General posts, including essays and discussions.
By Alvin Ma “Players from the Canadian Women’s Hockey League are in town!” reads the poster at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau. It was CWHL Community Day, and numerous events were held around the National Capital Region the day before the championship game: a ball hockey clinic in front of the Canadian Tire…
Editor’s note: This article by Mark Norman was originally posted on The All Rounder on March 16, 2016. As the 2015-16 National Hockey League (NHL) season plays out its final weeks on the ice, one of the major off-ice stories has been whether the league will soon announce the addition of two franchises, which would…
Last week, I wrote a short piece about the growth of hockey in Ladakh, India – home to the highest ice rink in the world at 3,484 meters. This small region of the Indian Himalayas, with a population of less than 300,000 people, has fallen in love with hockey. They can only play three months…
The Indian national hockey team has been competing internationally since 2009. Yes, that’s right, India has a national hockey team. It has only won one game in that time (2012 vs. Macau). Nevertheless, Ladakh (“land of high passes”) is home to pond hockey like the game has never seen before – 9,800 feet up in…
Guest post by Tess L. Bracken Tess L. Bracken is a freshman at Dartmouth College, playing Division I Women’s Hockey for the Big Green. She is from Winnipeg, MB, where she played prep hockey for the Balmoral Hall Blazers of Balmoral Hall School. Tess is considering majoring in Neuroscience and a possible career in medicine…
Indian Residential Schools are a dark part of Canada’s history; it is a fact that we would probably prefer be swept under the rug. The history of American slavery continues to be part of everyday vernacular (whether popular or not), yet residential schools and Canadian settlement really aren’t talked about. It wasn’t something that I learned about…
By Alvin Ma “Teams descend on the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, the biggest stage of hockey.” This quote came from a World Cup of Hockey advertisement on the jumbotron but many similar messages came from the players and the organizers of the CWHL All-Star Game, held for the second consecutive season in Toronto. I’ve…
On Sunday, the Edmonton Oilers took to the ice for their annual skills competition with rainbow coloured “pride tape” in support of LGBTQ (lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer) communities and players. The tape was launched in late 2015 by the University of Alberta’s Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (ISMSS) with the following approach: How can the hockey world…
Paul Kariya. Steve Kariya. Richard Park. Devon Setoguchi. Brandon Yip. Andong Song. Vicki Sunohara. Julie Chu. That’s about it isn’t it? All of the Asian hockey players of any consequence who have played at a high level? Maybe I a missed a couple but you get the point – Asian’s don’t exactly have a storied…
“In the US, only 16 per cent of citizens follow science,” says Allen Hershkowitz, president of the Green Sports Alliance (GSA), the biggest environmental association in sports, consisting of 320 teams and venues in 20 leagues across 14 countries. “But 71 per cent of people follow sports. If you want to reach a lot of…
Hockey in Society / Hockey dans la société 