Farewell Hockey Night in Canada
CBC announced they will no longer participate in Rogers Sportsnet’s coverage of the NHL under their renewed 12 year deal. Hockey is no longer a public cultural good.
Cowboys & Canadians: Ruminating on the Wounded Game I Love
This post is an excerpt from Dr. Sam McKegney’s open access article published in the current volume of the Journal of Emerging Sport Studies. Sam is a settler scholar of Indigenous literatures. He has authored two monographs concerned with Indigenous literary art and is the editor of a collection of interviews on the subject of…
Guest Post: Holding onto Hope for Heated Rivalry, Hockey, and Hockey in Heated Rivalry
Jordan O’Dell, PhD student (he/him) is a Black, Mad (PDDer and OCPDer), pan, cis-man interdisciplinary scholar-activist-practitioner working in the municipal sector and studying in Brock University’s Faculty of Applied Health Sciences. When not working, he enjoys engaging in the leisurely little pleasures of life: streaming a good show, sharing a good laugh, and savouring authentic…
The Revelry of Heated Rivalry: Can It Affect Heteronormative Hockey Culture?
Heated Rivalry became a hit sensation gradually over the past five weeks. What began as a show (based on a series of books by Rachel Reid), presumably targeted towards LGBTQ+ audiences and adult cis-women, who make up a large portion of the consumers of gay romance, quickly became a hit sensation, surpassing the show’s expectations.…
Fake news has found women’s hockey and that’s a problem
Women’s hockey is finally getting the attention it deserves. The PWHL expanded with two new teams this year, merchandise is flying off the shelves, and I can watch game highlights on the tvs at the gym. Just a few years ago, it was hard to find any news items about women’s hockey; yet, today in…
An Important Addition to Women’s Stand-Up Hockey History Books
Photo from https://www.tidewaterpress.ca/ice-in-their-veins/ Ian Kennedy’s Ice in Their Veins: Women’s Relentless Pursuit of the Puck is an important update to women’s (stand-up) hockey history books. Unfortunately, but perhaps unsurprisingly, there are very few books on women’s hockey or its histories, and several of them are out of print. Here is a list, for those wanting…
Good Wood: Bringing circularity to hockey sticks
What do you do with your old hockey sticks? Throw them in a corner? Put them on Facebook marketplace? Hand them down to the younger generation? Upcycle them into some sort of art project? Regardless of your individual choice, hockey sticks have been designed to stay on this planet long after the players who used…
PWHL: Where past, present, and future meet
“The cameras on the PWHL broadcasts have lingered on the faces of the young girls in the stands, waving signs that say the players on the ice give them something to work toward and dream about. But the creation of the PWHL has been just as much of a dream come true for 64-year-old Harrison,…
Call for Research Participants: Concussion Experiences among Indigenous Women in Competitive Ice Hockey
Relevance of the Research In the past two decades, in response to the rising concern over concussions in sport, we have seen an increase in policies at all levels of sport to help prevent, identify and manage concussions. For instance, in response to the concussion-related death of 17-year-old rugby player Rowan Stringer in 2013, the…
Chloé Aurard and History for French Hockey
Pour lire la version FRANÇAISE clique [ICI]. Training camps for each Professional Women’s Hockey League team are set to start on November 15, 2023. This is a historical step for the league as it will mark the official on-ice start of this new league. Before that, the creation of the PWHL in the summer of…
Hockey in Society / Hockey dans la société 