hockey violence

#MeToo’s influence reaches coaches’ corner

Anne Kingston: Two years after the first mass movement to protest sexual harassment and assault, we see the testing of new tolerances play out in the hockey arena

Stephen Harper on hockey’s problems and his secret life as an author

An exclusive interview with the Prime Minister

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How to put an end to headhunting in the NHL

The league remains dangerously ambiguous about the role of violence in hockey

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Hockey fights: the 5.5555555…% solution

I’m someone who has been fairly tolerant of the status quo when it comes to hockey fighting, so it might surprise you to hear I have a quik-‘n’-EZ answer to eliminating it. Hockey great/political not-so-great Ken Dryden appears in ESPN piffle-factory Grantland.com today with some intelligent, if stale, reflections on the relationship between head injuries and the game we adore. Dryden goes into nostalgia mode, as the camera dissolves to a shot of the Habs battling the Flyers in the old Forum, and he writes:

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A note from the enforcer factory

Boogaard, Rypien, and Belak, too, were each well liked and respected. They will be unfairly lumped together because of their deaths rather than their lives — they were different players in different circumstances — but the common theme after their departures was how much each of them was loved.

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Let us put our faith in Gary Bettman

The government side responds to the NDP’s call for a royal commission on hockey violence.