Familiar Last Names on Draft Day: Related Or Not?
One of the many signs indicating your own advancing age is when NHL players you grew up watching, seemingly out of nowhere, have kids that are NHL draft eligible. But…
Ross Bonander
Gabriel Gagné–The Next Ones: 2015 NHL Draft Prospect Profile
Gabriel Gagné THW Close-Up Date of birth: 11 November 1996 Place of birth: Ste-Adèle, QC Ht: 6’5″ Wt: 186 lbs Shoots: R Position: RW NHL Draft Eligibility: 2015 Twitter: @gabgagne27 THW The Next Ones…
Alexandre Carrier–The Next Ones: 2015 NHL Draft Prospect Profile
Alexandre Carrier THW Close-Up Date of birth: 8 October 1996 Place of birth: Quebec, QC Ht: 5’11” Wt: 168 lbs Shoots: R Position: D NHL Draft Eligibility: 2015 Twitter: AlexCarrier55 THW The Next Ones Rankings (February):…
Kameron Kielly–The Next Ones: NHL 2015 Draft Prospect Profile
Kameron Kielly THW Close-Up: Date of birth: 12/13/1996 Place of birth: Charlottetown, PE Ht: 6’1″ Wt: 182 lbs Shoots: R Position: C NHL Draft Eligibility: 2015 Twitter: @kielly11 THW The Next Ones Rankings (February):…
Adam Marsh — The Next Ones: NHL 2015 Draft Prospect Profile
Adam Marsh THW Close-Up: Date of birth: 8/22/1997 Place of birth: Chicago, IL Ht: 6’0 Wt: 160 lbs Shoots: L Position: LW NHL Draft Eligibility: 2015 THW The Next Ones Rankings (February): not ranked Other…
NHL Story on Stone’s Toughness is a Gift to the Plaintiffs
Last night on its home page, the NHL ran a story about Ottawa forward Mark Stone, and the injury he sustained when PK Subban slashed him in game one of…
Remembering Elmer Lach
Today we join the hockey world in mourning the death of legendary Canadiens centerman Elmer Lach. We extend our deepest condolences to the family of Mr. Lach in their time…
Hockey Violence in Quotations
The NHL’s legal problems are beginning to pile up in the form of class action lawsuits filed by former players accusing the league of encouraging its players towards on-ice violence…
Stem Cell Treatment and the Exploitation of Mr. Hockey
No. 9 Gordie Howe has always been something of an outlier. His frame was made for hockey: Short, powerful legs gave him a low center of gravity and made him almost…
Jaromír Jágr the Spacemaker
On the ice, Gordie Howe was an incomparable hockey player. Off it, he’s endlessly quotable. When asked to explain how and why his infamous elbows broke so many noses, Howe…
Hockey’s Real Iron Man
Recently, St. Louis Blues defenseman Jay Bouwmeester sustained an injury and was forced to miss a game, ending the longest active “Iron Man” streak in all of professional sports, a…
Review – Showtime: One Team. One Year. One Step from the NHL
Showtime: One Team. One Year. One Step from the NHL by Ed Arnold (HarperCollins Publishers, Toronto. 2016) Of the three Major Junior hockey leagues that fall under the umbrella of…