Guest Post by Derek Silva and Nathan Kalman-Lamb Derek Silva is associate professor of criminology at King’s University College at Western university and cohost of The End of Sport podcast. His work on hockey culture can be found in Punishment & Society, Crime, Media, Culture, and the Sociology of Sport Journal. He can be found on Twitter @Derekcrim. Nathan Kalman-Lamb is…
Co-Authored with Dr. Natalie Welch. Dr. Welch (@rerunnat) identifies as a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and is an Assistant Professor of Business (Sport Management) at Linfield University. This year, the Arizona Coyotes decided to revive their old Kachina coyote logo. The last time the team wore the Kachina coyote as its…
“You can’t imagine what it’s like to hear your captain, in a room down the hall, screaming at the top of his lungs as they injected the needle into his rib cage,” said Ronning. “Knowing him, he probably thought we couldn’t hear. He would then walk into our dressing room like nothing had happened. That…
Regular readers will know that I like sharing my experiences from adult hockey camps (Ouellette-Poulin Adult Camp [2018] [2019] and Nine Hockey [2019]). Adult recreational players LOVE their hockey, but this fact is often lost on a lot of hockey coaches and programmers. Every time I walk past flyers in a rink, I look to…
On May 12, 2021, Hockey Nova Scotia released its Diversity & Inclusion Task Force: Final report & recommendations. The Task Force was created in December 2019 after Logan Prosper (We’koqma’k First Nation) received racist comments at a minor hockey game. To their credit, Hockey Nova Scotia moved quickly to try to make sure that what…
“We are, as a culture, moving on to a future with more people and more voices and more possibilities. Some people are being left behind, not because the future is intolerant of them but because they are intolerant of this future.” ~ Rebecca Solnit, Whose Story Is This? Last year, the Implementing Anti-Racism Q&A took…
Last year, on March 2, 2020, the Policy Paper on Anti-Racism in Canadian Hockey was released. To date, the Policy Paper has been downloaded over 6,900 times. To celebrate both the one year anniversary of the Policy Paper’s release and the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Dr. Sam McKegney, Bob Dawson, Michael…
To read the English version click [HERE]. Quelle histoire ! Si vous ne savez pas ce qui se passe par rapport à la NWHL et Barstool, vous pouvez vous mettre à jour avec l’article de Hemal Javeri [ICI]. C’est devenu pire ce matin quand Dave Portnoy, Président de Barstool, a posté sa propre vidéo haineuse.…
Women’s hockey has long received the short end of the stick, but when the CWHL folded it laid bare how significant the disparities really were. Lack of viewership, sponsorship, media coverage, statistics, and wages are the common issues that come up but, with hindsight being 20/20, I realized that the lack of research on women’s…
Pour lire la version FRANÇAISE cliquer [ICI]. Oh the drama. If you don’t know what is going on with respect to the NWHL and Barstool, you can get caught up with Hemal Javeri’s piece [HERE]. It got worse this morning when Dave Portnoy, President of Barstool, posted his own hateful video. I will not re-post…
Hockey in Society / Hockey dans la société 