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John Scott, and how the NHL applied hockey’s ‘Code’ on its fans
Team Toews is introduced at the NHL All-Star hockey skills competition in Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 24, 2015. (Team Foligno won the competition.) (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) UPDATE (Jan. 19, 2016): Three days...
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Game on. Can you beat hockey legends in a battle of wits?
A youth plays pond hockey as the sun rises on Pigeon Lake in the region of Kawartha Lakes Ontario February 4, 2015. (Fred Thornhill/Reuters) In honour of the 16th Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada on...
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Could Canada’s hockey teams be any worse? Nope.
Jonathan Bernier after letting the 2nd goal in. Toronto Maple Leafs vs Buffalo Sabres during 1st period NHL action at the Air Canada Centre. (Rick Madonik/Toronto Star/Getty Images) There they are,...
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BONINO! BONINO! BONINO! How a hockey man found his calling
In 2008, Harnarayan Singh was living his lifelong dream of doing play-by-play on Hockey Night in Canada—and he was doing it in Punjabi, no less. He had proven wrong the people who’d told him he would...
View ArticleCherry Picker: Choose your ideal NHL team by its Canadian-ness
Are you a Canadian hockey fan desperate for a reason to cheer? Use our tool to find the right Canadian-ish bandwagon for you The post Cherry Picker: Choose your ideal NHL team by its Canadian-ness...
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Chad Brownlee’s hurtin’ music
Chad Brownlee isn’t the first professional hockey player to suffer a separated shoulder—but he’s likely the first to take that as a cue to become a country music singer. The Kelowna, B.C., defenceman...
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Why corporate logos don’t belong on team jerseys
Exhibit A: The uniforms for the 2015-2016 NBA All-Star Eastern team. (Darren Calabrese, CP) Will the battle over ads on sports jerseys turn out to be as lopsided and inevitable as the U.S. invasion of...
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The ways we’ll remember Gordie Howe, 1928-2016
Bobby Hull #9 of the Winnipeg Jets and Gordie Howe #9 of the Houston Aeros faceoff over the camera during a photo shoot between the two legends before their game circa 1976 at the Summit in Houston,...
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Why Sin City topped Quebec City for an NHL team
Professional sports teams have a hell of a business model. By wrapping their wares in tradition and jingoism, they compel a slavish allegiance from their fans. They sell their logos to their...
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Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life
Wayne Gretzky in conversation with Maclean’s Jonathon Gatehouse. (Photograph by Nick Iwanyshyn) This article was originally published on Oct. 16, 2016 The Great One has done—and seen—it all. The NHL’s...
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Why the disappearance of NHL fighting is a good thing
Toronto Maple Leafs’ Auston Matthews takes part in a pre-game skate before their home opener against the Boston Bruins, in Toronto on Saturday, October 15, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young The...
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Why 2017 will be hockey year in Canada
(Brian Babineau/NHLI/Getty Images) The weathered blue and brown leather notebook with the hand-written label might qualify as Canada’s most important founding document. The minutes from the first board...
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Video replay is ruining professional sports
Referee Garrett Rank #48, working his first NHL game, awaits a video replay ruling during the game between the Buffalo Sabres and the Minnesota Wild on January 15, 2015 at the First Niagara Center in...
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Handling concussions is a team sport. And we all need to be in the game.
Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby (87) takes a hit from Washington Capitals’ Matt Niskanen during the first period of Game 3 in an NHL Stanley Cup Eastern Conference semifinal hockey game against the...
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Twelve fascinating things we learned about Canadians and sports
For The Canada Project, we surveyed 1,500 people for their views on a wide range of issues including the wide world of sports. In partnership with Abacus Data, we asked respondents about their views...
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Canadians oppose using taxpayers funds for NHL franchises
May 13, 2017; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Ottawa Senators right wing Bobby Ryan (9) celebrates with teammates after scoring the over time goal to defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins in game one of the Eastern...
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Ken Dryden: The outrageous, embarrassing, unmissable problem with hockey
Retired NHL goaltender Ken Dryden addresses the “We Can Do Better” Governor General’s Conference on Concussions in Sport at Rideau Hall the official residence of the Governor General in Ottawa Tuesday...
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Here’s how Gary Bettman can fix hockey. It’s easy.
Steve Montador never won the Stanley Cup. He won’t be in the Hockey Hall of Fame. He was never even an all-star. And yet, his lasting impact on the game could be even greater than any of those...
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Hockey’s once-loathed Sean Avery on his grudges, drugs and LGBT support
RALEIGH, NC: Sean Avery #16 of the New York Rangers watches action on the ice during a NHL game against the Carolina Hurricanes on December 1, 2011 at RBC Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by...
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When you’re Gordie Howe’s son, you learn some things
Murray and Gordie (Howe family) This conversation between Dr. Murray Howe and Wayne Gretzky, a close friend of Gordie Howe and the Howe family, took place in October as a precursor to the release of...
