Historical Resources and Source Material

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More than a few have commented on the number of stickied threads on the History forum. Considering that we're well into our second century of hockey, I happen to think that we're doing pretty well. Having said that, it is frustrating to have the first half-page of threads be stickies.

As a result, this "mega sticky" will compile all sticky-worthy threads so that they can easily be found.

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Award & All-Star Voting (NHL, PCHA, WCHL, WHA):

• Annual voting results (1912-present) [not open for discussion]
  • Voting research & discussion thread
• Retroactive NHL awards and actual All-Star Teams for the PCHA, WCHL/WHL, and WHA
• All-star teams selected by NHL coaches (1926-27 to 1940-41 and 1945-46)
• PCHA Research

Other NHL resources:

• Official All-Time NHL Results
• Hockey Summary Project (NHL boxscores)
• Draft Rankings by NHL Central Scouting Bureau (1992-present)

Historic players:

• Player Intangibles (Polls of NHL coaches and players)
• Best Players according to their contemporaries
• ATD Biographies

Video footage and pictures:

• Historic video footage [not open for discussion]
  • Video research & discussion thread
• Compilation of Video Documentaries
• NHL 1917-2017: 100th Anniversary Official Documentary
• Hockey Time Machine (Hockey-themed Zoom programs on YouTube)
  
• Let's Watch... Historic Games (specific games + discussion)
• Soviet Video Archives
• Video Studies by Batis
• Old Arena Images & Beginnings

Reading material:

• History Of Hockey Book Feature (presented in association with the Society for International Hockey Research)
• Hockey History Books
• History of Hockey Bloggers
• Newspaper Archive Finds
• List of Accessible Newspapers
• Google group discussions (going back to 1981)

Statistic-based threads:

• Historic Goalie Data
• "By The Numbers" collection
• Hockey Outsider's research collection
• Goalie stats: 1930-31, 1931-32, 1932-33, 1933-34, 1934-1935

International and European Stats & Awards:

• International and European Award Voting [not open for discussion]
  • International and European voting and scoring (research & discussion thread)
  • Soviet best player full voting record
• Goaltenders Internationally in 1964-1990 (stats and awards)
• Hockey in Czechoslovakia and Europe from 1968 to 1990 (some awards and stats)
• Scoring among Soviet and Czechoslovak players in major and minor international tournaments (65-89)
• Soviet players points/goals/MVP top finishes
  
• Soviet players stats vs CSSR players
  
• Soviet players stats against NA professionals
• Czechoslovak players against Canada, NHL, WHA
• Hockeyarchives (French)

International & European Reading Material:

• Early Europeans in North America
• The Soviet Hockey Program
• The Soviet School: Early articles by Tarasov & Co
• Twenty years of Soviet Hockey: 1962 - 1982
• European Elite vs Major Pro

 

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Also, the moderating team will do our best to keep this updated with the best and most helpful links. Please contact one of us with suggestions.

 

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Origins and Development of Hockey

• Firsts in Hockey - Timeline
  Timeline of significant firsts in hockey history from both England and North America.
  
  
• Hockey invented in England... not Canada
  Debates the findings published by Patrick Houda/Carl Gidén/Jean-Patrice Martel ("On the Origin of Hockey", 2014).
  
  
• Goaltenders who started as skaters
  Goes from debating origins of the goaltender position over 1870s Montreal rules to origins of hockey.
  
  
• Origin of Ice Hockey - Emmanuel Orlick 1943
  Covers research on the origin of hockey in Montreal presented by Orlick in the Montreal Gazette.
  
  
• Mega-Thread: Timeline of Rules Changes
  Collects links to threads covering a variety of actual and proposed rule changes from the 19th century to the 1970s
  
  
• Pre-1930 American hockey timeline
  Timeline of mentions of stick-and-ball games on ice in the USA since 1786.
  
  
• Origins of Hockey Cornucopia
  Early mentions and and illustrations of stick-and-ball games on ice in North America.
  
  
• Goalies before 1950 research thread
  Info dump dedicated to the significant goaltenders of early professional hockey.
  
  
• Pete Green - Top 10 Coach All Time?
  Research on Pete Green as a forgotten pioneer of hockey coaching.
  
  
• Evolution of the Power Play
  Traces "power play" back to the 1930s NHL tactic of pressure hockey/ganging attacks prior to the introduction of the center line.
  
  
• European Hockey/Bandy Origins

 

[Theokritos]

Early NHL – season by season ("Everything we know")

1917-1918
1918-1919
1923 Playoffs

Soviet League – season by season

1965-1966

International Hockey – season by season

International Hockey in 1971-1972