A few more days and the December 1st deadline for hockey to start will come and go, and will join the beginning-of-the season deadline, the November full-season deadline, the seventy-game season deadline, and the Winter Classic deadline. Soon it will become the fifty-game deadline, then half-a-season deadline. Who knows? Maybe in several months we’ll have [...]

Congratulations to Joe Sakic, Mats Sundin, Pavel Bure, and Adam Oates for their induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame, the shrine in Toronto that houses photos, plaques, artifacts, and memories of players who once played  the sport that has become extinct and remembered by oldtimers who think back to a time, like last year, [...]

Canadian Prime Minister Little Stevie Harper said the other day at the Calgary Stampede that Calgary is the best city in the country. In 1990, on a whim, I quit a good job in Ottawa, my wife got a transfer from the post office, we hauled our two kids out of school and away from [...]

I watched the ”Theoren Fleury: Playing With Fire” documentary tonight that has Theo taking us back to when he started on his downhill spiral and eventual crash and burn, to the streets of New York where he went crazy with booze, broads, gambling, and lots of lines of coke. This was a tortured soul, and a guy who wasn’t [...]

George Hainsworth, who replaced an ailing Georges Vezina in the Montreal nets in 1926, carried the torch in fine fashion until 1933. He won the Vezina trophy in 1927, 1928, and 1929, and hoisted the Stanley Cup in 1930 and 1931. He was also goalie for the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1933 to 1937, after being traded by [...]

Classic Auctions has donated photographs from renowned Original Six photographer Alain Brouillard to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. Beautiful shots of the Rocket, Bobby Hull, Terry Sawchuk and others are included. The link, sent over by Christopher (thanks Chris) can be seen here - Hall’s Summer Treat.

Recently I wrote a small story about Habs great Sprague Cleghorn and some folks commented that they liked to read things about the old guys because they were such a colourful bunch. So I’ve decided to listen to them, and today, I’d like to present another of the stars of yesteryear, Gaston LeBois. Looking back [...]

The question has been asked before. Should Eric Lindros be in the Hall of Fame at some point in the near future? If you look at his numbers, the answer is yes. But as we all know, Eric Lindros is much more than mere numbers. In 760 games, the big guy scored 372 goals and added [...]

  It’s possibly the most important hockey item ever up for sale, and I’m thinking if I sell my house and live in a tent until I die, I can get in on the bidding war now going on at Classic Auctions, the Montreal-based hockey auction house that sends me their catalogue before every auction [...]

(I hope my Russian friends in St. Petersburg don’t get mad at me for this.) Beginning mostly in 1976 after Montreal and Moscow Red Army played that beautiful 3-3 game on New Year’s Eve of ’75, (Super Series ’76), Vladislav Tretiak admired the Montreal Canadiens and thought that if he were to ever play in [...]