Lockout Opportunity: Hits to the Head
The NHL has entered its third lockout in as many tries under Mr. Bettman’s commissionership. The fissure, and therefore the dominating storyline, centers on distribution of hockey related revenue, contract…
Don Cherry
Staal or Van Riemsdyk – Who Wins the Fresh Start Challenge?
When the NHL’s regular season ended in April, the Toronto Maple Leafs and Carolina Hurricanes looked like very similar teams separated only by two points near the basement of the Eastern…
Exploring the CBC’s Digital Archives
Is the looming labor dispute making you jaded? Free agency getting you down? Lose an hour or two this off-season in the CBC Digital Archives for Hockey. Lots of great…
CBA 2012: The Quotable Labor Dispute
With word that talks have begun- strike that: With word that the two sides in hockey’s labor dispute have agreed that in fact they are both in New York City…
Get Pat Burns To The Hockey Hall Of Fame!
There is something about a guy who was once a no nonsense cop that became a Stanley Cup winning coach. In between, Pat Burns was unabashed and gruff but he…
Playoff Seeding & NHL Analysts: Two Severe Flaws of the NHL
While we were all getting over the arrogant commentary presented over Philadelphia airwaves by NBC hockey analyst, Mike Milbury, other coaches and analysts felt entitled to chime in and bash…
Cherries of Wrath! Don Cherry and Other Low Hanging Maple Leafs Fruit
If you’re not Canadian or if you’re not a hockey fan, you may not get Don Cherry. He is a Canadian institution almost more so than the broadcasting corporation that…
Don Cherry Was Wrong This Time
Don Cherry is a legend. As many of our readers know, I have been quick to defend him in the past when people would go crazy over every little thing.…
Hockey Book Review: Black and Gold
Black and Gold: Four Decades of the Boston Bruins in Photographs (Revised & Updated). Photography by Steve Babineau. Written by Rob Simpson. (2012, Mississauga, Ontario: John Wiley & Sons Canada,…
Welcome To Subban Land
The Subban brothers may be the next generation of Staal’s or Sutter’s, and they should be the flashiest one yet. P.K.’s obviously already established himself as a household name, and although the other Subban’s aren’t quite there yet, it’ll come in time.
DJ Steve Porter Putting His Own Spin on Hockey for HNIC
You may have heard of DJ Steve Porter from his video mash-ups and remixes on YouTube — his most well-known being “Press Hop”, where he used the infamous Allen Iverson…
Jets Get Thrashed: Reaction to Hockey’s Return to Winnipeg
Jim Neveau, NHL Correspondent It was a day of mixed emotions for the hockey world on Sunday as hockey returned to the city of Winnipeg for the first time since…