Since the 1970s, Vancouver hockey fans have endured a club that has been roller-coaster at best and horrifyingly bad at its worst, often never making the playoffs and even more often getting drubbed in the first or second rounds by clearly superior teams. Since my...
Welcome, Mats Sundin, to Vancouver. I will enjoy the six months you spend in our fair city, but I won’t expect to see you for much long afterward. In the meantime, I hope that too many deckchairs aren’t reordered to make room for you, because all of...
With the season firing up last week I encouraged my friends at Terapeak to take a look at the transaction data around the various franchises on eBay. Here’s what they came up with … not entirely unexpected.
It could be said that hockey is a very Canadian sport. It embodies the Canadian values of humility, camaraderie, sportsmanship, egalitarianism, subtlety, respect for tradition, and conservatism. Inside the confines of the rink, hockey players are larger-than-life:...
Finally! It looks like Gary Bettman, whose tenure at the NHL was declared an unequivocal failure by the Toronto Globe & Mail, might be hitting the rocks. The Globe refers to a Toronto Star article which points out that, in a 30-team league, Canada’s 6 hockey...
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