Hockey History

In the long history of the NHL there have been many moments that the league wished never happened. Some on my list are of course made tongue-in-cheek, and I only restricted myself to 100. Do you have any other examples of incidents in the NHL that led to bad publicity or was just embarrassing...

I'm just going to do a mind-dump of various Yzerman related opinions I have that I think often get glossed over (in general, not necessarily on HoH). These are more "on the margins" things that I think might have some impact on his legacy. Basically, I want to try and flesh out the "Yzerman...

The following is the final list of the top hockey players of all-time as determined by 32 voting members of the History of Hockey community. RankPlayerPositionBornNationBirth City 1Wayne GretzkyC1961CanadaBrantford, Ontario 2Gordie HoweRW1928CanadaFloral, Saskatchewan 3Bobby...

This was a very interesting crossroads series- a young up and coming Penguins against a veteran Flyer team that, contrary to what I once though, did not have a ton of old guys (only 6 players on this roster were 30 or older), but had a lot of playoff experience and postseason mileage. To set...

Okay baseball fans, and even casual ones, you know about Carlton Fisk's famous home run in the bottom of the 12th inning in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series at Fenway Park. Walk off home run to win the game right off of the foul pole. Probably among the top 5 most famous home runs in baseball...

Eligibility Players will be judged only on their performance as hockey players Currently active players are eligible, but will be judged only on what they have already accomplished No, I don’t know what to do with Connor McDavid either Preliminary Discussion Thread Anyone may participate in...

I'm 51 years old and have a vivid memory of all of the 10 Penguins-Capitals playoff series. Here's a synopsis: 1991: 2nd round - Pens in 5 This was the first Stanley Cup year for the Penguins, and they made quick work of the Capitals. The Caps won the first game 4-2.... and were up 6-5 in...

The goal of this project is pretty simple. I set out to create a complete map of the aftershocks of the epic 1992 trade of Eric Lindros from Quebec to Philadelphia. That trade set off a domino effect of transactions which has greatly impacted all 31 franchises over the past 26 years. While...