All Entries Tagged With: "Canada"
World Hockey Summit Day 4: AM session, audio from Wickenheiser, Ruggiero
Under clouds of concern for the viability of international women’s hockey due to the huge competitive disparity between North America and the rest of the world, Canadian star and featured speaker Hayley Wickenheiser described the frustrating challenges in growing women’s hockey outside North America while American star and panellist Angela Ruggiero was more hopeful about the future [...]
World Hockey Summit Day 3: AM session, audio from Jamie Langenbrunner
Inside: coverage of events during the morning session of Day 3 of the World Hockey Summit at the Sheraton Centre in downtown Toronto. All the speakers and panellists were in agreement that after Vancouver 2010, the NHL should continue sending its players to the Olympics. Ten minutes of audio with New Jersey Devil Jamie Langenbrunner also featured.
World Hockey Summit Day 2: PM session, audio from USA Hockey’s Jim Johansson
Day 2 of the World Hockey Summit has finished. IIHF President Rene Fasel reiterated his desire to see NHL players at the 2014 Winter Olympics but indicated he would strongly resist any potential NHL efforts to expand into Europe. Slavomir Lener of the Czech Republic showed some grim statistics on the drain of many young, not-ready European players to the CHL. Audio clip of interview by this writer with Jim Johansson of USA Hockey also inside.
World Hockey Summit Day 2: AM session, audio from Shanahan, Dr. Mark Aubry
The World Hockey Summit Day 2 morning session has concluded. A summary of the discussion on Player Skill Development and audio clips from Dr. Mark Aubry and Brendan Shanahan.
World Hockey Summit comes to Toronto August 23-26
The city of Toronto will welcome the world to a comprehensive four-day event starting tomorrow night that promises to generate attention, new ideas and debate on how to improve hockey at all levels and in every hockey-playing nation. The Molson Canadian World Hockey Summit will take place from Monday, August 23, 2010 until Thursday, August 26, 2010 at various [...]
Ivan Hlinka: Reflections on an all-time great in Czech hockey
This past Saturday, the Canadian under-18 men’s hockey team won their third consecutive gold at the Memorial of Ivan Hlinka in the Czech Republic and Slovakia by defeating the U.S. 1-0. The Memorial of Ivan Hlinka is an annual summer tournament for national under-18 squads from the top eight hockey nations in the world (not to be confused [...]
Warming Up for the World Jrs with Kyle Clifford
Kyle Clifford of the OHL’s Barrie Colts (and a top prospect of the LA Kings) checks in with The Mayor to share some stories from his expereince at last weekend’s Team Canada evaluation camp, including his thoughts on several other players in the mix.
Canada Wants A Stanley Cup! (but when will they get it?)
The Stanley Cup hasn’t graced Canadian soil in 17 years, when will that drought end and will dollar-parity propel the NHL to increase the number of teams in Canada and their odds of bringing the Cup back North of 60?
Richards and Pronger return to Philly golden
It was one of, if not, the greatest hockey game ever played. The ultimate rematch between the ultimate hockey power Canada and the cinderella story United States of America. The game was what every hockey fan could ever dream about. Overtime to decide the Gold medal. Sudden death to decide which country takes control of [...]
IDIOTS DELIGHT: Russian Paper Accuses Canadians of Doping
If you want to see the end of journalism…start here. All it takes is a English failed musician who lives and writes for the Russian rag Pravda. He has a long history of anti-American and anti-Israel invective. He sits on the Pravda editorial board and launches pro-Russian propaganda whose main thrust is to disparage what [...]
E pluribus, Crosby
Sidney Crosby was born and bred for this moment. In a country that elevates its sublimely talented hockey superstars to iconic status, it was only appropriate that out of the many star players populating Team Canada’s roster, the wunderkind from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia would emerge as the one who seized the moment that asked for a hero. Out [...]
Going for Gold
As authors with considerable audiences, we try to keep ourselves from showing our allegiances. Whatever teams we may cheer for, and whatever teams we may cheer against, we attempt to keep our biases to a bare minimum. Everyone who reads my articles knows that I’m a fan of the Montreal Canadiens. They know that, as [...]
Canada and U.S. to go for gold on Sunday afternoon
Canada and the United States have both booked their tickets, in very different ways, to the gold medal game on Sunday (3.15 pm EST / 12.15 pm PST) setting up an all North American Olympic men’s hockey final and a rematch of the 2002 Salt Lake City gold medal game won by Canada. The Americans advanced by [...]
Spotlight on Jaroslav Halak
As a fan of the Montreal Canadiens, I feel compelled to cheer for any Habs that were lucky enough to be selected by their countries of origin to compete at the Vancouver Games. Following this group of players, both for this website and as a mega-fan, you can’t help but feel a bond with each [...]
Mike Milbury’s Eurotrash Disco: Comments Override Canada’s Huge Win
“I was shocked that it was this one-sided. And I was really disappointed that these guys came with their euro-trash game. It was just. No heart, no guts, no nothing there to back it up. I mean Alex Ovechkin was an average player tonight. I know they’re going to bounce back, but to be that [...]
O Happy Day! Canada advances to semifinals, eliminates Russia
A flood of different emotions coursed through hockey fans coast to coast this morning, awaiting the Canada – Russia showdown in the quarterfinals of the 2010 Olympic men’s hockey tournament. Anticipation, hope, hatred and love, all mixing, simmering and percolating in all of us, anxious for the start of one of the most longed-for hockey games [...]
Qualifications in the Books; Great Day of Quarter-Finals Ahead
Going into yesterday’s set of games in Vancouver, not many people expected Norway, Belarus, Germany or Latvia to beat their opponents and advance to the quarterfinal round of the tournament. Canada, Switzerland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are simply way too good for those other four growing hockey nations. Surely enough, we sit here on [...]
Canada easily beats Germany to set up quarterfinal match with Russia
Team Canada did what it had to do to stay alive at the men’s Olympic hockey tournament, defeating Germany 8-2 in one of the four qualification playoff games. Canada will now face Russia in the quarterfinals tomorrow evening at 7:30 pm EST / 4:30 pm PST, a matchup that over 19,000 partisan fans at Canada [...]
Should Canada just start planning for Russia? Nein, mein herr!
Warm up the hype machine; post up yet another Crosby – Ovechkin head-to-head graphic; write down your favourite “clash of the hockey superpowers”-type catch-phrase. Canada and Russia will meet Wednesday night in the quarterfinals of the 2010 Winter Olympics men’s hockey tournament in Vancouver. Oh wait. There’s a game scheduled tonight. It’s easy to overlook [...]
US Hockey Win Over Canada No Miracle, Just Hard Work & Clutch Goaltending
Some who do not have much hockey acumen, like some of the MSNBC announcers…where last night’s game was buried as NBC went with pairs figure skating coveting the female audience over responsible sports coverage…will paint the US win over Canada as some David versus Goliath miracle win from some sort of mismatch. Nothing would be [...]
