The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. Enjoy! After allowing its players to participate in the Olympic Games since Nagano 1998, the NHL has decided it will not participate in 2018 at the Pyeongchang Games. [Puck Daddy] The NHL has released the following statement regarding the 2018…
[Editor’s Note: This post is two days late. Apologies that I was not able to get it posted on the weekend.] 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…
One of my research interests is the ways in which new media such as blogs and Twitter are both reshaping the social experience of being a sports fan and dismantling the near-monopoly that the mainstream media has traditionally held over the interpretation and meaning of hockey. Yesterday, I wrote about the politics of naming rights…
The Globe and Mail has reported that Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) and Ryerson University have reached an agreement over naming rights and usage of the university’s new facility currently under construction at the site of Maple Leaf Gardens in downtown Toronto. The site, which has historical meaning for many Torontonians and hockey fans,…
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