James Mirtle has a thorough look at the rate of scoring in today's NHL, compared to previous years. As always, his statistical work is easy to grasp. There were more goals ... Read More

We all know the officially approved hockey story: Every boy at the rink dreams of making the NHL. A boy anointed a "prospect" will do anything to achieve the dream. We glorify their ... Read More

You can't plan a legend, and you can't appoint a hero. Maybe the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" was not the best game ever by a USA hockey team, or the most ... Read More

With the possible exception of soccer's World Cup, no event in sport rivals the Olympic Games. It gets a bit tiresome: the media hysterics, manufactured heroes, sentimental blather, and all that ... Read More

The following article was originally posted in December, 2006. It started an argument that has continued ever since. Care to join the debate? Weighing the combined challenges of endurance, strength, power, ... Read More

For all his on-ice brilliance, Wayne Gretzky's greatest success might be his endurance as a personality. Twenty years after the trade that changed the NHL, and nine years after his final ... Read More

Cooperation, makes it happen! Cooperation, working together! Dig it! - the Sesame Street muppets So is cooperation the new path to hockey enlightenment? Or just a passing fad? In a couple of moves announced Thursday, ... Read More