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Thursday, July 10, 2008

What do you get the hockey fan who has everything? Well, Graeme Patterson in Halifax has hooked up a synthesizer/organ to a table hockey game."The sk1 somehow had each key hooked up to each player (eg: A=goalie, C#=right winger etc...) and when the keyboard was played they would move around and such." (More pictures here.)

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I don't know about you guys, but depending on how many of these he can crank out, my Christmas shopping could be finished in record time this year.

Before clicking link: Well, I just wonder how the synthesizer feels about having a hockey game attahed to his organ. I mean, hockey can be a violent sport. And that's a, whatachacallit, tender area. After clicking link: Oh, I see. Nevermind. And holy crap! How heavy is that thing? I break my back lugging our keyboard players B-3 around.

It better be on wheels, is all I'm thinking.

Some Assembly Required, I'm sure. Cool though, wish I had the time and money to create such things.

"What do you get the hockey fan who has everything?" Antibiotics.

It looks cool, but I'm not sure I understand the value. You (a) play the beer barrel polka and the players move randomly (for hockey goal-scoring purposes although tied to the piano keys), or (b) you use the piano keys to try to play hockey (with great great difficulty) and get random noise that is like a 7-year-old jumping on bag-pipes. Am I missing something? Oh. It's ART! OK. I would prefer the traditional bubble hockey with the Boo button to most pieces of art. Unless I could trade the piece of art for bubble hockey, money, and a bag of used pucks. But this does look cool.

"What do you get the hockey fan who has everything?" Antibiotics. After seeing this hockey table, I would've went with tranquilizers but that's a pretty good choice too.

Best. Temple to the Hockey Gods. Ever.

That's almost as cool as the vibrating tabletop football game from the 70's Seriously the ultimate hockey fan gift would have to be the Wayne Gretzky hockey camp where the Great One laces up the skates & joins you on the ice

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