General posts, including essays and discussions.
Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse (2012; Douglas & McIntyre) is a harrowing, yet ultimately uplifting, novel that explores the impact of Canadian residential schools on generations of Aboriginal Canadians.Why, then, is it being reviewed on a hockey blog? Although not necessarily a novel about hockey, Indian Horse centrally features hockey, and offers important insights about the…
If you are any kind of hockey fan you know that the Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi broadcast (herein referred to as Hockey Night Punjabi) was an integral part of the Pittsburgh Penguins Stanley Cup run this year. It all started with this call on April 28th during Game 1 of the Pens series against…
Last week I attended The Hockey Conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick. This conference only takes place every other year and attempts to bring together hockey enthusiasts of all kinds. We had everything from academics to coaches, and former NHL players to a Canadian paralympian in attendance. As a critical academic, it is both exciting and…
When the list of Summer Reads came out on Hockey and Society, at the very bottom was something I couldn’t not read: a hockey romance novel. Obviously some sort of bastardized Harlequin and Fifty Shades-esque image materialized in my mind. No sooner had that happened, I read Courtney’s note that her search for books about…
By Victoria Silverwood Last night as San Jose Sharks played the St Louis Blues in the Western Conference final of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Mike Milbury, hockey analyst for NBCSN made the following statement: “This is so unsatisfying for me as a former coach to watch a player with a slash that doesn’t really hurt…
Summer is just around the corner which means you need some fun reading to enjoy while basking in the sun or travelling on a plane. Here is a list of 10 hockey books that may pique your interest. I have tried to pull from titles that were released in late 2015 through to ones that…
Privilege operates all the time and often in seemingly innocuous ways. I went to a stick n’puck session recently with a friend and I had to leave earlier than her. Stick n’puck sessions are usually co-ed; translation: 90-100% men. Due to the lack of women that usually show up to stick n’puck sessions, rinks don’t always delineate…
April 18th-24th is Fashion Revolution Week. What is fashion revolution you ask? It is a global movement that calls for more transparency in the fashion industry. We want to know who made our clothes because the commodity form has made it too easy for us to separate human labour from human consumption. Clothes used to…
As part of a larger project I had been doing on understandings of gender and sexuality and attitudes towards homosexuality in boys’ and men’s ice hockey, I located the publicly available Twitter accounts of approximately 75 male Major Midget AAA ice hockey players in Canada. This worked out to approximately 80% of the population I…
*Cross posted on The Rabbit Hole* Last week was the first ever NHL Green Week. It was created in an attempt to showcase the League’s “greening programs and initiatives that are reducing the League’s environmental impact, while calling on fans and partners to accelerate a movement towards a healthier planet.” According to the US Environmental…
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