The Chris Chelios Trade Revisited THW Archives | July 18, 2024 It’s rare that one trade catches an entire sport by surprise, but when the Montreal Canadiens dealt defenseman Chris Chelios and a second-round draft choice to the Chicago Blackhawks for…
10 Things You Never Knew About Hockey THW Archives | July 17, 2024 From the THW Archives, written by former contributor Alli Baker and originally published Feb. 16, 2015. So you think you know everything there is to know about hockey, eh? Well if…
Wayne Gretzky – The Great One’s 10 Most Unbreakable Records THW Archives | July 16, 2024 Wayne Gretzky spent his entire professional hockey career (20 seasons in the NHL and one in the WHA) rewriting the record books. When ‘The Great One’ retired following the 1998-99…
Where Are They Now? The Jonathan Cheechoo Edition THW Archives | July 15, 2024 This article was originally written in August, 2015. Updated in 2020. In 2005-06, a 25-year-old native of Moose Factory, Ontario, one of the most northern settlements in the Province located…
10 NHL Oddities We’ll Never See Again THW Archives | July 13, 2024 The saying is that records are meant to be broken, but in certain cases, they simply won’t be broken. Barring radical changes to the playing style and rules of the…
Greatest NHL Player for Each Jersey Number THW Archives | July 10, 2024 Debates over great NHL players have been conducted for decades. People have debated over the greatest player to play each position, who the best goal scorer is, and who the…
Remembering the Los Angeles Kings’ Triple Crown Line THW Archives | July 8, 2024 Growing up in the 1970s as a hockey fan in Los Angeles, I was intimately familiar with three things very few Angelenos had even a remote grasp upon: 1) Los…
The Best NHL Defensemen Ever THW Archives | July 6, 2024 The NHL has a long and storied existence. Legendary teams, lines and players serve as a reminder of days gone by while today’s players continue to forge the legacy left…
The WHA – A Look Back at the Upstart Hockey League THW Archives | July 6, 2024 As the National Hockey League continued to prosper in the early 1970s, there was a demand for more teams in more cities throughout much of the United States and Canada…
The Best Free Agent Signings in NHL History THW Archives | July 2, 2024 Free agency is a very important aspect of the NHL. The best NHL free agent signings, typically of players with high skill, retain the ability to drastically improve a given team…
The Worst Free Agent Signings in NHL History THW Archives | July 2, 2024 NHL free agency generates a large amount of excitement throughout the hockey world every year. In some cases, an NHL team will make a great signing, acquiring a player through…
Blue Jackets: Revisiting the Artemi Panarin Trade THW Archives | June 27, 2024 Bread anyone? It’s been approximately six years since the Russian sensation and “Bread Man”, Artemi Panarin, was traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets in a move that sent shock waves…
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