WHL 2012 Bantam Draft Top 30
The 2012 WHL Bantam draft is set to go Thursday, May 3rd inCalgary,Alberta. About the WHL Bantam Draft (WHL.ca) “The bantam draft allows for the orderly transfer of players to WHL Protected Player Lists (PPL) from the bantam ranks (13-14 year-olds). The WHL Bantam Draft is an annual outing, in which the Club’s of [...]
Ryan Miller’s Worst Nightmare: Sidney Crosby
Sidney Crosby has proven to be Ryan Miller’s kryptonite over the years, and last night’s loss to the Penguins was just one more chapter…
Early Predictions for Canada’s Olympic Team in 2014
2014 is a long way off. Most people don’t even know where they will be in two years, let alone what the 2014 version of Team Canada will look like. But I guarantee you would be hard pressed to find a true Canadian hockey fan who hasn’t at the very least thought about who will [...]
My Hockey Heritage: Victor Lindquist, Canadian Olympic Hero
My great-great-great uncle Victor Lindquist represents a nice piece of hockey history in our family. Before there were “Miracles” and “Winter Classics” they played Olympic hockey outdoors in the North Country of New York. 1932 marked the first time Lake Placid, NY had hosted the Winter games and was the first time a North American city held [...]
Russia’s Triple Threat Searches For Gold
The Russians always send fantastic talent to every hockey tournament they take part in. There’s always at least one player that appears destined for stardom on every World Junior team they have. Whether it’s Kovalchuk, Malkin, Ovechkin, Semin…the list could go on forever. In this year’s World Junior Championships, there are three new names to [...]
Book Review: Summit Series ’72
Summit Series ’72: Eight games that put Canada on top of world hockey By Richard Brignall. (2011, Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, Ltd. Softcover. Pp. 151. $9.95. ISBN 978-1-55277-883-8.) Like the title teases, eight games returned Canada to world hockey dominance in the 1970s. The arrival of the Soviet Union to world hockey competition was [...]
Is Sidney Crosby Progressing for the Upcoming Season?
It was rumored on Josh Rimer’s Twitter post that Sidney Crosby is still experiencing concussion-like symptoms. Rimer tweeted that Crosby is said to be having setbacks. Rimer claims that Crosby will not be ready for the start of the 2011-2012 season. One has to wonder how much truth is behind Rimer’s post or whether he is [...]
The Power of Twenty
If you want twenty ounces of coffee, barristas at Starbucks will hand you a cup bearing the pidgin Italian moniker, Venti . Want to dial Egypt? Hit two-oh for their international dial code. In sports, twenty has graced the backs of a number of Hall of Famers, causing ten MLB teams, two NFL teams, the Portland Trailblazers and the Los Angeles Kings*** to retire the number. In other corners of the NHL, one name is associated with the number twenty: Suter.
Do You Still Believe in Miracles? – A Review of Wayne Coffey’s The Boys of Winter
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team. By Wayne Coffey. (2005, New York: Three Rivers Press. Softcover. Pp. 273. $13.95 US / $15.95 CAN. ISBN 978-1-4000-4766-6.) Ask many American hockey fans what they were doing almost 31 years ago and they will [...]
Swiss Hockey – An Analysis Of The Swiss NLA
Swiss hockey is becomming a big deal. The NHL sets the bar high as far as talent and wages go but hockey is also a serious business throughout Europe. The NLA of Switzerland being top of that business as far as highest average attendance in Europe goes, not bad from a country of only 7.8 [...]
Ryan Kesler: The Rise Of A Superstar
NUMBER: 17 POSITION: CENTRE HEIGHT: 6′ 2″ WEIGHT: 195 SHOOTS: RIGHT BIRTHDATE: AUG 31, 1984 BIRTHPLACE: LIVONIA, MI, UNITED STATES If any true hockey fan doesn’t recognize the name Ryan Kesler, they must have been living under a rock for the past 5 years. From Kesler’s humble beginnings playing for the Detroit Honeybaked in [...]
NHL on NBC/Versus Major Announcement
Reports are hitting the internet this morning that National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman and NBC have a major announcement planned for 1p.m. EST today to announce the new television broadcast rights for the NHL. The same sources (everything from TSN to Newspaper staff to Greg Wyshynski from Yahoo! Sports Puck Daddy) the deal is [...]
Looking back at 2010 for the Chicago Blackhawks
For Chicago Blackhawks fans, 2010 has held the ultimate hockey high of winning the Stanley Cup, but also some punishing lows. Here’s a look back at 2010 – the good, the great, and even the ugly. January The Blackhawks started off the new year by cruising to a 6-3 away game win over hated division [...]
Top 10 ways to improve the NHL
By Steve Kendall With the general managers of NHL teams meeting this week, it is a perfect time to chime in with the things I would do to make the sport I love better and help it grow: 10. Eliminate the instigator penalty When this rule was instituted in 1992, it was designed to not [...]
Hockey — Not Cancer — On Henderson’s Mind: Anniversary Of THE Goal
Christopher Ralph is a senior sportswriter here at THW specializing in covering NHL prospects and the entry draft. Either I have forgotten or somehow the news eluded me when announced back in February, but Hockey Canada legend (a term which is probably used too loosely in the sports world, but not in this [...]
