I can’t say my life is the worst without hockey because my income doesn’t depend on it. Sure, having a winter without the sport that thrives on the chill of the wind in the air and the snow covering the ground is hard. It was depressing not having a player like Ilya Bryzgalov enlighten ...
Day three of the tournament brings an abrupt change in the intensity level of the hockey betting. The first two days featured mostly games that could have been picked from a hat and been perfect. The time changes now. There are four games tomorrow but the big one is obviously going to be Team USA versus the ...
With the recent passive-aggressive threats coming out of Edmonton in relation to a potential move of the Oilers to Seattle, one can’t help but think of the deep devotion that all Canadians have towards the game of hockey, and the absolute travesty that it would be for another team to move South of the border. ...
This was just a subject that had to be explored. Given all the talk in the past few days of that good old American-Canadian rivalry, this just seemed appropriate. What occurred a little less than two and a half years ago does sting a bit in the Team USA camp. It is more than understandable ...
It’s always subjective as to which hockey playing nation is better than the rest, since results in important tournaments usually vary from year to year, sometimes month to month. However, we (Canadians, that is) always like to believe that we’re just a step ahead of everyone else, including the dreaded Russians. Some would make the ...
Hockey is not the game it was in the 1950s, 70s or even the 90s. This is at least partly because the game in previous decades (as we knew it in North America) was played completely by North Americans (most of whom were from Canada). This has changed dramatically, especially over the past 20 years, ...
After achieving gold in 2010 and a bronze in 2011, last year’s World Junior Championship effort by Team USA was utterly abysmal; it was atrocious; it was horrid; it was a letdown. Having such high expectations, along with returning vets like Jason Zucker, Jack Campbell, and the like, the best USA could come up with ...
Considering that the American Hockey League has firmly established itself as the primary development league of the NHL, and knowing how rabid passionate Canadians are about hockey, what does the AHL – a league that’s very name ostensibly excludes Canada – mean to Canadians? The re-birth of the Winnipeg Jets showed that a new Canadian ...
[This article was originally published over at Calgary Puck] With the recent naming of Steve Spott, the head coach and general manager of the OHL’s Kitchener Rangers, as the head coach of Canada’s entry into the 2013 World Junior Hockey Championships in Ufa, Russia there has been a revival of discussion over Canada’s national junior ...
The seven game round robin seemed to take forever but it is at long last over. Early in the morning, the 2012 World Championships will take place for those of us in North America. That 6am ET start time may be a bit much for most but for the hockey diehards out there, they will ...
