Stephen S
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The history of hockeyness, and vice-versa.
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Occasional Newfoundland content + Charles Portis, Italo Calvino, Geoff Dyer, Mavis Gallant, John Jeremiah Sullivan, & Sergei Dovlatov alerts.
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Occasional Newfoundland content + Charles Portis, Italo Calvino, Geoff Dyer, Mavis Gallant, John Jeremiah Sullivan, & Sergei Dovlatov alerts.
Dunc Munro captained the UTS team that won the first Memorial Cup in 1919. By 1926, he'd gone on to lead a succession of teams to Allan Cup titles, Olympic gold, and a Stanley Cup championship. He was born in Scotland on a Saturday of this date in 1901.
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dunc munro: the old brigadier of bump
He was the most sought-after player in the hockey world in 1924, a bullish defenceman who could do it all, and did. Dunc Munro, who turned 23 in January of that year, already had a Memorial Cup to …
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January 19, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Dunc Munro captained the UTS team that won the first Memorial Cup in 1919. By 1926, he'd gone on to lead a succession of teams to Allan Cup titles, Olympic gold, and a Stanley Cup championship. He was born in Scotland on a Saturday of this date in 1901.
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Sorry to see news of the death of Phil Goyette at 92. As a centreman, he won four Stanley Cup championships with Montreal (in his first four seasons in the NHL). Later, he was hired as the first coach of the New York Islanders.
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phil goyette, 1933—2026
Sad to see the news of the death yesterday of erstwhile NHL centreman Phil Goyette. He was 92. Born in Lachine, Quebec, in October of 1933, Goyette was a dependable member of the Canadiens for seve…
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January 19, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Sorry to see news of the death of Phil Goyette at 92. As a centreman, he won four Stanley Cup championships with Montreal (in his first four seasons in the NHL). Later, he was hired as the first coach of the New York Islanders.
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Hudson Bay Rules ... Toronto bay edition.
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hudson bay rules (toronto inner harbour edition)
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January 17, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Hudson Bay Rules ... Toronto bay edition.
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A birthday today for Boston Bruins legend Jacques Plante, born on a Thursday of this very date in 1929.
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everybody has a slapper
Jacques Plante ended his long and distinguished NHL career with Boston after the Toronto Maple Leafs shipped him off to the Bruins in March of 1973 (defenceman Ian Turnbull was one of the assets th…
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January 17, 2026 at 6:53 PM
A birthday today for Boston Bruins legend Jacques Plante, born on a Thursday of this very date in 1929.
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On a Hockey Day in Canada, here's a view from Toronto in 1923.
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shinnyland
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January 17, 2026 at 3:13 PM
On a Hockey Day in Canada, here's a view from Toronto in 1923.
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"... the 2013 Philadelphia Flyers, the only professional sports roster in history to be comprised entirely of gay players."
Report: NHL Actually Has Had Hundreds Of Openly Gay Players For Years https://theonion.com/report-nhl-actually-has-had-hundreds-of-openly-gay-pla-1819575065/
January 15, 2026 at 2:14 PM
"... the 2013 Philadelphia Flyers, the only professional sports roster in history to be comprised entirely of gay players."
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Heated Rivalry (1935)
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Heated Rivalry (1935)
Glenn Hall holds the fort in February of 1959.
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held ’em, hall
Montreal was sitting high atop the NHL standings in February of 1959, looking back down at Chicago in second. The Bruins were a point behind the Black Hawks the night Boston stopped in at the Stadi…
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January 8, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Glenn Hall holds the fort in February of 1959.
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Very sorry to be hearing news of Glenn Hall's death at age 94. Here's to Mr. Goalie.
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mr. queasy
Everybody knows about Glenn Hall’s stomach: his habit of throwing up before (and sometimes during) each game he played is a standby of hockey lore. “It’s dutifully mentioned in his biography at the…
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January 8, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Very sorry to be hearing news of Glenn Hall's death at age 94. Here's to Mr. Goalie.
