THE NHL has just suspended Raffi Torres for 25 games for slamming an opposing player into the ice. There are many stories in the media that hockey is too violent. But is it? Ratings are higher than ever both in the United States and Canada. The sports editor of the Montreal Gazette wrote on Saturday: [...]
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IS HOCKEY TOO VIOLENT?
April 22, 2012RUSSIAN CRASH: SHOULD SPORTS TEAMS FLY SEPARATELY?
September 8, 2011A private Russian jet carrying a Kontinental Hockey League team slammed into a riverbank moments after takeoff, killing at least 43 people in one of the worst plane crashes ever involving a sports team. An entire professional Russian hockey team was virtually wiped out. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says the crash is “a catastrophic loss [...]
SHOULD SIDNEY CROSBY GIVE UP ON HOCKEY?
August 28, 2011I would venture thay Sidney Crosby is one of the half dozen greatest hockey players who ever laced up skates, right up there with the likes of Wayne Gretsky and Bobby Orr. What’s more, still in his early twenties, Crosby’s greatest hockey is ahead of him. But there is an ominous cloud on Crosby’s career. [...]
IS OUT-SOURCING THE WAY TO GO?
April 9, 2011Canada produces more maple syrup than any other country in the world. We also produced more hockey sticks than any other country in the world. Not any longer. Sher-Wood, making hockey sticks for more than 60 years in Sherbrooke, is transferring its hockey stick production to China to slash costs. About 40 employees will lose their [...]
SHOULD FIGHTING IN THE NHL BE BANNED?
February 28, 2011A new poll just out says 54 per cent of Canadians want an outright ban on fighting in the NHL. Sixty-eight per cent say violence is not an inherent part of the game. However 60 per cent of young Canadians (18-34) are against a ban and nearly half of younger Canadians say fighting is an [...]