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Olympic hockey without NHL players will be a can-miss event
(Harry How/Getty Images) The last time the NHL didn’t participate in the Olympics, a Canadian was featured on a national postage stamp. The problem? It was a stamp from Sweden and it commemorated his...
View Article‘Waves of grief’: Condolences pour in after Humboldt crash
As details about the Humboldt Broncos team bus crash spread, people from across the country, the sports world and beyond Canada’s borders reached out in support and grief. The horrific crash in the...
View ArticleLive ranking: Which of Canada’s NHL teams do you hate the most?
Blame Las Vegas. Not the team—the odds-makers, who blithely rated the Toronto Maple Leafs as 7-1 favourites to win the Stanley Cup. In doing so, they amped up the frenzy that has gripped the centre of...
View ArticleHi sports fans, remember me? It’s the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Ever since Bill Brioux’s beloved Toronto Maple Leafs were eliminated in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, he’s been among the many Canadians searching for a rooting interest in this year’s...
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338Canada: Now for something lighter than politics—NHL projections!
The basic idea for the 338Canada electoral model spawned from a rudimentary Big Bang simulator I was coding for a conference on early universe cosmology, which had been scheduled during the height of...
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338Canada’s NHL projection Part 2: The West
As of this writing, the Vancouver Canucks are on a five game wining streak, including four important games against division rivals. With 46 points in 40 games, the Canucks are by no means a dominating...
View ArticleIs the NHL’s ice age of racial non-progress finally ending?
A historic hockey game took place this past Saturday. Not only was it the first NHL game held in our new eerie pandemic world—no audiences, social distancing, skipping straight to the Stanley Cup...
View ArticleThe story behind Marc-André Fleury’s Indigenous-designed helmet
Last year, when someone working with the Chicago Blackhawks contacted Patrick Hunter via Instagram to ask whether the Toronto-based Ojibwe artist would be interested in working with the NHL team to...
View ArticleThe Prospect: Why Quebec’s Maveric Lamoureux is on his way to NHL stardom
Six-foot-seven is obviously an ideal height for basketball, but hockey? It’s proven to be a major asset for 18-year-old Maveric Lamoureux, a towering defenceman for the Quebec Major Junior Hockey...
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Maclean’s Live: The worst NHL game ever?
Buffalo Sabres center Tyler Ennis (63) scores against Arizona Coyotes defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson (23), of Sweden, during the first period of an NHL hockey game Thursday, March 26, 2015, in...
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Recap: The worst game in NHL history? Probably.
Buffalo Sabres’ Brian Gionta (12) trips over Arizona Coyotes’ Sam Gagner (9) and Tobias Rieder (8), of Germany, during the third period of an NHL hockey game Monday, March 30, 2015, in Glendale, Ariz....
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Playoff joy is everywhere! Well, everywhere but Hogtown.
David Cooper/Toronto Star/Getty Images For hockey fans, spring is all about the rituals. In Winnipeg, they stopped traffic at Portage and Main when the Jets clinched a playoff berth. The “Sens Army”...
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The worst team in hockey wins yet again
Claus Andersen/Getty Images Maybe the most natural metaphor for the Edmonton Oilers’ victory in the 2015 NHL draft lottery is a life preserver. Specifically, a life preserver thrown into the water a...
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Here’s how to decide which U.S. team to back in the playoffs
(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) The NHL playoffs started with such promise that maybe, just maybe, a Canadian team might finally bring the Stanley Cup north of the border for the first time since 1993. That...
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What can Mike Babcock really do for Toronto?
Detroit Red Wings head coach Mike Babcock talks to his team during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Chicago Blackhawks in Chicago, Sunday, March 16, 2014. (Nam Y. Huh/AP) I remember...
View ArticleWhat it feels like to be the keeper of the Stanley Cup
Looking after the Stanley Cup is more intense than you might realize. The high-stakes job, which requires white cotton gloves to make sure the cup stays shiny and fingerprint-free, gives you serious...
View ArticleWhat it feels like to be a Winnipeg Jets fan
Winnipeg Jets fans don’t mess around. These hardcore hockey fans finally had a team to cheer for again when the NHL franchise was brought to Winnipeg in 2011. You can expect serious team spirit...
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Mike Babcock: 23 men, 23 ways to coach
NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Mike Babcock sits down with Maclean’s magazine during Leaf’s training camp at the Mastercard memorial centre in Toronto, ON. It’s been almost half a century since...
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The last days of the hockey brawler
Jarred Tinordi #24 of the Montreal Canadiens fights with Cody McLeod #55 of the Colorado Avalanche in the NHL game at the Bell Centre on October 18, 2014 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Francois...
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Edmonton vs. Calgary: A hockey rivalry, but also more than that
(Andy Devlin/NHLI/Getty Images) Back when life consisted of nothing more than work and “the Oil,” Darren Bakke shelled out thousands of dollars to fly to Raleigh, N.C., to catch two games of his...
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