Hockey is evolving—and the thirst for victory once again trumps the fans’ thirst for blood
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How parents (and their lawyers) are killing minor hockey
From 2014: Inside the madness that is driving kids, volunteers and referees out of Canada’s game
Hockey fights: the 5.5555555…% solution
I’m someone who has been fairly tolerant of the status quo when it comes to hockey fighting, so it might surprise you to hear I have a quik-‘n’-EZ answer to eliminating it. Hockey great/political not-so-great Ken Dryden appears in ESPN piffle-factory Grantland.com today with some intelligent, if stale, reflections on the relationship between head injuries and the game we adore. Dryden goes into nostalgia mode, as the camera dissolves to a shot of the Habs battling the Flyers in the old Forum, and he writes:
A note from the enforcer factory
Boogaard, Rypien, and Belak, too, were each well liked and respected. They will be unfairly lumped together because of their deaths rather than their lives — they were different players in different circumstances — but the common theme after their departures was how much each of them was loved.
Can we please now ban fighting in hockey?
A young man dies on the ice. A father hopes for change. Why isn’t the NHL listening?