Wickenheiser is playing CIS this season
Tag: world hockey summit
One Euro or two?
CHL commissioner David Branch thinks reducing import players to one may be the best route.
$2M is a nice start
Funding for women’s hockey isn’t enough
From the Twittersphere
Tweeps on women’s hockey
No straight answers
Gary Bettman on the NHL and the Olympics
Is Alfie retiring?
Daniel Alfredsson says he won’t be at Sochi Olympics
Private jets, gold medals and roses
Like the best of the best hockey players don’t get paid enough by their NHL clubs, Detroit Red Wings general manager Ken Holland also wants a private jet to get them home to North America. What if, Holland posits, a player is in the gold-medal game on Sunday and has to be back in North… Continue reading Private jets, gold medals and roses
Stop letting kids hit
It feels like we’ll never get away from The Great Bodychecking Debate. We may finally see The Great Pumpkin before there’s an answer that will make everybody happy. When an expert like Dr. Mark Aubry stands up and says wait until the latest age possible to introduce it to hockey games, we should be listening.… Continue reading Stop letting kids hit
Eliminate Ontario organizations for cost saving
Alleviating the cost of hockey could be as simple as eliminating the amount of bureaucracy in the game. During the Player Skill Development Initiatives session at the Molson Canadian World Hockey Summit, one minor hockey volunteer noted a bigger cost will hit us in the face very shortly. “The deterioration of facilities is a tsunami… Continue reading Eliminate Ontario organizations for cost saving
Healthy, no doping players = skilled players
Healthy players develop skills better than unhealthy players