A collection of 18 posts
Many untimely deaths, serious injuries, abuses, assaults, and incidents of bigotry in hockey lurk in the pages of this book but are too often presented as an opportunity for the NHL to increase its profitability and cultural cachet without actually addressing the material harm being done.
The NHL has demonstrably done nothing substantive to address or investigate the underlying cultural issues that have made hockey toxic, insular, and rife with abuse. So why have campaigns like “Hockey is for Everyone” and You Can Play been covered so uncritically by the media?
This offseason has been dominated by off-ice issues for the NHL. At the draft in July, the Montreal Canadiens provoked the ire of many across the sport by selecting a player, Logan Mailloux, who was convicted in Sweden of distributing an explicit photo of a
Sports journalist Kristen Anderson’s journey through motherhood has certainly been an interesting one thus far, from covering hockey games while nine months pregnant to postpartum depression, returning to work in a pandemic and more.
Time and time again, the National Hockey League has shown that it does not care about the health, safety or well-being of its athletes – who are also workers, and human beings. The NHL's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic is just the latest example of the
The PWHPA is playing hockey this season. Good hockey, even. But the gameplay itself and the postgame scrums make it very clear that these are not just regular hockey games. Each game is competitive, full of skill and physicality, but obviously there is some tension