Imagine a National Hockey League that started each postseason run with a play-in series for teams on the bubble. Two squads from each conference would duke it out for the right to advance to the NHL’s second season and take their best shot at bringing home a Stanley Cup. It might be a one-game, winner-take-all showdown, or a three-game mini series.
If there were an archetype of the kind of fan the National Hockey League would want to have, he might look something like Sebastien Fortin.
Of all the ways for a hockey player to suffer a season-ending injury, it’s pretty clear tying skates was one Ottawa Senators defenceman Jared Cowen didn’t see coming.
The 10-year-olds on the Gloucester Rangers major atom A team figured something was up. After all, it was curious that they were being asked to bring their game sweaters to an ordinary practice. What’s up with that? Team picture? Maybe.
If you ask Jakob Silfverberg how he’s adjusting to hockey in North America, he’ll tell you he’s having a terrible time.
Stand on Little Lake, a slap shot away from Great Bear Lake, and you can’t help but think about infamous Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. Or, more specifically, about what Franklin might have thought of a simple game evolving into such a complicated, nasty mess.
It ended Thursday morning the way it began last Saturday, in the airport of a snow-covered capital of a northern Canadian territory, the temperature outside hovering around the -20 C mark.