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Bracing clarity from Andrew Coyne here. Say hello to Occam's kazoo, in which the stupidest explanation is the most likely one. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: When it comes to Trump’s behaviour, the most plausible explanation is the stupidest
Say goodbye to ‘Occam’s razor,’ and say hello to ‘Occam’s kazoo’
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January 7, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Bracing clarity from Andrew Coyne here. Say hello to Occam's kazoo, in which the stupidest explanation is the most likely one. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Hooley Smith! Here's to him, born in Toronto on a Wednesday of this date in 1903. He won Olympic gold for Canada in 1924 + captained the Montreal Maroons to a Stanley Cup championship in 1935.
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hooley hoorah
Born in Toronto on a Wednesday of this date in 1903, Hooley Smith grew up the city’s east-end Beaches. He won Olympic gold playing for Canada in 1924, then joined the Ottawa Senators, where he lear…
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January 7, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Hooley Smith! Here's to him, born in Toronto on a Wednesday of this date in 1903. He won Olympic gold for Canada in 1924 + captained the Montreal Maroons to a Stanley Cup championship in 1935.
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Sorry to see that former Leaf winger Bob Pulford has died at the age of 89. He won 4 Stanley Cup championships with Toronto in the 1960s, and went on to coach the L.A, Kings and Chicago Blackhawks.
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bob pulford, 1936—2026
Condolences to the family and friends of Bob Pulford, former industrious left winger for the Toronto Maple Leafs, and for many years a distinguished coach, general manager, and executive for the Lo…
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January 6, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Sorry to see that former Leaf winger Bob Pulford has died at the age of 89. He won 4 Stanley Cup championships with Toronto in the 1960s, and went on to coach the L.A, Kings and Chicago Blackhawks.
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NHL goalscoring dynamo Babe Dye died on this date in 1962.
Twice he led the league in scoring in the '20s with Toronto's St. Pats + won a Stanley Cup championship with the team in '22. Later he skated for Chicago. Dye played football, too, for Toronto's Argonauts, and pro baseball.
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Twice he led the league in scoring in the '20s with Toronto's St. Pats + won a Stanley Cup championship with the team in '22. Later he skated for Chicago. Dye played football, too, for Toronto's Argonauts, and pro baseball.
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out and about with babe dye
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January 3, 2026 at 3:12 PM
NHL goalscoring dynamo Babe Dye died on this date in 1962.
Twice he led the league in scoring in the '20s with Toronto's St. Pats + won a Stanley Cup championship with the team in '22. Later he skated for Chicago. Dye played football, too, for Toronto's Argonauts, and pro baseball.
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Twice he led the league in scoring in the '20s with Toronto's St. Pats + won a Stanley Cup championship with the team in '22. Later he skated for Chicago. Dye played football, too, for Toronto's Argonauts, and pro baseball.
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fracas out front
As defensive schemes go, piling on the puck isn’t the most elegant of them all, but that’s not to say it doesn’t get the job done. Here, for example: the Boston Bruins seem to have stymied their op…
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January 3, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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With the NHL hitting outdoor ice tomorrow as Florida's local Panthers host the New York Rangers, a look back to 1938, when Miami’s mostly forgotten Tropical Hockey League skated (indoors) in Miami, with big-name coaches — and barrel-jumping in the intermissions.
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here by the sea and sand: a short history of florida’s (short-lived) tropical hockey league
“On a nearby beach it is no trick at all to get a sunburn in half an hour’s time. Old ladies carry sunshades and fat men sit under the palms and drink mint juleps. Nevertheless, there is ice hockey…
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January 1, 2026 at 7:50 PM
With the NHL hitting outdoor ice tomorrow as Florida's local Panthers host the New York Rangers, a look back to 1938, when Miami’s mostly forgotten Tropical Hockey League skated (indoors) in Miami, with big-name coaches — and barrel-jumping in the intermissions.
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Another sort of evensong.
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another sort of evensong
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December 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Another sort of evensong.
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Playing the puck, NDG, 1957.
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playing the puck
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December 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Playing the puck, NDG, 1957.
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Last night Sergei Bobrovsky passed Terry Sawchuck to move into 8th place all-time with 446 wins.
He is 9 wins away from passing Curtis Joseph for 7th, and 14 wins away from passing Henrik Lundqvist for 6th.
