The Cowboys of the Zamboni Rodeo

It's tempting to write that Jason Cohen is the only hockey writer to have penned a Rolling Stone cover story (about Hole, in 1995), been recognized by the Sex Positive Magazine Awards—in 2008, for his Portland Monthly piece about Mary's, a strip-club institution in the Rose City—and written an appreciation of goetta, Cincinnati's peculiar indigenous porky breakfast treat, in Cincinnati magazine. But it'd be wrong, since Cohen's not a hockey writer; he's a freelance writer who happens to be a hockey fan.