Last week, Players Against Hate (PAH) launched a database for reporting racist incidents in hockey. It is the first public database cataloguing racism in youth hockey. The fact that this kind of oversight and data gathering mechanism is new to hockey, is telling in and of itself. PAH received a grant from the Palmer Foundation…
When I was growing up in Vancouver, there were two groups of people in every hockey dressing room: there were the “White Kids” and the “Brown/Asian Kids”, and there was me. Nobody ever spoke about these groups and yet, they existed. I didn’t have this experience in my neighbourhood or my school and although I…
Translated by Barbara Ravel. For the English version click [HERE]. Cela a pris environ un an mais j’ai tranquillement abandonné les études sur le hockey. Je voulais écrire un dernier article pour Hockey dans la Société il y a des mois de ça mais, pour être honnête, je ne savais pas vraiment quoi dire, où arrêter, comment conclure. J’ai…
Hockey is a slow game to adapt, painfully slow. Yet goaltending over the last quarter century has been completely revolutionized, far outpacing the myths the game thrives on. Hockey in Society alumus Cheryl MacDonald organized an interdisciplinary online symposium that brought together athletes and academics from science, social science, and arts backgrounds to discuss the…
Cette traduction a été effectuée à l’automne 2020 par les étudiants du cours de Sociologie du sport de l’Université Laurentienne (Sudbury, Ontario), en collaboration avec leur enseignante à l’École de kinésiologie et des sciences de la santé, Barbara Ravel, PhD. L’année dernière, Tim Hortons a travaillé avec le conglomérat de jouets Mattel pour lancer « une…
Roundtables are an occasional feature on Hockey in Society. Roundtables present brief commentaries from Hockey in Society contributors on pressing or timely issues within hockey and its culture, with the aim of presenting multiple critical viewpoints on the topic under discussion. In the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, the Arizona Coyotes signed Mitchell Miller (University of…
When I was in grade 10, I had an assignment in history class where we had to create a monument capturing a moment in Canadian history we felt deserved to be honoured. Mine was something quite different than those of my peers; I made a 5-foot-tall stick person, made entirely out of old hockey sticks,…
In the summer of 2019, Alysha Bains (PhD student, Simon Fraser University, School of Communication) and I went to Calgary, Alberta for a week to hang out with Apna Hockey, an organization that aims to provide South Asian hockey participants with a safe space to enjoy and learn the game of hockey. We were going…
Author’s Note: To be transparent, I know Sami Jo Small. She has been incredibly kind to me and I consider her a mentor and a friend. However, at the same time I have tried to be as honest and unbiased as I can be in my review of her autobiography. Luckily, but not surprisingly, I…
Harnaryan Singh has slowly become a household name for hockey families across Canada. In 2008, he started as the play-by-play commentator on the Hockey Night Punjabi broadcast, and to date, has called over 700 games for the program. Today, he works on both Punjabi and English hockey coverage. Singh was born to be a commentator. I have…
