The Gift of Games that Matter

By WayToGoPaul | Mar 31st 2019 | 4 min read |

What do you want? What are you here for? What draws you in, compels you to risk real emotion sitting in the stands or before the screen, hands over yo...

Max Domi has the skill set to play centre for the Montreal Canadiens

By David St-Louis | Sep 13th 2018 | 10 min read |

Welcome to this year’s edition of Can This Winger Play Centre? When he was traded to Montreal, as is tradition, management were immediately asked ab...

Charline Labonté’s unconventional path to greatness

By Jared Book | Sep 29th 2017 | 17 min read |

As Charline Labonté watched the seconds tick down from her crease at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa during the Clarkson Cup Final, she was alread...

Mikhail Sergachev and the art of defending without playing defence

By Mitch Brown | Dec 24th 2016 | 14 min read |

Traditionally, the perceived value of defence in hockey is a skill mostly determined in the defensive zone. This places a premium on defensive zone sk...

How Finland has emerged as a hockey superpower

By Patrik Bexell | Jun 26th 2016 | 13 min read |

Finland’s national men’s hockey team won its first World Championship with the ‘golden generation,’ headed by Saku Koivu centring Jere Lehtine...

The leagues of Europe and their relative competitiveness

By Patrik Bexell | Sep 27th 2015 | 16 min read |

This is an interesting subject, and I have bothered ice hockey federations, clubs, friends and colleagues since I had “that” discussion, a...

Max Pacioretty & Brendan Gallagher are even more special than you think

By Andrew Berkshire | May 21st 2015 | 6 min read |

By now, everyone knows that Max Pacioretty and Brendan Gallagher are really good players. Pacioretty has scored 86 goals in the last two years, while ...

The case for P.K. Subban to win the Norris Trophy

By Andrew Berkshire | Apr 8th 2015 | 8 min read |

Bob McKenzie has taken his annual coach’s poll to determine who should win the NHL’s most prestigious trophies, and the results are intere...

Brendan Gallagher: the Habs’ next 30-goal scorer?

By Jack Han | Apr 6th 2015 | 9 min read |

I was recently asked by an experienced coach to explain the differences between statistics and analytics. It was a fair question to ask from his point...

If you don't have a problem with what Morgan Rielly said, then I have a problem with you.

By Robyn Flynn | Feb 20th 2015 | 5 min read |

The Toronto Maple Leafs sit second-to-last in the Atlantic division, with only the lowly Buffalo Sabres in their rear view mirror. They’re 1-7-2...