Brass Bonanza Silenced: The Demise of the Hartford Whalers THW Archives | January 8, 2024 Hockey fans love nostalgia. We love the past and all the traditions of the NHL. The retro sweaters and the defunct teams, we all love them. It’s a huge reason…
The WHA – A Look Back at the Upstart Hockey League THW Archives | January 6, 2024 As the National Hockey League continued to prosper in the early 1970s, there was a demand for more teams in more cities throughout much of the United States and Canada…
Little Known Facts About the Stanley Cup THW Archives | January 4, 2024 Every hockey fan knows what the Stanley Cup is and hopes that their team will bring it home. Some even hope to be able to lift the coveted silver cup…
Canadiens’ Biggest Draft Busts of the 2010s THW Archives | January 2, 2024 With an NHL-leading 24 Stanley Cups, the Montreal Canadiens are a bit of an enigma. They have the pedigree, but consistent success eludes them year to year, leading fans and…
Remembering the Los Angeles Kings’ Triple Crown Line THW Archives | January 2, 2024 Growing up in the 1970s as a hockey fan in Los Angeles, I was intimately familiar with three things very few Angelenos had even a remote grasp upon: 1) Los…
10 NHL Oddities We’ll Never See Again THW Archives | December 31, 2023 The saying is that records are meant to be broken, but in certain cases, they simply won’t be broken. Barring radical changes to the playing style and rules of the…
Hockey Royalty: The NHL’s Greatest Families THW Archives | December 31, 2023 On Feb. 6, 1990, Brett Hull scored his 50th goal of the season, to become part of the first father-son combo to each score 50 goals in an NHL season.…
Pittsburgh Penguins’ 50-Goal Scorers THW Archives | December 30, 2023 Players who score 50 goals in a season are considered elite scorers. Throughout the league’s 106-year history, 93 unique players have combined to reach the 50-goal plateau 200 different times.…
7 Worst Flames Trades Ever THW Archives | December 29, 2023 In the National Hockey League, making trades is simultaneously an art, a science and a task in intelligent asset management. Over the years, the Calgary Flames have had several general…
Terry Sawchuk – How the Maple Leafs Snagged the Hall of Fame Goalie THW Archives | December 28, 2023 The following is one of our many posts written as if it were 1964, as the events unfolded. It’s a slow hockey news day this 27th of September 1964, so we…
The TJ Oshie Trade Analyzed THW Archives | December 23, 2023 It has been more than eight years since a blockbuster trade went down during the offseason between the St. Louis Blues and the Washington Capitals. The Blues sent forward TJ…
The Bizarre Naming History of TD Garden THW Archives | December 18, 2023 This article was originally written in October, 2015. TD Garden, home of the Boston Bruins, has only been open for a few decades. But in that time, it’s seen countless…