The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. Enjoy! The featured photo isn’t an article but it is worth sharing. Big props to the Columbus Cottonmouths, of the SPHL, for putting Shannon Szabados on a billboard! In Halifax, Nova Scotia, a hockey mom is fighting for her daughter’s…
*Cross posted on The Rabbit Hole. I have noticed that the new National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL) has been showing a lot of military appreciation on its Twitter feed recently. If you like women’s hockey and supporting the troops, it seems they have a jersey for you: I wrote a piece in 2012 about the increasing…
The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. Enjoy! If you haven’t read Patrick O’Sullivan’s piece for [The Player’s Tribune] about his experiences as a victim of child abuse, stop what you are doing and read it RIGHT NOW. It is extremely poignant, reflective, and a necessary conversation.…
Co-Authored by: Cheryl MacDonald & Courtney Szto One need not look far for stereotypical portrayals of women in society. Consider this video recently posted on Buzzfeed titled “Crazy Things People Used to Believe About Women in the 1800s” (wandering wombs and bicycle face? Really?!). What’s striking about the video is its portrayal of lesbians, because…
The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. Enjoy! We’re starting off with a great article from [The Walrus] on the “puppy mill” that is the Canadian Hockey League. Read about how former Niagara Icedog, Sam Berg, is taking the league to court. [Vice Sports] takes a look…
I recently watched a documentary called The True Cost (available on Netflix) about the social and environmental costs of the fast fashion industry. The basic gist is that our North American/Western consumption habits are ruining the world. This is probably not news but when you see the piles, correction, the MOUNTAINS of clothes that take…
The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. Enjoy! First on the docket, Hockey Hall of Fame inductions went to Angela Ruggerio, Chris Pronger, Nicklas Lidstrom, Phil Housely, and Sergei Federov. Hard to argue with any of those choices. [CBC] Hockey doesn’t often make it into the Wall…
The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. Enjoy! Well it may be “Canada’s game” figuratively, but in actual numbers, for the first time in the League’s 98 year history, Canadians no longer make up the majority of NHL players. [TSN] The WHL is instituting mandatory training about…
The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. Enjoy! The opening day for the NWHL is on Sunday October 11th (Canadian Thanksgiving Weekend!) and the Buffalo Beauts will be handing out commemorative pucks to the first 1,000 attendees. Additionally, the first 500 will receive a Manon Rheaume trading…
*Warning: explicit language included in this post. Chicago sports journalist/broadcaster Julie DiCaro has come under recent fire for her reporting of the Patrick Kane case. She received a litany of abusive tweets and death threats from the Kane supporters, and one rather specific tweet about her movements that forced her to briefly stay away from her office for fear…
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