There are special events and exhibitions, by British wunderkind David Adjaye among others, while those ITT students have designed a one-off pavilion for the festival, a kind of 40ft tower of oversized ice hockey pucks that sits by Lake Michigan.
Instead, with the arena full, and with a choir singing, the Minsk team stood among portraits of the dead and laid flowers on the ice and slowly slid pucks into an empty goal, one puck for each man lost.
When I reached my seat in the steep bowl of the stadium, the players were still slap-shooting practice pucks into both nets.
Lest anyone think that the Swedes didn't show up, rather than show up bravely and then get beaten, one should also reference the wise point, often made by the announcers, that such normally cautious players as Daniel Sedin and Daniel Alfredsson were cheerfully throwing their bodies in front of pucks — offering, one felt, a silent editorial on the significance of the normal N.H.L. schedule.
Some stores sell calcium chloride pucks that you can toss onto the roof to melt that ice.
He and Monica tried the cheeseburgers ("dry hockey pucks") and fries ("hard and cold").
I had to stop the puck — I didn't stop enough pucks".
"I bring pucks to the net, go to the net.
"It seems to be coming from accidents, teammates colliding, players falling on their head, pucks to the head, so whether or not we want stronger penalties for fighting is really separate and apart from the overall concussion issue," he said.
He may have been thinking of Wayne Gretzky, the sport's greatest player ever, who grew up in Ontario skating and shooting pucks in a backyard rink made by his parents.
Yet the fact is that mainstream America more or less decided that it's okay with Jews and Judaism: okay with marrying them, with watching a show called "Seinfeld", with electing them to office, with eating bagels (if you can call those bready pucks served by The Chain That Shall Not Be Named "bagels").All of this was on my mind as I was writing a short piece on Islamic financial products.
