It’s a popular misconception that NHL head coaches spend the majority of their time diagramming and implementing X’s and O’s. In actuality, they are mad scientists, performing chemistry experiments in…
Since November, The Hockey Writers and the NHL Alumni Association have teamed up for a monthly series called Ask the Alumni. It provides us with the opportunity to shine a…
The Lone Star Skate: Improbable (But True) Stories of Texas’s Hockey Heroes By Glenn Hart and Rusty Burson. (2011, Austin, TX: Bridgeway Books. Hardcover. Pp. 180. $39.95 US. ISBN 978-1-934454-38-1)…
Although his many accomplishments are certainly worth noting…it may very well be the “Richard Riots” which forever burned the Rocket’s ghost into the soul of the Montreal Forum.
I still find it hard to believe that it’s been over three years now since I last saw Steve Yzerman lace up his skates for the Red Wings. Known as…
A most unlikely achiever of the Gordie Howe hat-trick, for a guy who’s off to a most unusual start with his new club, the Calgary Flames. The Flames shiny new…
The Red Wings have confirmed that Colleen Howe, known to everyone as Mrs. Hockey, passed away yesterday in Bloomfield Hills, a suburb of Detroit. She was 76. She had been…
Sample a handful of hockey moments from this day in hockey’s history. Take a look back at some of the things that have happened on this most random but special of days, try your hand at some February 7th trivia, and fill your brain with more of the game!