Angela Ruggiero, 2015 Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee. The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. After a brief hiatus, we are back to posting this feature weekly. Enjoy! Mike Richards is the tabloid fodder of the week for the NHL. Rumour has it that he was caught…
The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. After a brief hiatus, we are back to posting this feature weekly. Enjoy! We have had some great new posts at Hockey in Society over the past few weeks. Firstly, check out new contributor Heather Isnor’s piece on parental rink…
Editor’s Note: This piece was first published on June 26, 2014 ahead of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. With the 2015 draft approaching this Friday, it was decided to repost the article given its continuing relevance. In its preview of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, The Hockey News features a Matt Larkin article entitled “Rising…
Post by Heather Isnor Heather is a PhD student in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock University. She previously spent six years at Wilfrid Laurier University, splitting her time between academics in the Kinesiology and Physical Education Department, coaching in the community and running a dance class and intramural hockey on campus. Her…
By E. Martin Nolan Lawrence Martin is a journalist and the author of books on both politics and sport. More importantly, he is the author of the best hockey book that’s out of print. It’s called The Red Machine, on the history of the Soviet hockey program, which dominated international competition before the NHL’s best…
The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. Enjoy! Mexican Women’s Ice Hockey. Yup, you read that correctly. Ice hockey has gained cult status in Mexico City their women are picking up the game quickly! [Vice Sports] And on across the Pacific, South Korean women’s hockey gets a…
I study masculinity and ice hockey from a sociological perspective, so within that context, I am often asked what I think about Gongshow Gear, a Canadian lifestyle hockey apparel company, and the way it portrays male Junior ice hockey players to society. My opinion of Gongshow is that it’s a company with a bit of a…
By Zuzana Botikova Jaromír Jágr, the Czech veteran on ice, is a very noticeable figure of the world’s ice hockey scene… or shall I say the world’s ice rink? And this is not only because of his trademark mullet haircut (a.k.a.: “I see, I hear and my neck is warm”). I guess I don’t have…
A few years ago, I had a conversation with Danny Flynn, who, at the time, was the head coach of the Moncton Wildcats of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. He mentioned in passing that the team consistently had trouble settling on ice time with its home rink, the Moncton Coliseum, from which the Wildcats…
Ever wonder how the chain of misbehaved Junior hockey players got started? I suggest that we look beyond Junior hockey for answers. Every so often the media erupts with stories of Junior hockey players behaving badly. Over the past few years, these eruptions have gathered speed as social media facilitates our ability to share such…
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