A collection of 19 posts
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
On Monday, The Athletic's Katie Strang wrote the latest edition of the now-annual "what will it take for an NHL player to come out as gay" piece. It's not the first (see: 2015 by Pierre LeBrun [https://www.tsn.ca/patrick-burke-nhl-is-ready-for-a-gay-player-1.388059]; Brian Burke to
News broke on Tuesday that Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews has been charged with disorderly conduct following a spring altercation with a woman in Arizona, and the response from many hockey fans and media members has been predictable. While corners of the hockey world
As these things usually go, it felt like an afterthought. On January 22, three days before the NHL All-Star Game was set to kick off in San Jose, California with the NHL All-Star Skills Competition, several high-profile members of the US and Canadian women's national
On the night of November 20, 2014, the team then known as the Boston Blades held a two-hour practice in the Clark Athletic Center at UMass Boston. It was cold and rainy that night, and the rink, situated in the middle of a small peninsula
Handing pro women's hockey over to NHL Board of Directors would be a massive and inexcusable step backwards. The NHL should use their money to support women's hockey. But under no circumstances should they have controlling interest in the NWHL, the CWHL, or "one league."