are when someone throws a glass piggybank or they wait till the 3rd or 4th goals of the game. random bears just land on the ice all night.
Stephen Colbert’s hockey nightmare!
I mean, I’ve heard of it raining cats and dogs, but….
J/P=?
#8. Bwahahahahaha, You’re killin me here.
I can see it now…
An opposing team is about to SCORE, and Teddy bears RAIN down…Ice skates get Fouled by Bears, THUMP…NO SCORE..
#8 OFTLO – A world class backpedal if I ever saw one…
🙂
Steve-o
How, exactly, does that constitute irony?
The Calgary Hitmen host the same sort of event and I am going to the Teddy Bear Toss this Sunday. However, it is not all fun and games. Two years ago some joker bought his kid a life sized teddy bear and threw it from the second balcony. Unfortunately it didn’t make it to the ice and landed on my head.
It won’t be long until some bonehead does this and the guy who gets hit sues the team and kills the whole deal.