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 Ryan Kennedy a bizarre plea for more frontier justice in the NHL. Read on for gems such as…
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 Don Cherry was offered an honourary degree from Royal Military College, but declined the offer after at least…
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 Bruce Dowbiggen with a nice piece about Don Cherry’s apology, though personally I believe his contrition has more…
Last week The Globe and Mail hosted a live chat with Jim Thomson, the former NHL enforcer whose anti-fighting stance and recent public calling-out by Don Cherry have placed him firmly in hockey’s spotlight – Thomson has been widely interviewed and quoted in the past weeks, and Hockey in Society’s own courtneyszto posted yesterday about…
Update (10:08pm): Earlier today Grimson, Nilan and Thomson released a statement thanking Cherry and announcing that they accept his apology [Globe & Mail] Update (10:19pm): Grimson released a separate, strongly worded statement criticizing the discourse around hockey violence and questioning the role of the CBC in facilitating the promotion of Cherry’s viewpoints [Puck Daddy] Another…
By Simon Darnell What Arron Asham did was ‘classless.’ This is according to no less an authority than Arron Asham. After knocking out Jay Beagle with a vicious (but fairly standard) haymaker in an NHL fight on Thursday, Asham issued an immediate mea culpa after the game. His apology made reference to the way that…
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…
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…
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