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To serve and forecheck
Louise Warren. (Photograph by Colin Way) Louise Warren is a forward on the Calgary Inferno. It’s an unpaid gig—with the exception of a few team-related expenses that are covered—and so like most pros...
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Dominic Cozzolino gets back into the game
Hockey player Dominic Cozzolino. (Photograph by Finn O’Hara) With two minutes to go in a crucial AA hockey playoff game, Dominic Cozzolino took a shot on goal, was checked from behind and slid into the...
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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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A best friend remembers Gordie Howe
Felix Gatt and Gordie Howe in 2014. (Felix Gatt/Facebook) Felix Gatt didn’t know a thing about hockey when he first moved to Detroit from Malta. But as a teen in the 1950s he and his brother would go...
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Wayne Gretzky’s silent tribute to Gordie Howe
Mourners and NHL fans pay their respects to legendary hockey Hall of Famer Gordie Howe at his visitation at Joe Louis Arena June 14, 2016 in Detroit Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) In...
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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) The Great One has done—and seen—it all. The NHL’s all-time leading scorer, nine-time MVP, winner of four...
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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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For Tory and Liberal MPs, the puck stops here
Conservative MP Blaine Calkins tries to get the puck around Liberal goalie Marc Miller during a charity hockey match in support of the Terry Fox Foundation at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa....
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Saying goodbye to minor hockey, lunatic parents, and that smell
(Photo illustration by Lauren Cattermole and Gerrit de Jonge) Our oldest son just played the final game of his minor hockey career, a milestone that reliably sends parents into spasms of nostalgia and...
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Justin Trudeau was right: you should cheer for the Senators
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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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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Are we willing to embrace ‘Canada’s team’ in hockey playoffs?
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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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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Crosby’s golden goal has to be Canada’s most iconic sports moment
“Iggy!” It was the call heard ’round the hockey world, and it certainly rang out loud and clear through the television set in the common area of my school residence in Karlstad, Sweden. I was a...
View ArticleKen Dryden on how Gary Bettman can help fix hockey
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A three-way hockey rink and nine other patents for unusual hockey inventions
(Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) As the world’s most hockey-obsessed nation, it would be shocking if we weren’t creating scores of new hockey-related products for an eager nation. Well, we are. Some...
View ArticleThe slippery rules of Canada’s new $5.6M ice rink, unveiled
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View ArticleA 16-year-old phenom, a gifted captain and a beloved coach are among the dead...
Updated Monday, April 9 at 10:05 a.m. The hockey world is reeling after 15 people were reported dead following a collision Friday near Saskatoon involving a junior hockey team. The Humboldt Broncos, a...
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Twitter reacts to Don Cherry’s poppy rant
UPDATE, Nov. 11, 2019: Sportsnet has fired Don Cherry. More details here. Don Cherry is known for his loud suits and even louder mouth. A few days before Remembrance Day, the 85-year-old hockey...
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Don Cherry was an unchanging man in a changing world. Finally, the world...
Brett Popplewell is an author and assistant professor of journalism at Carleton University. His writing has appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, Mother Jones and The Best American Sports Writing. It’s a...
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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...
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Hockey’s chance to reckon with its culture of abuse
Canadian professional ice hockey player Akim Aliu (Photograph by Jalani Morgan) It’s six o’clock on a Thursday night at a rented rink in the sprawl stretching north from Toronto. Akim Aliu stands...
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Black hockey players on loving a sport that doesn’t love them back
On Aug. 1, Dumba, a Filipino-Canadian player, became the first NHLer to take a knee, with support from Subban (left) and Nurse (Dave Sandford/NHLI/Getty Images) Every year, the Institute for Diversity...
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A 330-kilometre trek for the love of hockey
Sebastian (left) and Aries (right) Benuen embrace after making it home to Sheshatshiu after a 330-kilometre walk from Churchill Falls. (Courtesy of Sebastian Benuen) Life is not always easy in...
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Mark Messier on leadership, trust and magic mushrooms
.longform-title { font-family: "merriweather", serif !important; margin: 30px 0 30px 0 !important; } He’s a six-time Stanley Cup winner, the second most prolific playoff-points scorer ever, a two-time...
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Luke Prokop on striving to reach hockey’s pinnacle—on his own terms
On July 19, Prokop (seen here at the Saddledome) became the first active player under NHL contract to publicly come out as gay (Candice Ward/Calgary Hitmen) It was a tough decision to come out. I...
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The 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...
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Q&A: Ken Dryden on the Summit Series 50 years later
Ken Dryden, 74, is a lawyer, businessman, author and former federal cabinet minister. But what Canadians most remember him for is his Hall of Fame career in hockey. What Dryden recalls most vividly...
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The 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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Dear Leafs: Thank you for sucking
It would be poor form to allow the NHL regular season to come to a close without taking a moment to deliver a heartfelt message of appreciation to the unsung heroes of 2014-15: Thank you, Toronto...
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The Screech Owls skate off the ice
Photograph by Della Rollins When publisher Doug Gibson first approached Roy MacGregor to write a hockey series for reluctant preteen readers, the author and journalist figured it would be...
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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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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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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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How hockey can change its energy-hogging, carbon-spewing ways
London Knights goalie Michael Houser stands in front of his net while fog cover the ice during the third period of their round-robin Memorial Cup ice hockey game in Shawinigan, Quebec. (Vincent...
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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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