A Maclean’s Magazine article by Aaron Hutchins asks “What can our big cities learn from Ste. Anne, Man.?” in regards to producing “a women’s hockey juggernaut, brought to you by small cities and towns”. Of the 23 players on the national women’s team, none of them hail from any Canada’s five largest cities, which together…
I used to love the World Juniors – I was devastated when Marc-André Fleury and his awesome yellow pads were unable to win gold in 2003. This was equaled the next year I skipped high school to watch the gold medal game only to see Fleury score the winning goal on himself banking a clearing…
Recently the Chinese women’s national hockey team did a mini-tour of Vancouver playing against some of the local women’s teams. With one of the few bids still in for the 2022 Winter Games, China wants to be able to hold it’s own in front of a home crowd if the opportunity should arise. When the team…
In keeping with our effort to highlight academic research on hockey, we are pleased to post details about presentations occurring at the the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) annual conference, taking place this week in Tampa, FL. The full 2015 book of abstracts can be viewed here, and you can see…
September 7 marked the 5th anniversary of the tragic airplane crash that took the lives of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (KHL) players and staff, as well as the airplane staff. R.I.P. [Sportsnet] It is 5 years since the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl crash killed 44 players/staff. 4 years ago we reflected on the tragedy. https://t.co/KLew23oIMB — Hockey in…
The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. Enjoy! Ryan Kesler penned an interesting piece for [The Player’s Tribune] about “American hockey”. As a Canadian, what Kesler describes as “American” seems to read as quintessentially “Canadian” as well. Let the debate begin! Last week had a lot of…
One of the things we like to do at Hockey in Society is highlight current sociocultural research about hockey being done by scholars across the globe (you can see various posts related to academic conferences here). Last week, the annual conference for the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS), a scholarly association…
Recently Hockey Canada announced that the national women’s team would play their first game of the 2013 World Championships wearing Livestrong inspired jerseys. That’s right, goodbye red and white (for one game) and hello black and yellow. This decision comes from an attempt by Livestrong, Lance Armstrong’s cancer charity, to distance itself from the whole…
It would seem that when the players take the summer off so too do the hockey bloggers. Well, while everyone else has been glued to the Olympics I have been combing through hockey literature in preparation for grad school applications. If you can’t watch hockey in the summer, reading about it is a close second.…
Sean Mitton is a Canadian living in the United States, and the founder of the ’72 Project. The ’72 Project aims to collect stories from Canadians about their experience of the 1972 Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union, which gave Canadian hockey its most famous and mythologized moment in Paul Henderson’s game winner…
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