Nathaniel Oliver
Buffalo Beauts lead writer for "The Hockey Writers". Credentialed for Buffalo Beauts/NWHL and the 2018 IIHF World Junior Championships in Buffalo, NY, USA. Born and raised in Buffalo, NY. Lifelong hockey fan for over 35-years. Proponent of the women's game.
Author's Posts
One for the Ages: Bill Goldsworthy’s 1973-74 NHL Season
November 18th, 2019 "The Great Expansion" of the NHL in 1967 served as the catalyst that enabled a number of players to jump from barely getting a sniff of an "Original Six" roster to becoming perennial All-Stars. Perhaps no player was a finer example of this concept than Minnesota North Stars' great Bill Goldsworthy. To this day, he still ranks within the...
Beauts' Army Captain Ashley Birdsall Is Helping Veterans With PTSD
November 11th, 2019 All of us have lost someone dear, and it is difficult to say whether we are ever the same afterward. This can especially be the case when the bereavement occurs under tragic and unexpected circumstances. But if there is any sort of comforting prospect from encountering loss, it would be that sometimes a mourner can find inspiration -...
Paul Coffey & the Whalers: Brief but Memorable
November 10th, 2019 Few hockey players have ever been distinguished by a particular sound. One player however, skated so precisely - seemingly as if he possessed the legs of a Clydesdale - that every time he took a stride, the noise of steel cutting through ice resounded throughout the arena from his sheer power alone. There are many who believe that Paul...
Brian Bellows Trade to Montreal
November 7th, 2019 For an entire decade, Brian Bellows was a staple of the Minnesota North Stars and the team's premier sniper. Selected with the second pick of the 1982 NHL Entry Draft, he represented the franchise at three different All-Star Games (1984, 1988, 1992) and was even named an NHL Second Team All-Star in 1990. Playing in 753 regular season...
Islanders' Denis Potvin: Overlooked Greatness
November 1st, 2019 Today's NHL fan does not recognize how masterful of a defender Denis Potvin was when he played. A 1991 inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame, the Vanier, Ontario native was the top overall selection in the 1973 NHL Draft. Potvin would go on to play 15 seasons in the league - all for the New York Islanders. When the subject of "best...
Beauts' Cass MacPherson Is an 'Iron Woman'
October 28th, 2019 From her final year playing junior with the Oakville Hornets to her current rookie season for the Buffalo Beauts, center Cassidy MacPherson has only missed a single game. One of the youngest members of the 2019-20 Beauts, MacPherson recently turned 22 years old on Sept. 23. After four strong seasons of NCAA play for Providence College,...
