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Death Of A Fighter
If you haven't read John Branch’s excellent profile of the late Derek Boogaard, do yourself a favor. “A Boy Learns to Brawl,” is top-notch:...
Hockey Player Banned 47 Games, Then Cut, For Fighting, Eye-Gouging
Derek Campbell of the Hull Stingrays was nailed with a 47-game ban and subsequently released from his team for reacting violently after being hit against the boards by a Dundee Stars player....
Who The Hell's On The Ice? Cool Interactive Explores Hockey Line Changes
It's hard enough to follow the puck in televised hockey, so forget about tracking the many, many on-the-fly line changes. Luckily ShiftChart, a sample of which you see above, is here to do the work for you. ...
Somehow, A Puck Shattered Glass Inside The Bell Centre Penalty Box
Miraculous timing led to broken glass and surprised Habs fans as Canadiens defenseman Josh Gorges fired a shot through the Flyers' open penalty box door and into a pane of non-shatter-proof glass....
Thomas Greiss' Goalie Mask Features Some Sort Of Demonic Creature
What's with NHL goalies getting so dark lately? First there was Steve Mason putting zombie patriots on his mask, and now Coyotes goalie Thomas Greiss has unveiled his new mask, which looks like it was inspired by your goth nephew Mitch's deviantART page. ...
30 Paragraphs About 30 Teams: A Thinking Fan's Guide To The NHL Season
The following is excerpted from the team chapters of the excellent Hockey Prospectus 2013-2014, by the authors of Hockey Prospectus. Buy the PDF for $14.95 or order the printed book from Amazon....
Fighting In Hockey Will Die When A Player Does
Fighting's going to be banned from hockey; that's a given. It's just the way society and our understanding of sport are evolving. It might not happen for a long time, but I know how it'll go down: it'll be reactionary, in the immediate wake of a player's on-ice death. And it'll look a lot like what...
What's New In The NHL This Year?
The NHL season officially drops the puck tonight with two marquee matchups and some garbage involving the hobbled Oilers and miserable Jets. While loathe to break with our tradition of needlessly dismissive and alienating hockey previews, enough has changed this year to warrant a primer. ...
Something Terrible Is About To Happen
There, in the upper-left-hand corner of the screen. Behind the goal and a step to the left. The videotape is probably a copy of a copy of a copy, as grainy as a Navajo sand painting. A hockey game. The camera pans too fast, too slow, chasing knots of players back and forth across the ice. Medium wid...
Islanders Player Too Modest To Let Bird Flap In The Wind
This poor guy. A teammate in the back of this John Tavares interview poked his head around the wall of the showers and saw nothing but cameras rolling. Apparently in the nude and unwilling to strut his stuff for all the viewers tuning in for Islanders pre-season post-game coverage, he popped back ...
Sabres-Leafs Game Featured Line Brawl And Goalie Fight
Preseason hockey might not count for anything, but the Sabres and Leafs didn't care, getting into a line brawl in the third period of tonight's game....
Steve Mason's Goalie Mask Features Zombified American Patriots
So this is a thing. It's...patriotic?...
The Man In The Ice
Nine years ago, Chris Jones wrote this keeper for Esquire: ...
U.S. Olympic Hockey Jerseys Revealed
America's brave ice warriors will be wearing these as they curbstomb their way through Sochi. Shoulder stars? Ech. But you'll barely notice them when USA players' arms are raised in triumph after embarrassing Canada....
The Unlikely Gay Advocate
Another one, worth your time—Mary Rogan's 2010 GQ story, "Out on the Ice":...
The Flyers Want Fans' Help In Setting The Dumbest World Record
One day, setting obscure, silly world records will stop being a method to generate buzz. Today is not that day....
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Fox Sports 1 Is Already Ignoring Hockey [UPDATE]
Despite claims to the contrary and hiring two of Canada's most beloved sports personalities, today's launch of Fox Sports 1 doesn't bring glad tidings of coverage for North America's most-ignored major sport....
On Second Thought...
Craig Robinson posted this photograph and writes: "This is the sort of photograph that makes me think I should really try to get into ice hockey." ...