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When the Winter Olympics take place this February in PyeongChang, South Korea it will do so with a noticeable lack of star power when it comes to ice hockey. For the first time since 1994, no NHL players take part in the Olympic hockey tournament. Earlier this year, NHL Commissioner … Read More
Whichever team wins the Stanley Cup this spring, this will be true of its head coach: he will previously have been fired as an NHL head coach. All eight teams in the second round of the post-season were being led by a man who previously had been shown the door … Read More
Bad news for most NHLers—you have a very short time to make your mark. A new study out of UBC, set to be published in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis of Sports, has found that performance peaks for forwards between twenty-seven and twenty-eight, defensemen peak between twenty-eight and twenty-nine, and … Read More
How else would you stay cosy and support the team? These Hockey Sockey NHL onesies ($120) is comfy as hell thanks to polar fleece, ribbed ankle and wrist cuffs, and a sweet hood. Of course, there are versions for every team, and the logo is embroidered. And since you’re thinking … Read More
Wear a dark coloured jersey and get ready to reap more penalty minutes, according to a new study. Published in Social Psychological & Personality Science, researchers found that hockey teams wearing dark jerseys were more likely to be penalized. Researchers analysed 50,000 NHL games over a quarter of a century. … Read More
