Hockey players are the most superstitious of all professional athletes
Photo: The Hockey Writers The number 13 doesn’t seem to scare hockey players the way it once did. When Mats Sundin joined… Read more
Hockey History
When Players were Paid Per Stitch
Photo: TIME Magazine – Terry Sawchuk: A Face Only a Hockey Puck Could Love In the mid-1940s, word went out to NHL… Read more
Days When the Trainer Did Sutures on the Bench
The training staff that works with the players of the Montreal Canadiens includes athletic and massage therapists, strength and conditioning coaches, rehab… Read more
You Take One Swig, Belch, and Feel Like a War-Horse
One big question dogged New York hockey fans as the 1950-51 NHL season got underway: What’s wrong with the Rangers? Having battled… Read more
The History of Helmets
Reasons hockey players gave for not wearing helmets, circa 1930: too hot, the sweat gets in your eyes, which makes you tire… Read more
Hockey and Smoking, How Far We’ve Come
The game was a good one, by all accounts, one of the most exciting to have played in Ottawa in the wartime… Read more
Great Hockey Moustaches of All Time
Start with Andy Blair. You have to, really, if you’re talking hockey moustaches, at least in the nearly hundred-year history of the… Read more
Stitches Through the Ages
Hockey hurts. That’s always been true, and the pain has always tempered the joy of what happens when you mix ice and… Read more