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Prospect Faceoff: World Under 17’s comes to a conclusion, European talents go head-to-head in the OHL, plus more from junior/college hockey The World Under-17 Hockey Challenge pits two countrymen against each other as the tournament comes to a conclusion this week. There is also a pair of International talents going one-on-one for the first time in their careers in the OHL, while another strong European is leading the way for his squad against one of the QMJHL’s most feared forwards. In the WHL

In Praise of Bill Peters Now firmly into his third season as a head coach in the NHL, Bill Peters, coach of the Carolina Hurricanes, has a lot of work in front of him to get this team into post-season contention. Through his first two years with the organization, Peters is still yet to participate in the playoffs. In fact, it has been seven years since Carolina last saw the playoffs. Peters ' current lack of post-season success shouldn 't be an immediate point for concern, as he came into the team

The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). They have won four Stanley Cup Championships and fourteen division titles since their founding in 1926. Since 1994, the Blackhawks have played their home games at the United Center afterhaving spent 65 years playing at Chicago Stadium.Currently, they are the defending Stanley Cup champions,having

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How Hockey Began Hockey began in Montreal in the 1800’s. It began with a stick a rock and a frozen pond, the game started spreading around like wildfire, things were being added and changed with every group of people trying to create there own version of hockey but in the 1850’s the first games of ice hockey were played, and in the 1870's, the first set of ice hockey rules were written by a group of students at McGill University in Montreal. These rules set up the use of a puck replacing a ball

For many decades, writers and authors have accused the American influence on Canada as one of the reasons why Canada is losing its heritage, with one major aspect being the game of hockey. The institutionalization of American Culture began to take root in Canada during the late 1920’s and 1930s as technological advances, specifically the invention of the radio, allowed Canadians to enjoy American entertainment. American stations were much more reliable than Canadian ones, causing American sporting

interest in a sport comes more fans in new places. In an effort to grow their franchise, the NHL has been known to add expansion teams. The league started in 1942 with just six teams known as “The Original Six” and has expanded to 30 teams since then with the last teams being added in 2000 (Various). Sixteen years after the last expansion teams were added, the league is looking to add more. There are four proposed cities for expansion teams: Las Vegas, Seattle, Quebec City, and a second team in Toronto

The National Hockey League, with its headquarters in New York City the NHL is considered to be the best professional ice-hockey league in the world. The NHL was established in 1917 with a handful of teams located in the greater Montreal and Toronto areas, the league played it’s first game on December 19th 1917. Teams and franchise came and left the NHL over the next few short years due to funding issues, lack of interest, and for the Montreal Wanderers it was the fact that they had nowhere to play

Violence in ice hockey has been an identifying staple in the sport since “the first hockey leagues formed in the mid-1880’s,” (Ice Hockey Origins, Growth and Changes in the Game). Since the modern era of hockey, and the creation of the Stanley Cup, hockey has been viewed as one of the most violent sports in western civilization. Clarence Campbell, former NHL President has even said that “[w]ithout violence, there would be no such thing as hockey,” (Coakley). To an extent hockey is unmatched in illegal

w 9B00M002 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE ENTERPRISES CANADA: A RETAIL PROPOSAL Elizabeth Gray prepared this case under the supervision of Elizabeth M.A. Grasby solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Ivey Management Services prohibits any form of reproduction, storage or transmittal