The music swelled over 44 seconds of Instagram comments praising Dallas Stars forward Tyler Seguin, across images of Seguin at a Black Lives Matter Protest in a now deleted NHL.com video. The accompanying Tweet read “Listen. Learn. Use your platform to encourage others to do the same” (none of which this video was doing). The…
Today’s the NHL Entry Draft – even more than the Men’s World Juniors, it’s the event on the hockey calendar that makes me most uncomfortable with the ethos of the NHL. The NHL draft, since it’s played on paper and not on the ice, is pure ideology for NHL general managers. Skill seems to become…
By Doo Jae Park This article is revised from the paper: Park, D., Kristin E., B., (2016). Exploring the Racialized Athletic Identity of Korean Ice Hockey Players. Presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Tampa, FL. Which country is the most controversial across the world last few months? What do you…
One of the benefits of an annual November sports conference is the possibility of catching an NHL game in a new city. Mark and I recently attended the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference in Tampa, Florida and, as luck would have it, the Lightning were in town during our stay. In…
[Editor’s note: This piece was published in September, 2016. Given its relevance today, it is currently being pinned on the front page of Hockey in Society.] Co-written by Courtney Szto & Mark Norman. Has any individual ever created as much of a stir for sitting as Colin Kaepernick? Rosa Parks certainly sat in defiance but…
Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse (2012; Douglas & McIntyre) is a harrowing, yet ultimately uplifting, novel that explores the impact of Canadian residential schools on generations of Aboriginal Canadians.Why, then, is it being reviewed on a hockey blog? Although not necessarily a novel about hockey, Indian Horse centrally features hockey, and offers important insights about the…
Don Cherry has stated outright that “Racism is not in the NHL. Of all the sports in the world, it’s the one that doesn’t have racism.” Whether true or false his statement is worthy of examination. If it is true then we have to figure out what it is about hockey that naturally eliminates racism.…
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