November 2nd, 2017Every year renews the age-old debate as to whether or not the Georges Vezina Trophy and the other major NHL awards should be renamed. The argument (as it appears in examples in each one of these examples) usually goes that the names of bygone hockey legends (often men such as Frank Calder and Conn Smythe who laid the foundations for...
May 29th, 2015The number on the back of your hockey sweater is the one thing that sets you apart from other players. Players numbers are what young players notice, and why so many young kids wear 87 for Sidney Crosby, 8 for Ovechkin, 4 for Bobby Orr and so on. It is what people know and in 98 years of NHL there are many players who have made their...
Hamilton’s Hockey Tigers. By Sam Wesley with David Wesley. (2005, Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, Ltd. Softcover. Pp. 96. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-55028-887-2.) Published during the last NHL lockout, who knew one short statement in a book about a team that left Canada in 1925 would twice ring true in the span of almost a...
