When the topic of NHL players strikes come up, we tend to look to the 1992 strike, the 2005 strike that wiped out the NHL season completely and the 2012 strike that caused a shortened season. While those strikes had a huge impact on the NHL as we...
The 1970s were a chaotic time for the NHL and professional hockey in general. With the WHA bringing in franchises throughout the United States and Canada, the NHL raced to catch up. Since 1967, the NHL had continued to add franchises and some...
Few things have shaken up the hockey world more than when the NHL lost one of its biggest stars, Bobby Hull, to a rival league. Such a thing was thought to be impossible. The NHL carried more prestige and power and hockey players across Canada...
Only a few NHL players have awards named after them. The Vezina, the Art Ross, the Rocket Richard to name a few. One award, created to honour the NHL players who are leaders on the ice and in their communities, is the King Clancy Memorial Trophy...
Today, the NHL is one of the biggest sports leagues in North America and a part of the collective culture of Canada. Throughout our history, the NHL and its players have influenced Canada in various ways. When CBC did a poll of the greatest...
When you hear someone mention a hockey team called the Ottawa Senators, your mind probably goes to the current iteration playing in the National Hockey League. While that team has found success, even reaching the Stanley Cup Final, it comes nowhere...
The NHL has had its fair-share of tough individuals, including the legendary Broad Street Bullies of the 1970s, but few were as tough, or as vicious, as Sprague Cleghorn. The average hockey fan may not know who Cleghorn was, even though he has been...
When you look at the greatest players of the 1950s and 1960s, a lot of names come up like Jean Beliveau, Rocket Richard, Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk and Bobby Hull. There is another name mixed in there though and it is Leonard Patrick Kelly, better...
If there was someone in the old days of hockey who was cut from a different cloth, it was Eddie Shore. Not only was he highly gifted as a defenseman, but he was also one of the toughest guys on the ice and the stories of his hockey exploits have...
I’m going to play a clip from a game on Dec. 30, 1981. It involved the setting of a record that may never be broken. Gretzky would finish with 92 goals that season. It is a stunning record, but what if I told you that there was someone who if he had...