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Hockey My Door to Europe By DENIS GIBBONS The purpose of the book was to reveal how international hockey changed my life in the sense of opening my door, not only to Europe but also to the rest of the world. In my teens I was interested in the game, only with respect to superstars...

Since writing last week about the Gilmour brothers, I’ve been spending some of my lockdown time trying to find the story of how Billy Gilmour and his daughter escaped from Nazi-occupied France. If their account actually appears somewhere in print, perhaps it was told in an Ottawa or Montreal...

Feel free to discuss.... started back on Oct 2nd for reference. Criteria is 22 and under, 41 NHL GP or less, no goalies 2019 list: HFBoards TOP 50 Prospects 1-51 1. Alexis Lafrenière - LW:rangers18. Noah Dobson - D:isles35. Seth Jarvis - RW:canes 2. Quinton Byfield - C:kings19. Alexander...

According to Wikipedia (if I counted them up correctly!), there have been 299 sets of brothers who’ve played in the NHL from the league’s beginning in 1917 through 2019–20. Of that group, 47 sets of brothers have played together on the same team, but only 10 have won the Stanley Cup together...

Hi everyone, I always remember that I am French language first, and to write these words it is difficult for me, so be indulgent How I proceed for my list: I'm little bit different from other scout. A lot of scout will look habit of each player(How he play defensively, short shift, hard, go to...

The ice hockey team of the Skating Club of Brooklyn, colloquially known as the Brooklyn Skating Club, appeared as one of the four founding clubs during the inaugural 1896–97 season of the New York based American Amateur Hockey League (AAHL). The three others being the Brooklyn Crescents, the St...

Few fans get to be as lucky as I've been. While working on the 'Toronto Maple Leafs: Official Centennial Publication,' I interviewed about 100 players, past and present, and finished each conversation with, "What did it mean to play for the Maple Leafs?" The answers were quite incredible...

Delaying the second COVID vaccine dose – a medical expert answers key questions vasilis asvestas/Shutterstock Paul Hunter, University of East Anglia The UK is facing an alarming escalation of the pandemic. Primarily, this seems to be due to a new, even more infectious...

Can you think of a player that needed just one more great year - or even just one great playoff run or something else happening to them - that would have given them a rightful spot in the HHOF? Here are a few that come to mind: Theo Fleury - He might still get in. But if he finishes that 2001...

With NHL season starting soon some of these guys are on these lists for the last time, let's see what you guys think of this ranking 1. Alexis Lafreniere 2. Tim Stuetzle 3. Moritz Seider 4. Quinton Byfield 5. Trevor Zegras 6. Kirill Kaprizov 7. Igor Shesterkin 8. Yaroslav Askarov 9. Dylan...

Hi everyone, With international hockey on our minds and the World Juniors tournament underway, I've been asked to present about Father Bauer and the Great Experiment: The Genesis of Canadian Olympic Hockey, which came out in April 2017. Thanks for the opportunity. Here's the synopsis that I...

Eduard Georgievich Ivanov (1938-2013) was a staple on the defence of the Soviet national team from 1962/3 until 1966/67. A curious episode from the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck, however, has led some to falsely assume he played as a forward in that tournament. The confusion was caused by no-one...

About the book: Whether you're a die-hard booster from the early days of Conn Smythe or a new supporter of Randy Carlyle, these are the 100 things all Maple Leaf fans need to know and do in their lifetime. Authors Michael Leonetti and Paul Patskou have collected every essential piece of Maple...

You’d think something as simple as who was the first goalie in hockey history to wear a mask would be an easy question to answer. It’s not. In fact, it’s been surprisingly difficult to nail down. Jacques Plante — though he popularized the concept for modern goalies — was certainly not the first...

Why an antidepressant could be used to treat COVID-19 Volodymyr TVERDOKHLIB/Shutterstock Colin Davidson, University of Central Lancashire A commonly used drug called fluvoxamine was recently tested as a treatment for COVID-19 in the United States. The 152 patients enrolled in...

The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports is a history of the global sport based on research in multiple countries and multiple languages. The author was a history professor for two decades, and the book has the foundation of an academic work, with research done in 20...

Various family constellations have been part of the ice hockey world throughout the history of organized competition, most often made from a set of brothers. The Montreal Hockey Club (AAA), for instance, the first club to capture the Stanley Cup in 1893, had the Hodgson brothers, Billy and...

In his SIHR blog entry from April 5 ("A Londoner upsets the Reds – Wembley Lions versus the Soviet Union 1955"), Stewart Roberts takes a look at the series of games the Soviet national team played in England in November and December 1955, most notably the narrow 3-2 win over Wembley Lion on...

For the seasons 1926-27 to 1929-30, NHL coaches were polled for their all-stars of the season to create all-star teams. I've posted the 1926-27 and 1927-28 teams previously. The 1929-30 teams are new to me and I don't think they have been posted here. (thanks to Pam Coburn for the article). I...

Lion in Winter - Great Britain at the Olympic, World and European Championships 1910-1981. A 652 page comprehensive volume that took seven years of research and writing, describing in detail the exploits and game-by-game action, with statistics, by the players who donned the GB strip over...