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Hockey won’t hold still for a portrait. To gain a glimpse inside, you join it in progress…just as players do. Jumping onto the ice for their shifts as the game swirls around them. On that ice the action moves at high speeds. The punishment doled out can be staggering. And the very best . . . → Read More: Poetics on Hockey It’s Christmas Eve in Australia as I write this and I’m sitting in the air-conditioned bubble that is my parent’s house sipping champagne in front of the Christmas tree. There’s no snow blanketing the ground outside, in fact the La Nina has left us with over a month of near constant rain and turned . . . → Read More: Christmas Thank You’s “To play hockey you shouldn’t have to go through what I went through. I was just looking to have friendship and play the game I love.” Yesterday the story of Kayla Watkins was brought to my attention via both Puck Daddy, Buzzing the Net and the much adored Sarah Spain. Originally covered in . . . → Read More: How to Ruin the Game 101 “I’d rather see a guy fight and lose than turn his cheek and not fight of all and I think a lot of the players are like that. You pretty well realise that you have to fight, otherwise the guys look down at you.” Tie Domi “. . . . . . → Read More: On Red Ice : A Reflection on a Semester of Sport Sociology This post is brought to you by a high school assignment (i was 14/15 at the time) for musical class that required me to write a musical. So here is what I wrote! A Hockey High School Musical! Detroit, USA. Allie, a street-wise hockey player who grew up in Toronto moves back to Detroit . . . → Read More: Hockey: My High School Musical This semester, I have the pleasure of having one subject selection where I can take essentially any subject I want in the entirety of the university, to fulfill my non-law elective requirements. Now requiring students to take 2 non-law subjects (out of the total 32 required for a straight law program) seems rather ridiculous . . . → Read More: Sport has no benefit : Sociology of Sport Yes. This is one of those blogs that has almost as many OMG I’ve vanished for __ this many months on ends posts as it has actual posts. Why? Because I’m one of those people that seems to spend more time living life than writing about it. Not saying, if you write about it, . . . → Read More: Where I’ve been since May…. It seems strange, that I haven’t posted here in Months, caught up in the flurry of returning from the States, tumbling back into School and Hockey. It seems in stark contrast that my last post was in memorial of the amazingness that was Brendan Burke and here is my application essay to the internship . . . → Read More: Hockey Life (or something like it) – Essay for the Brendan Burke Internship Stereotypically men deal with things by ignoring about it and women deal with things by talking about it. In this day and age, it seems like both genders deal by tweeting about it. That’s how I learnt today in a tweet by @JayOnrait that Brian Burke’s son Brendan had passed. It is always sad . . . → Read More: In Remembrance of What Was and What Will Continue I have watched the Cormier video multiple times, pausing and going back just before Tam starts to go into convulsions. I have already seen twice in my life a player go into seizures before me on the ice, one an epileptic team mate, the other the result of a fight gone wrong and both . . . → Read More: Quebec v. Cormier: The Law v. The League |
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