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Jeremy Roenick Sues NBC, Claims He's the Real Victim Here
When will a straight white hockey player ever get a fair shake in this world, man!...
NHL Announces Thoughtless Jerk Auston Matthews as Lady Byng Trophy Finalist
Hockey Guys gonna Hockey Guy....
NHL Training Camps are Going About as You'd Expect
Across the continent today, NHL training camps are opening before the league’s restart on August 1 in Edmonton and Toronto. And considering the time and places we live, it’s going about as you’d expect. ...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the NHL Restart
Major League Baseball’s plan to play a 60-game 2020 season is asking for trouble, as teams are going to be asked to fly from city to city, and coronavirus hotspot to coronavirus hotspot, multiple times a week for a two-month period....
Change the Name of Da ’Hawks to … Da Hawks (and Dump the Logo)
Chicago’s hockey team is going to keep its name. So too, it appears, will Atlanta’s baseball team. This does not come as too much of a surprise, given that it was pressure from sponsors that led to the start of name-change discussions for Washington’s football team, while corporate boosters have eit...
New NHL CBA Guarantees Top Players Will Get Theirs
For the first time since the ’80s, the NHL and NHLPA were able to agree to a new collective bargaining agreement without shutting down the league. This time, the surrounding world shut down the league. But for hockey, going from a self-inflicted wound to just a normally-inflicted wound is something ...
The NHL Has A Different Idea, Except It’s The Same Idea
What we’ve learned so far about sports attempting to come back in the U.S. amongst a pandemic (and the balloon-handed handling of it) is that no model has proven safe. The “bubble” model didn’t protect MLS from having their Orlando bubble contaminated to the point that Dallas FC is being isolated th...
Hockey Culture Continues Its Destructive Path
It becomes harder and infinitely more tiring to pick out particular bits of shit as we crawl through this sewer of history, whether that’s sports or society in general. The next thing you see is hardly more surprising or shocking than the last. So Sportsnet’s Eric Engels’s thread today on how NHL pl...
It Was an Excellent Weekend for Whining in the NHL
For a group of people who have considered themselves the toughest, most down-to-Earth, fight-through-everything bunch for decades, NHL players and fans sure do bitch a lot. We got an excellent example of that this past weekend. ...
Finally, Jarome Iginla Has Peers
Much like the football Hall of Fame, just about anyone gets into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Play in the league long enough, be kind to the writers, and gain any sort of rep for grit or toughness, and you’ll probably get in. Which cheapens the entry of those who are truly generational players. Those wh...
Dan Carcillo’s Lawsuit Claims Junior Hockey is a Cesspool
Dan Carcillo, along with former Western Hockey League player Garrett Taylor, has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Canadian Hockey League that amounts to a smorgasbord of accusations to turn your stomach. Some of the worst include younger players being violated with hockey sticks, being force...
NHL Has No Clue How to Advocate for Justice
The NHL is trying to appear like it’s finally woke and boy is it awkward....
NES Quarantine Pulls No Punches With Blades Of Steel
The Deadspin Sports Quarantine Nintendo Club took a break last week because the laptop that was being used to play old Nintendo games suffered a catastrophic injury that rendered its screen completely useless....
NHL's Statement On 'Today' About Akim Aliu Isn't Good Enough
It took nine days, but the NHL finally responded to Akim Aliu’s devastating story in the Players’ Tribune on May 19, detailing the racist attacks he had suffered at the hands of teammates and coaches in his climb from prospect to pro....
Just Rename It The Alex Ovechkin Trophy Already
One of the footnotes in the NHL’s release of its playing plan yesterday is that, in declaring the regular season over, Alex Ovechkin will once again win the Rocket Richard Trophy for most goals in the season. He’ll split it with David Pastrnak as they both potted 48 goals, though Ovechkin did it in ...
NHL Unveils Plan To Return, With A Few Questions Left Out There Like When, Where And How?
What’s most obvious about the NHL’s “outline” of how it will finish its 2019-2020 playoffs is that it had a huge desire to be the first league to put actual matchups and actual processes in fans’ minds. It’s like giving an animal a name. Makes it harder to kill or something....
NHL Players Approve 24-Team Playoffs. Let’s Take This Idea And Go Totally Crazy With It
The NHL’s plan for resuming the 2019-20 season is a 24-team playoff arrived at in a surprisingly smooth negotiation, agreed to by players, and expected to be made official soon....
NHL Somehow Finds Itself A Model For Reason, Labor Civility In Sports
It’s still impossible to say exactly when the NHL will be able to resume its season, or where it will happen, but the league and the NHLPA are doing their best to answer the question of how they’ll do it....
The NHL's Diversity Problems Haven't Stopped Even Though Play Has
If he’s had a free moment in the past couple months, Gary Bettman probably joked to himself that at least hockey’s problems could sink into the background during the shutdown due to coronavirus. But as we know, these kinds of things never go away, nor should they. Especially when they’re as rampant ...
Old Hockey Man Talks, Proving Again Why That Should Never Happen
Every so often, an old retired hockey player emerges from the haze and muck to provide a quote proving why they probably shouldn’t share their thoughts with the world....