ice hockey

Pond hockey is a rite of passage for many Canadians. If you’ve always wanted to experience the winter pastime and see what it takes to create an outdoor rink, now’s your chance. Game on!

For some, skating on a synthetic surface is as bad as buying a fake Christmas tree.

As the paid-up holder of a Mainstream Media club card, can I warn the sportswriters away from making too much of the statistical fluke of all eight first-round NHL playoff series starting out tied through two games? The warning will arrive too late for some, but others may yet be saved.

Congratulations to the Chicago Black Hawks on clinching the NHL’s Central Division title seconds before their opening faceoff against the Flames today. It’s the franchise’s first such pennant since 1992-93, when the league’s divisions still retained their old, still-beloved names and the Hawks were champions of the Norris. Of the teams in existence before the renaming (which took place at the outset of 1993-94), only four have failed to win a “new-style” division title: the Islanders, the Kings, the Once and Future Jets, and—wait for it—the Edmonton Oilers.

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The Prime Minister may have scored dozens of flattering photos during these Olympics, but he was clearly out-maneouvered this afternoon by Jack Layton, who managed, by parking himself in front of a television camera at Wayne Gretzky’s restaurant in Toronto, to receive just slightly less airtime than Pierre McGuire.

Let there be no doubt: we rule

Canada wins 3-2 in OT!

The hockey landscape has shifted. Can Canadians keep up?

It involves chicanery

Cue the drumbeats: Canada to play U.S. rivals in men’s hockey final

Finnish flop clears U.S. path to hockey classic; Canadians and Slovaks up next