"Get Pucked Up!" Hockey Feature In October Issue Of Maxim Magazine

For those who thought Maxim was solely for viewing half-naked women in all sorts of compromising positions, well - you're half-right. The October 2010 issue might just go down as Magazine of the Decade for three reasons: 1) they have an Anna Kournikova photo spread in 3D, 2) there is a pretty solid story about the new season of The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck, and 3) there is a four-page feature on the NHL. That's got to be more coverage than ESPN The Magazine provides for the NHL all year!

The NHL article is titled "Get Pucked Up!" and discusses the 20 reasons why you should be watching hockey. If you're reading this blog, I would hope you already do. And this is likely an abbreviated overview since we all know there's plenty more than 20 reasons to be watching hockey.

Some of the topics covered in this piece include new New York Rangers overpaid enforcer Derek Boogaard's advice for winning a hockey fight, America's increasing success in international play and the NHL Draft, players' pre-game superstitions (Alexander Ovechkin's is pretty incredible), Duncan Keith's teeth-dropping Game 4 in the Western Conference Finals, hockey wives and girlfriends (i.e., Puck Bunnies), and the Sidney Crosby/Ovechkin rivalry from Sid The Kid's viewpoint.

All in all, this is a well-done edition of Maxim. The hockey coverage would have been enough. But add in Anna Kournikova in 3D and some UFC talk, and can it get any better than that? Probably. But this is still pretty solid.

(For those wondering - and I know most of you are, the 3D photos of Anna Kournikova are up on the Maxim.com website. Without a copy of the magazine, you will need to dig up your own pair of 3D glasses.)