General posts, including essays and discussions.
Aside from catching up on some reading, my summer to-do list also included watching the Canadian television show Letterkenny. I’m late to the party since the show began as a series of YouTube videos in 2013 (see them here in a Hockey Blog in Canada post) and developed into a television series that aired on…
By Victoria Silverwood September might just be my favourite month in hockey. After a long summer break, hockey returns with a new season and this year we have the excitement of the World Cup of Hockey in Toronto; but what I am even more excited about this month is the long-awaited release of the new feature documentary Ice Guardians.…
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…
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