Sports

Sports on SinisterVibe, featuring games, events and experiences from Toronto and our travels, from baseball and hockey to the occasional sporting adventure.

Alexander Nylander has a game!

Alexander Nylander skates with the puck during a hockey game, wearing a white jersey with blue accents.

The Marlies’ comeback was started by Alexander Nylander’s assist on Nikita Grebenkin’s goal in the…

Hockey Hall of Fame

A vintage goalie mask with red and blue design, hanging next to a red jersey labeled "Dryden, Ken."

I’ve not been to the Hockey Hall of Fame in over 10 years. I’m so…

NHL All-Star Weekend 2024

Red signage and a large hockey puck display mark the NHL All-Star Weekend 2024 at an urban plaza with skyscrapers.

Toronto deserves this!  I don’t care what anyone says. Toronto is a hockey town first…

Little Leaf fans!

A group of six people, including children in Toronto Maple Leafs jerseys, pose together in a venue.

These two Leaf super fans! Their inspirational journey to save up enough money is to…

Timbit hockey

Child in hockey gear skating on ice, focused on controlling a puck with a stick during a Timbit hockey game

I started playing hockey when I was about five years old. In a backyard rink…

Sumo in Japan!

A ceramic sumo wrestler statue with a playful expression poses against a wooden background.

While in Tokyo, I decided I would take on a Sumo wrestler cause that’s how…

Lucha Libre!

Person wearing a blue wrestling mask with silver accents, smiling while wearing a black band T-shirt featuring skull designs.

Professional wrestling is known as lucha libre in Latin America, which translates to “free fighting.”

Maritime Hockey

Logo featuring a fierce black animal head with white and blue flames, embodying a dynamic and aggressive energy.

We were lucky to be in Saint John during the start of the Memorial Cup…

Size makes the goalie?

A hockey goalie in a vintage uniform stands by the net, holding his stick and preparing for play on the ice.

Those are some huge goalie skates Ken. As much as I admire Ken Dryden as…

Goalies are the best!

A detailed figurine of a hockey goalie in a blue jersey and brown pads, holding a stick on a white base.

There was not many better than Johnny Bower. Bower was the first goaltender to employ…

Goaltending legends

A man with scars on his forehead and chest holds a measurement stick, looking thoughtfully to the side.

When I was a young goalie there was no better than Vladislav Aleksandrovich Tretiak. However,…

We all wear masks

A person wears a white, eerie mask with large eye holes and a mouth opening, casting a shadow on the wall.

Somewhere in storage I have a goalie mask I made when I was about twelve.…