ESPN Loves Hockey After All, Scores World Cup of Hockey Andy Dudones | February 4, 2015 Get your jokes in while you can. ESPN will be airing the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, ending what will be a 12-year hiatus between the sport – at the professional…
5 of the Best NHL-Related Tweets You’ve Ever Seen Walter McLaughlin | November 30, 2014 For a game replete with big, fast, tough players with questionable dental plans, hockey is a pretty funny sport in many ways. After all, not only are there goofy mascots,…
THW Live Fantasy Hockey League: Nearing Playoffs Chris Wassel | March 19, 2014 It really is the season for fantasy hockey playoffs. Most leagues start this week with the rest taking place next week. For the next three plus weeks (or less if…
Rachel And Chris: Fantasy Hockey Bizzaro World? Chris Wassel | January 29, 2014 Welcome to the show that never ends. Come inside! Come inside! It is hard to believe fantasy hockey fans but we are only a couple weeks away from the “Olympic…
Fantasy Hockey He Said/She Said: Meeting! Chris Wassel | January 21, 2014 Any fantasy hockey expert will tell you that the hardest opponent to face is not the unknown but it is another expert. This week on “He Said/She Said”, the two…
Fantasy Hockey 101: The Women Strike Back! Chris Wassel | January 6, 2014 Our “Women In Hockey” series returns on The Hockey Writers. This segment of the series will at times have a more “He said / she said” concept to it but this…
The Chicago Blackhawks, Miami Heat and ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith Sebastian Egerton-Read | March 7, 2013 NHL ice hockey somehow made its way onto a Sportscenter discussion on Monday when ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith was asked to compare the winning streak of the NBA’s Miami…
NBC’s Roenick Calls Out ESPN Clown Stephen A. Smith Steven Ives | March 6, 2013 On March 4, Stephen A. Smith did what he does for a living, which is to flail about some controversial subject at a loud enough volume to drown out the…
Book Review: Dropping the Gloves Rebecca Dobrinski | January 2, 2013 Dropping the Gloves: Inside the Fiercely Combative World of Professional Hockey. By Barry Melrose, with Roger Vaughan. (2012, Toronto: Fenn/M&S. Hardcover. Pp. 240. $27.99 US / $29.99 CAN. ISBN 978-0-7710-5694-9.)…
Five Ways The NHL Can Bring Back Fans Ian Dunham | December 6, 2012 For once, finally, during this whole god-awful mess, it seems as if the senseless and embarrassing work stoppage is coming to an end. We can say this because…
As the NHL Lockout Looms, Will Mainstream Media Give Up on Hockey? Eric He | September 14, 2012 Stop me if you’ve heard this before: one of the four major sports in the United States is on the verge of a lockout. Yes, if a deal is not…
ESPN The Magazine names The Toronto Maple Leafs the worst team Kaylyn Neely | September 8, 2012 According to ESPN The Magazine, the Toronto Maple Leafs are the worst sports team in North America. For the last ten years, ESPN Magazine has released its Ultimate Standings, a…