The long awaited — though necessarily delayed — NHL season finally begins tomorrow night. The condensed 56-game regular season includes a one-year realignment of divisions — bolstered by corporate names — in […]
If the 2021 NHL season comes to pass…
Let’s begin with the obvious: The National Hockey League’s owners and players appear eager to play a 2021 season. The outline of such a season appears to be locked in: a roughly […]
Predicting the NHL Round of 16 playoff series
My 21-year-old son growled as the final seconds ticked off the clock in Game 4 of the Montreal-Pittsburgh NHL qualifying-round series. “I waited for four months, and the Penguins are gone in […]
Hey, HOCKEY fans: Watch as a 7-year-old gets checked from behind and into the boards
The Hockey News has the story (and, remember, before you get really mad, ask yourself how many times he’s watched one of his NHL heroes do the same). When the London Knights […]
CTE likely destroying hero of “Miracle on Ice” team
The Star-Tribune has the story. Members of (his) family, who were forced to exit the courtroom, have said they are convinced that (he) suffers from CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, after repeated […]
Don Cherry…heading to Russia?
The Guardian has the details. “Hey, Don Cherry @CoachsCornerDC,” read the tweet from the club’s verified feed … . “We heard that you were fired. It’s not good! Come to Russia, we […]
Your 2019-20 NHL predictions
Drop the puck (and the gloves?) because here we go… METROPOLITAN: Washington, Pittsburgh, Carolina, New York Islanders, New York Rangers, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Columbus: The difference between first and fifth in this […]
Female hockey players refuse to play for peanuts
Nor should they! ESPN has the details. More than 200 women’s hockey players — including Team USA stars Hilary Knight, Kendall Coyne Schofield and Canada’s Marie Philip-Poulin — have announced they will […]
A salute…
…most especially this weekend.
Professional hockey league shuts down. Permanently.
The Globe and Mail has the details. “Unfortunately, while the on-ice hockey is exceptional, the business model has proven to be economically unsustainable,” the league said in a statement.
10 changes I’d make to international, professional and amateur sports
Look closely enough, and you could make sensible recommendations to change an institution or organization important to you. No, sport is not the institution I care most about, but it is one […]
The Great One goes to China. He shoots. Um, well, he tried.
The Globe and Mail reports that the best player to ever play in the National Hockey League remains a non-entity in a country he hopes will adopt hockey. John Cappo, a long-time […]
