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...
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...
A shout-out to the podcast Minute Women. If you grew up in the 1990s in Canada, then you likely saw plenty of Heritage Minutes. The Heritage Minutes touted parts of our heritage, and themselves, became a part of our cultural heritage. Well, this...
This week on Small Town Hockey Heroes, we are going to look at Eddie Panagabko, a man who had a brief career in the NHL before venturing to success elsewhere in the hockey world.Born on May 17, 1934 in Norquay, Saskatchewan, he would eventually make...