« « ESPN Week 13 Halfway done » »

Hockey knight in Asia

January 8, 2006

Like a wandering knight-errant of old, former Edmonton Oiler and 10-year NHL veteran Shjon Podein is roaming far from home in search of not-so-chivalrous adventure.

Based in the picturesque Japanese city of Nikko, he sallies forth on weekly crusades to test his mettle against Vikings, Dragons and Lions - not to mention the usual challenges of a new culture and new language.

Welcome to the Asia Hockey League .... [.continue.]

Former Flyer Shjon Podein talks about playing in the Asian Hockey League.
I wasn’t aware that there was an Asian Hockey League. In recent years there has been several Asian basketball and baseball players make it to the NBA and MLB. I wonder how long before some good hockey players start coming from that region of the world.




    BallHype: hype it up!

Written by Mike · Filed Under Former Flyers, Philadelphia Flyers 
Tagged:

Comments

Got something to say?

You must be logged in to post a comment.


Fatal error: Can't load file.php, open_basedir restriction. in /home/mike/public_html/wp-content/plugins/autoblogged/Log.php on line 163