Hockey
NHL Hockey Fans Left Out In Cold As The NHL Owners Lock Out Its Players -- NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has halted the start of the NHL hockey season by locking out its players. Can the impasse between the NHL owners and its players ever be mended? Bettman reports that the NHL league has a desolate bottom line that lost $224 million US last season. The NHL hockey league is reported to have lost $1.8 billion over the 10 years of its collective bargaining agreement.
Hockey Rules in Real Life -- Every hockey fan has heard of Todd Bertuzzi. Bertuzzi plays for the Vancouver Canucks. Make that "fights" for the Vancouver Canucks. Make that "fought" for the Vancouver Canucks -- he "might" not play again, after breaking fellow player Steve Moore's neck in a brutal attack from behind.
Hockey: A Spectator's Sport -- It is 6:30 a.m. A crisp, cold, frosty winter morning. There are several (indeed, hundreds) of other things you would prefer to be doing at such an ungodly hour on a Sunday morning. All of them, including scouring toilets, offer more of an enticement than battling sub-zero temperatures to head for an even colder arena for a junior hockey game.
Canada Wins Hockey Golds! -- Sunday night was one of the best days of my life. After fifty years, Canada's gold-medal winless streak in men's hockey came to an end.
Is Wayne Gretzky in or out when it comes to coaching? -- Gretzky has not said no to coaching, nor has he said yes, if and when the NHL labor dispute resolves itself. In June, Mike Barnett, General Manager of the Phoenix Coyotes asked Gretzky, who also is part owner, about coaching the Phoenix Coyotes.
The NHL hockey season just keeps slipping away -- According to Gary Bettman, the prevailing NHL hockey commissioner, during a recent interview with TSN, the Canadian cable sports network the NHL hockey season is just slipping away.
Fifty Years of Hockey -- This season Hockey Night in Canada/La Soirée du Hockey is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary...on television. Fifty years isn't a lot in comparison with other great Canadian hockey institutions like the Maple Leafs (75 years) the NHL (originally Canadian; 84 years) and the Montreal Canadiens (92 years). But HNIC/SDH have united Canadians in front of their television for the past half-century, since it turned on to television airwaves.
Maurice Richard: hero d'un peuple -- He was called the Idol of a people, the idol of Quebec having been the role model of the French Canadians who, as he did, tried getting out of their second class status to be something. To get past the grip of English Canada. But he denied this all, he said he was just a hockey player. Two months ago, this man died of cancer. His name: Maurice Richard, the greatest hockey player to ever wear the Sainte Flanelle, the uniform of Le Canadien de Montreal. They prepared a Provincial Funeral for the Hero, official flags flying at half mast everywhere in Quebec.
Hockey: Game or Religion -- I know I've already written about sports but this weekend was St Patrick's Day and, I was thinking about Hockey. March 17th 1955. Sound familiar? It's the Day when 'Rocket' Richard's suspension provoked a Riot in Montreal. 45 years ago. You've got to realise that Hockey is more than a game up here.
The New, High Scoring NHL? -- The NHL decided to go retro this year. That's right. It's not so much that they instituted new rules; rather they went back to some old ones. The hoped for result has happened--scoring is up 24% from 2003-04.
Who's Tops in Hockey and Who's Not: The History of The Stanley Cup -- The National Hockey League needs to do more to encourage better coverage of the hockey games. With so many other sports realizing national coverage, the NHL is sometimes forgotten. However, this year, there's a race for the Stanley Cup, and only one is set to win it. But which team will that be?
The Rise and Fall of Hockey: From Uncertain Beginnings to International Hype -- The road from the pond to the pros has been a bumpy one, but professional hockey is back in a big way. Fans that endured last year's NHL lockout are now enjoying the game from the other side of the glass, as they watch their favorite brawlers on ice continue a game that started on grass.
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Girls Hockey: A Growing and Changing Sport -- Younger boys and girls hockey teams are becoming more popular each year. There was a time when this was not the case, especially with the girls hockey teams. Young ladies did not, as a rule, tend to enjoy the aggressive play that is associated with this game, but the times have changed. There are more females enjoying this fast-paced game today than ever before.
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