He is 9 wins away from passing Curtis Joseph for 7th, and 14 wins away from passing Henrik Lundqvist for 6th.
December 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Last night Sergei Bobrovsky passed Terry Sawchuck to move into 8th place all-time with 446 wins.
He is 9 wins away from passing Curtis Joseph for 7th, and 14 wins away from passing Henrik Lundqvist for 6th.
He is 9 wins away from passing Curtis Joseph for 7th, and 14 wins away from passing Henrik Lundqvist for 6th.
Terry Sawchuk won three Stanley Cups with the Detroit Red Wings in the 1950s, another with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1967. He was born in Winnipeg on a Saturday of this date in 1929.
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terry sawchuk, 1967: stopped a porcupine with a pike pole
December 28 was a Saturday in 1929, on the day that Terry Sawchuk was born in Winnipeg. He backstopped the Detroit Red Wings to three Stanley Cup championships during the 1950s along with a passel …
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December 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Terry Sawchuk won three Stanley Cups with the Detroit Red Wings in the 1950s, another with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1967. He was born in Winnipeg on a Saturday of this date in 1929.
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Daughter to Lord Stanley of hockey silverware repute, the Hon. Isobel Stanley was a pioneer of the women’s game. Was she also the first to be documented as joining the injury list with an upper body injury?
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breaking news: lady isobel stanley hits the ice, 1892
She’s an icon of the game, a pioneer of women’s hockey, a trailblazer on skates whose name, like her famous father’s, has become synonymous with puck-pursuing excellence. The difference between Lor…
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December 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Daughter to Lord Stanley of hockey silverware repute, the Hon. Isobel Stanley was a pioneer of the women’s game. Was she also the first to be documented as joining the injury list with an upper body injury?
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Sorry to hear that Annette Dionne has died at age 91. She was the last surviving member of the Dionne quintuplets.
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more famous than shirley temple, a bigger attraction than niagara falls — and irresistible prey for the greedy
Sorry to be hearing that Annette Allard died on Christmas Eve. At 91, she was the last the surviving Dionne quintuplet. Born on May 28, 1934, in the village of Corbeil, Ontario, near North Bay, Yvo…
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December 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Sorry to hear that Annette Dionne has died at age 91. She was the last surviving member of the Dionne quintuplets.
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Daughter to Lord Stanley of hockey silverware repute, the Hon. Isobel Stanley was a pioneer of the women’s game. Was she also the first to be documented as joining the injury list with an upper body injury?
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breaking news: lady isobel stanley hits the ice, 1892
She’s an icon of the game, a pioneer of women’s hockey, a trailblazer on skates whose name, like her famous father’s, has become synonymous with puck-pursuing excellence. The difference between Lor…
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December 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Daughter to Lord Stanley of hockey silverware repute, the Hon. Isobel Stanley was a pioneer of the women’s game. Was she also the first to be documented as joining the injury list with an upper body injury?
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Canada’s sixth Governor-General is remembered for donating his iconic hockey trophy, but in Ottawa in the winter of 1890, Lord Stanley of Preston was scandalizing the continent for allowing hockey to disturb the sanctity of the capital’s Sunday.
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righteous on the rideau: ottawa shocked, lord stanley denounced
Nothing against the Vegas Golden Knights or Washington’s own Capitals, who’ll meet tonight to decide who gets to claim the Stanley Cup and brandish it aloft. If we’re a little quiet up here in Cana…
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December 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Canada’s sixth Governor-General is remembered for donating his iconic hockey trophy, but in Ottawa in the winter of 1890, Lord Stanley of Preston was scandalizing the continent for allowing hockey to disturb the sanctity of the capital’s Sunday.
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A happy Harold Ballard 1987-88 Christmas, to all (any?) who celebrate.
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and so this is christmas
Happy holidays from the Toronto Maple Leafs of Christmas past, and their seasonally spirited owner, Harold Ballard. What else, really, can you say, faced with this image from the team’s 1987-88 Chr…
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December 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
A happy Harold Ballard 1987-88 Christmas, to all (any?) who celebrate.
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Happy Toronto's Grenadier Pond, circa 1916.
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oh what fun
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December 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Happy Toronto's Grenadier Pond, circa 1916.
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