*Note – cross posted on The Rabbit Hole Okay, per a request from my friend and fellow blogger Mr. Mark Norman, I have been asked to write a post on the infamous pink jersey/”girl jersey”. It is a topic that divides sports fans like Moses divided the sea. I will try to explain my stance…
On (Canadian) Thanksgiving CBC News aired a timely special with Mark Kelly called “Hockey’s Hard Hits”. In this one hour “investigative report” Kelly interviews former NHL enforcers Jim Thomson, Jimmy Mann and Chris Nilan while also delving into fighting, head shots and Ken Dryden’s expertise. Jim Thomson offers a very candid recounting of how he…
Alexander Ovechkin versus Sidney Crosby. Sidney Crosby versus Alexander Ovechkin. The debate itself and the polarization created by both players is a rivalry that any sport would kill for. They are the marketing world’s perfect storm as far as the NHL is concerned. As any hockey fan knows, there is a strong dividing line between…
In March of this year, Vancouver Canuck’s forward Manny Malhotra had a puck deflect into his eye, which led to a number of career threatening surgeries. The prediction was that Malhotra’s 2010-2011 season was finished and he would be lucky to ever regain normal vision. Fast-forward to the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals and Malhotra made…
Hockey in Society / Hockey dans la société 