Connor McDavid

June 27, 2017 0

Connor McDavid was born to play hockey. Wayne Gretzky is the Great One, the finest hockey player ever to lace up a pair of skates.  Immensely…

Doug Harvey

May 30, 2017 0

Doug Harvey is the great one that nobody much talks about, yet is one of the best defensemen ever to play ice hockey. Before Bobby Orr,…

Beanpot Hockey

April 5, 2017 0

The Beanpot Tournament is the Civil War of college ice hockey. The Beanpot is Boston’s social event of the winter season.  The first two Monday…

Henrik Lundqvist

March 2, 2017 0

The best goalie in New York Rangers history turns 35 today. Henrik Lundqvist [lend-kvist] is the only goalie in NHL history to record 30 wins…

Forgotten Miracle

February 28, 2017 0

Two decades before the “Miracle On Ice” captured the gold medal for the Americans in Lake Placid, New York, there was another team making hockey…

Original Six

February 21, 2017 0

The Original Six is a term used to describe the six teams that made up the National Hockey League from 1942 through 1967. In 1917,…

Brendan Shanahan

January 23, 2017 0

Brendan Shanahan holds the unofficial record for most “Gordie Howe Hat Tricks” [goal, assist, fight in same game] with 17—15 more than “Mr. Hockey” had…

Phil Esposito

December 22, 2016 0

Phil Esposito scored 118 game-winning goals in his hall of fame career, more than any player in National Hockey League history. Esposito was the greatest…

Nicklas Lidstrom

November 23, 2016 0

Erik Nicklas Lidstrom was the ultimate low-maintenance hockey superstar. Born in Krylbo—a copper mining town in south central Sweden—April 28, 1970, Lidstrom grew up in…

Goalie Mask

November 1, 2016 0

Joseph Jacques Omer Plante changed the face of hockey. In the winter of 1927, Elizabeth Graham—the star goaltender for the Queen’s University women’s hockey team…