What's the Toughest Sport of All?
Thursday December 28, 2006
Weighing the combined challenges of endurance, strength, power, speed, agility, flexibility, nerve, durability, hand-eye coordination, and something called analytic aptitude, ESPN.com declares that ice hockey is the second-most difficult and ... Read More
Rory Takes a Hit at the Ballot Box
Thursday December 28, 2006
The "Vote Rory!" campaign is the talk of the hockey world. "Fitzpatrick Falls in All-Star Voting" is one of this week's headlines, as the Canadian Press reports the alarming news ... Read More
The Best Rivalry in the NHL
Wednesday December 27, 2006
...isn't the Rangers against the Islanders, the Flames against the Oilers, or Red Wings versus Avalanche. Montreal-Toronto? Not since your dad had his first beer.
This season's best National Hockey League ... Read More
Crosby and his Fellow Penguins: Up for Grabs
Wednesday December 20, 2006
There are few spectacles more tedious and shameless than the arm-twisting, bluffing, finagling, bamboozling, poor-mouthing, and emotional blackmail that surrounds any campaign for a shiny new sports arena.
But even those ... Read More
Net Gain or Net Absurdity?
Wednesday December 20, 2006
"I know this is going to rock some traditionalists, and I can say this because I'm one of those, but I really think we've got to look long and hard ... Read More
Brawling for Weenies
Tuesday December 19, 2006
Never mind hockey fights. The game that really needs to get rid of fighting is basketball. It's just too embarrassing to let it continue.
Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony earned a ... Read More
The New NHL: "Up and Down Like your Toilet Seat"
Monday December 18, 2006
The daily headlines attest to the Jekyll-and-Hyde nature of this season's NHL.
Who Are the Real Sens? asks the Ottawa Sun, bewildered by a team that is "up and down more ... Read More
19 Years Old and Improving by the Day
Thursday December 14, 2006
Hockey fans in Washington - where the love of Alexander Ovechkin provokes a grudge against Sidney Crosby - will want to take a pass on Wednesday night's NHL highlights.
Crosby's six-point ... Read More
The Limits of the NHL Star System
Tuesday December 12, 2006
The party line on Monday night's Crosby-Ovechkin showdown is that Evgeni Malkin stole the show. That's a nifty headline. But it's more accurate to say that Malkin played at least ... Read More
NHL Old Guard Holding Its Ground
Sunday December 10, 2006
The hockey world breathlessly awaits Monday's showdown of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals, and not because either team is a threat to win the Stanley Cup:
Versus analyst Ed Olczyk ... Read More
As Good as International Hockey Gets
Friday December 8, 2006
The top teenaged hockey players in the world are always on the road during the holiday season. But most of them wouldn't have it any other way.
Excluding the handful who ... Read More
Not Yet Convinced That Canada is Hockey-Mad?
Thursday December 7, 2006
Yahoo has revealed its most searched-for topics of 2006:
United States: Britney Spears
UK: Heather Mills-McCartney
Canada: NHL
Postscript: Here are Yahoo's current Top Sports Searches. And look no further than the Motor City ... Read More
It's Griping Season in the NHL
Tuesday December 5, 2006
If hockey writers and columnists ever approved of the National Hockey League's game, would they have anything left to write about?
From the same crowd that spent the last decade or ... Read More
Hazarding a Guess About NHL TV Ratings
Sunday December 3, 2006
The NHL's latest television ratings in Canada caused a minor media storm last week:
Hockey Night In Canada ratings are off 19 per cent for the early game and a whopping ... Read More