Top 8 Hitters in the NHL Brandon Share-Cohen | May 15, 2017 Hitting is an underappreciated art in the NHL. While many hockey debates revolve around the skill and point production of players, the narrative often leaves out the fact that good…
Ranking the Best Goalies of the 2016-17 Regular Season Jeff Seide | May 13, 2017 An NHL goalie’s job is pretty simple: stop vulcanized rubber disks from crossing the goal line. Do it more than the goalie at the other end of the rink and…
Top 5 NHL Defense Corps Branden Poelzer | May 10, 2017 In today’s NHL, defensemen have to excel at both ends of the ice. Possession, mobility, and offensive/defensive instincts are key, and this article highlights just that. Instead of simply ranking…
Why the Stanley Cup Playoffs Are the Best Postseason Kenyon Clevenger | May 1, 2017 I’ve heard and seen a lot of argumentation about whether the Stanley Cup Playoffs or the NBA Playoffs are better as a whole. For hockey fans, it’s pretty obvious what the…
Top 5 Hockey Commercials Kyle Silagyi | April 21, 2017 Generally speaking, hockey players are pretty funny. You don’t have to look any further than Twitter. The accounts of Paul Bissonette and Roberto Luongo “Strombone” are some of the funniest…
10 Players Who Most Deserve Their First Stanley Cup Dustin Nelson | April 14, 2017 Almost every season the Cup champions have a veteran on the roster who has waited a long, long time to reach the summit. It’s one of the best parts of…
It’s Not Easy Being Green Michael Gwizdala | March 15, 2017 It’s not easy being green. Sage words of Kermit T. Frog. As teams break out the St. Patrick’s Day green sweaters, we come to find the color green is not…
Top 10 NHL Defense Prospects Leah Dyck | March 10, 2017 The 2017 NHL Entry Draft is only four months away and conversations about this year’s pool of defense prospects are already interesting no matter what is being said. Among the deliberation,…
Wild’s 5 Worst Draft Picks Kirby Horgan | February 15, 2017 Drafting in any sport is an inexact science mastered by none. Each year, hundreds of 18-year-old prospects enter the NHL’s talent pipeline in hopes of one day signing a life-altering…
Top 10 Mats Sundin Moments THW Archives | February 13, 2017 February 13, 1971, Happy Birthday Mats Sundin! In honour of his birthday, we have pulled this gem from The Hockey Writers Archives, written by former THW contributor Clayton Theriault and originally…
Top 5 Dirtiest Plays in NHL History Emma Miller | February 12, 2017 Hockey is a sport known for being fast-paced and fiercely competitive. Most of all, some people see hockey as good for one thing: violence. Fighting is the blood that flows…
Top 10 Playoff-Making Teams The Hockey Writers | February 11, 2017 The Detroit Red Wings, the City of Detroit, Michigan minor hockey, the National Hockey League and the entire hockey family lost a great champion this week when Mr. Mike Ilitch passed…