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, 2012SHOULD THE COACH OF THE CANADIENS BE ABLE TO SPEAK FRENCH?
December 19, 2011Saturday morning, Jacques Martin, who speaks French was fired as coach of the Canadiens. He was replaced by Randy Cunneyworth who is unilingual English. The decision has ignited a firestorm of criticism. Former players and team executives, nationalist groups and the francophone fraternity of sports writers were quick with condemnation, saying bilingualism is a necessary [...]
SHOULD CROSBY BE COMING BACK TONIGHT?
November 21, 2011After 320 days from a concussion that threatened his life, Sidney Crosby is coming back tonight for a game with the Penguins. Although his doctors have cleared Crosby, 24, to play, many people (including hockey fans) think it is too dangerous to come back now. Although concussions are down this year in the NHL, there [...]
SHOULD THE DESIGNATED HOCKEY FIGHTERS BE BANNED?
September 2, 2011In the last few months three retired hockey enforcers have died – two to suicide and one to an overdose of pills and alcohol. These enforcers are paid bick bucks to pro tect their team’s stars on the ice – with their fists if necessary. For example, Wade Belak, 28, who hanged himself this week [...]
ARE THE VANCOUVER ‘CANUCKS’ NOW CANADA’S TEAM?
June 5, 2011Last night Vancouver took a two-game lead into the Stanley Cup final with Boston. Canadians are beginning to smell a Stanley Cup. It has been a long time since a Canadian team hoisted the Cup. The Montreal Canadians last did it in 1993. There has been some discussion as to whether Vancouver is Canadia’s team. Do [...]
ARE CANADIENS HOCKEY FANS THE WORST IN THE N.H.L?
March 19, 2011Gentlemen’s Quarterly magazine has named Canadiens fans as the worst in the National Hockey League and the 11th worst in professional sports. Here is an example of the piece: “In 2003, team veteran Patrice Brisbois was heckled almost every time he touched the puck; the jeering was so intense it likely induced a stress-related irregular [...]
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 [...]
