n. A woman with hockey-playing children, particularly one who spends a lot of time driving her children to the rink and watching their games and practices.
2008
Cowpoke singer-songwriter Corb Lund calls fellow Albertan Tim Hus "one of my favorite Canadian songwriters."
He's the closest thing to a young Stompin' Tom Connors you can get without committing identity theft.
Bush Pilot Buckaroo is Hus' fourth album featuring his patented style of hard edged, frontier country rock. Whether singing about cowboys in pickups, bush pilots, hockey moms, miners or roadhouse bands, Hus' musical portraits of blue-collar Canadians ring true.
He's the closest thing to a young Stompin' Tom Connors you can get without committing identity theft.
Bush Pilot Buckaroo is Hus' fourth album featuring his patented style of hard edged, frontier country rock. Whether singing about cowboys in pickups, bush pilots, hockey moms, miners or roadhouse bands, Hus' musical portraits of blue-collar Canadians ring true.
2008
Two years into their marriage, Art Major's wife gave him an ultimatum: Your stinky hockey gear goes, she told him, or I go. …
When he couldn't find a Washington-area company to clean his hockey equipment, Art spent $80,000 of household savings on an industrial washing machine and started GearClean Inc.
The firm quickly branched out into cleaning firefighting gear, horse blankets, gooey pizza delivery bags and anything else that needs disinfecting or serious sanitizing but won't fit into a regular washing machine. Even so, Art says, his core clients remain "hockey moms tired of driving their minivans around with smelly hockey gear in the back."
When he couldn't find a Washington-area company to clean his hockey equipment, Art spent $80,000 of household savings on an industrial washing machine and started GearClean Inc.
The firm quickly branched out into cleaning firefighting gear, horse blankets, gooey pizza delivery bags and anything else that needs disinfecting or serious sanitizing but won't fit into a regular washing machine. Even so, Art says, his core clients remain "hockey moms tired of driving their minivans around with smelly hockey gear in the back."
1985 (earliest)
The first time out here they couldn't even walk," Moore said, watching the action from the sidelines where a dozen or so parents stood bundled up watching their kids in the chill. "The sixth or seventh time they're moving around pretty good."
The falling down can get frustrating for some youngsters.
"We stress to moms: Don't take them off the ice," said Darlene Mize, president of the Hockey Moms. "We tell them: 'Try. Give it your best shot.' That's the name of the game.
The falling down can get frustrating for some youngsters.
"We stress to moms: Don't take them off the ice," said Darlene Mize, president of the Hockey Moms. "We tell them: 'Try. Give it your best shot.' That's the name of the game.
Weekends from September to March, Jeannie Glennon of Laurel lives, breathes, thinks, eats and sleeps ice hockey. She spends hours driving from one game to another. She is a hockey fan's hockey fan. She cheers. She grieves. Never, if she can help it, does she miss a game. She has been doing this almost 10 years. Once she went to four hockey games in three states and the District of Columbia the same day.
Glennon is a hockey mother.
Glennon is a hockey mother.