Intent to Blow is the child of Joe, Josh and Steve, three lifelong sports fans that love hockey, love to write and longed to emulate the absurdity of the NHL’s most ridiculous rule.
Rule 32.2 in the NHL rulebook, or as it is more commonly known, the “intent to blow,” reads thusly:
As there is a human factor involved in blowing the whistle to stop play, the Referee may deem the play to be stopped slightly prior to the whistle actually being blown. The fact that the puck may come loose or cross the goal line prior to the sound of the whistle has no bearing if the Referee has ruled that the play had been stopped prior to this happening.
In the spirit of this ridiculous rule, we bring you the news of the hockey world. But we do so in the most absurd, backasswards way we possibly can. Like Law & Order, we’re ripped from the headlines, but totally fiction.
We intent to bring you hockey news as it happens, when it happens. But it just may be filtered through our own minds. There is, after all, “a human factor” involved in all of this.
Intent to Blow is (We’re all Devils fans btw):
Joe Bechtel
A Long Island native stuck smack in the middle of the metro-area rivalry. With as many frivolous morons as avid fans where he’s from, someone has to deliver the news in it’s truest form!
A true-blood fan of the game, it’s hockey’s many under the radar absurdities that Joe enjoys most — from Kerry Frasier’s obvious life long dream to become a mime to Steve Cangielosi’s inability to stop talking about feces and self-mutilation on the air. (Shat! Scar!!)
Joe began his sports writing endeavor back in 2005 when he helped launch the popular Devils fan-blog 2 Man Advantage. It was there that he was introduced to Josh Burnett and Stephen Stirling.
Josh Burnett
Josh doesn’t much like talking about himself, especially in the third person.
So instead, here’s some things Josh likes: Hockey (a-duh), music (indie rock, alternative rock, and the 90s), New Jersey, NCIS re-runs, Psych, those few weeks in October when fall still feels like fall, Blue Moon, Tunes in Hoboken, being one of those people who may never actually stop going to school, social media, and The Shannon Rose in Woodbridge, NJ.
Steve Stirling
There’s very little you need to know about Steve, other than he loves hockey and journalism.
By day he works as a reporter for the New Jersey Local News Service. There he writes real super amazing stories about anything and everything that happens in Somerset County in NJ.
By night, he watches the Devils (for better or worse), the Mets (for worse and even worse) and the Nets (lets not talk about it right now) as a rabid sports fan along with his charmingly lovely girlfriend Steff and his two cats Jenga and Ella.
Rock on.
Harrison Attrique (H. Attrique)
Not much is known about the background of Intent To Blow’s resident insider. It’s believed Attrique grew up in rural Emo, Ontario, Canada (on the banks of the Rainy River), the youngest son in a hockey-mad family, as most good Canadian families are.
Believed to have graduated from McGill University in Montreal with a degree in communications, the mysterious Attrique claims to have penned hockey columns under various noms de plume in the past ten years, before landing with Intent To Blow in February, 2010.