Beyond the Rhetoric

As you may have heard, the Vancouver Canucks won last night. That brings them to the Western Conference finals for the first time since the storied 1994 Stanley Cup playoff run and this city is positively electric as a result. This got me thinking, though, about something from a marketing and branding perspective. A trend [...]

Last night was a great night for Vancouver Canucks fans. Our hometown hockey team had already clinched the Northwest Division, as well as the Western Conference, but it was with last night’s win over the Los Angeles Kings that the Canucks clinched the Presidents’ Trophy. That’s the award given by the NHL to the team [...]

Part of the reason why I oftentimes have trouble falling asleep at night is that I have a difficult time “shutting off” my brain. Even when it comes time to relax, my mind is still running at a mile a minute, jumping from one topic to the next. A couple of random musings that I [...]

It’s something that I hear all the time from people who aren’t exactly fans. I get told all the time, “Why are you so into hockey? You don’t even play. You get all emotional over the Canucks, and you’ve never even laced up the skates to hit the ice for a game. Why do you [...]

As you may recall, I made 10 predictions for 2010 and, for the most part, my predictions have come to pass. From sports to technology, it seems like I had my finger on the pulse of society. While I don’t believe that I am the second coming of Nostradamus, I thought that it would be [...]