Weekly Links: CHL Labour Dispute; NWHL’s new deal; and the future of LGBTQ advocacy in the NHL?

The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. The CHL labour dispute just got more complicated with the OHL claiming that the players association broke labour laws by attempting to unionize its players. [Toronto Star] Big news for women’s hockey: the NWHL just landed a streaming deal with…

Hockey violence and the 2012 NHL playoffs: Why a moral panic won’t change the NHL’s cultural tolerance of violence

There has been no shortage of ink spilled in the past weeks about the surprising and upsetting levels of violence that have characterized the 2012 NHL playoffs thus far – including insightful posts from Hockey in Society’s E. Martin Nolan about psychosocial understandings of hockey violence and the fantastical nature of “hatred” between players. NHL…