You Call This A Celebrity Hockey Game?

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Puck Headlines: Alexander Ovechkin knows how to accessorize
Published 6/12/2008 at Puck Daddy
... was to feature a celebrity game of hockey-playing Hollywood stars. Small problem: It appears most of the stars originally announced - D.B. Sweeney, Michael Vartan, Dave Coulier -- have ducked out, leaving Alan Thicke as the more prominent name and seriously jeopardizing the use of the term "celebrity" in promoting the event. What, exactly, does Uncle Joey have to do that trumps skating in an exhibition hockey game? [St. Louis Game Time] ...

The Morning Tailgate
Published 6/19/2008 by Patrick Imig at STLSportsMag
... About that whole Alan Thicke/Blues thing… … he wasn’t the only questionable “celebrity” originally scheduled.  [St. Louis Gametime] ...

Alan Thicke is a God-Damned Celebrity Hockey Player
Published 6/20/2008 at JoeSportsFan.com
... The St. Louis Gametime blog also covered this "story", and noted that the one and only Dave Coulier was originally on the list of celebrity hockey players, but had an engagement "come up".  Imagine, Dr. Jason Seaver and Joey Gladstone on the ice at the same time.  Just... wow. ...

Video: Dad from 'Growing Pains' has unorthodox shootout moves
Published 6/23/2008 at Puck Daddy
... While Brad Lee of St. Louis Game Time mercilessly mocked the event for its inability to present the celebrity team that was first advertised -- openly wondering if Dave "Uncle Joey" Coulier feared a fan backlash for his allegiance to the ...