Ross Bonander
Ross Bonander is a freelance health writer and book editor. He is the editor of 13 quotation collections-- six of them hockey-related, including his most recent, Modern Hockey Quotations. His homepage is RossBonander.com.
Author's Posts
Jean Béliveau, Miracle of Modesty
December 2nd, 2017 Originally written when Mr. Béliveau passed away, three years ago. The hockey world, and all of Canada, mourns the loss of Jean Béliveau, a man of miraculous talent and total modesty, who played the game better than almost anyone ever has, and who carried himself-- on and off the ice-- with the grace and humility befitting a hockey...
Concussions: This is Your Brain on Hockey
December 3rd, 2015 This is a reposting of an original post that appeared on one of our satellite sites a while back. With the new film Concussion due to be released soon we feel this deserves another push. Overtime is our home of Long Form journalism on all things hockey & culture. We are now porting over many of our best posts from the old site as...
Phil Kessel, Toronto's Resected Tumor
July 4th, 2015 Steve Simmons' recent red-faced column in the Toronto Sun lambasting Phil Kessel for, among other things, eating hot dogs, is a jarring piece of vitriol. By Simmons' estimation, this man, this professional athlete, is the malignant causa sua behind an entire organization's atrocious second half of last season. Simmons gifts Kessel...
A Draft Day Scouting Glossary
June 26th, 2015 Scouting is a profession. Like any profession, it has developed its own lexicon. When evaluating a prospect, scouts use a host of terms, terms that often get repeated during the televised draft when discussing the attributes of certain players. Thanks to some expert input, a few of those terms are defined below in language easy enough...
Top Agitators a Scarcity in Upcoming Draft
June 19th, 2015 Early in the Seinfeld episode where George tries to take home the Frogger arcade game, Kramer mentions an electrician named Slippery Pete who might be able to help. "Is he good, Kramer?" "Oh he's the best. And the worst." This succinct description of Slippery Pete aptly defines the agitator: a sh*t-starter and occasionally a...
Is This Draft Prospect Getting Sandbagged By NHL Scouts?
June 18th, 2015 NHL team scouts are a tight-knit bunch but they're also madly competitive, and all of them are looking for that one player overlooked by their peers; the player only they noticed and who their team can steal on draft day. Sometimes the only way to do this is to avoid giving any attention to that player, and to downplay any talk...
