It has been less than a week since Don Cherry’s tirade against, amongst other targets, ex-fighters who have spoken out against the role of fisticuffs in hockey. But it has not taken long for this story to create considerable fallout for the Coach’s Corner star and for the CBC. Some highlights: Within 24 hours of…
Alexander Ovechkin versus Sidney Crosby. Sidney Crosby versus Alexander Ovechkin. The debate itself and the polarization created by both players is a rivalry that any sport would kill for. They are the marketing world’s perfect storm as far as the NHL is concerned. As any hockey fan knows, there is a strong dividing line between…
On September 6, at Canadian Forces Base Winnipeg, four members of the recently relocated Winnipeg Jets stepped out of a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) transport plane in the official unveiling of the team’s new jerseys. The choreographed spectacle, not to mention the RCAF-inspired logo that now adorns the Jets’ jerseys, made overt the ties…
Don Cherry came out swinging yesterday – swinging against those people, including some notable former NHL pugilists, who believe that fighting should not have a place in hockey. During his Coach’s Corner segment on last night’s NHL season opener, the colourful and controversial Hockey Night in Canada commentator proved that there are, in fact, three…
Welcome to Hockey in Society’s Weekly Links post. This feature highlights articles or blog entries that are related to Hockey in Society’s areas of interest and that may be of interest to the site’s readers. Hockey Links A gay Canucks fan weighs in on the Wayne Simmonds/Sean Avery controversy and provides some analysis of homophobia…
Ken Dryden is known for many things: one of the most prolific eight-year careers ever by an NHL goaltender; a seven-year political career as a Member of Parliament for Canada’s Liberal Party; the author of The Game, considered one of the greatest and most insightful hockey books of all-time. Dryden is now making a new…
In March of this year, Vancouver Canuck’s forward Manny Malhotra had a puck deflect into his eye, which led to a number of career threatening surgeries. The prediction was that Malhotra’s 2010-2011 season was finished and he would be lucky to ever regain normal vision. Fast-forward to the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals and Malhotra made…
Welcome to Hockey in Society’s “Weekly Links” post. This feature highlights articles or blog entries that are related to Hockey in Society’s areas of interest and that may be of interest to the site’s readers. Hockey Links According to Brendan Shanahan, the NHL will examine the role of fighting in relation to blows to the…
By Simon Darnell Sean Avery has transformed before our very eyes. From the tough guy, bad boy of the NHL, known for his cheap shots, on-ice antics, and off-ice dalliances with femme fatales – and provocations of the masculinity of other NHLers in comparison to his own – Avery has somehow turned into a Renaissance…
I am fortunate as a graduate student to study something that I love: sports. Since I was a baby, I have followed sports—especially hockey—passionately and exhaustively. Many of my best friends are also huge fans, and lengthy discussions about sport, often over pints of beer, are a common feature of my social life—as they are…
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