Here is a great example of an unexpected factoid--something you would normally not even think to wonder about--making a cool news item, from the NYT: According to sales figures from stick ...

Whether or not you're a big hockey fan, you probably know what went down during the women's gold-medal match at the 2018 Winter Olympics — you know, the one where the US women's hockey team won their ...

I started to suspect that my son Philippe would grow passionate about hockey when he began to play at the age of seven. Like other youngsters that age, he collected and traded hockey cards, played ...

As any hockey fan knows, the game doesn’t end on the ice. Statistics, details, weird stories, and generally obscure trivia constitute a large part of any fan’s arsenal. Knowing which NHL player has ...

Hockey is following the lead of baseball and basketball, the forerunners in the expansion of advanced statistics in sports. Michael Schuckers, a statistics professor at St. Lawrence University, and ...

In last week’s edition of Know Your Sport, we looked at the sport of ice hockey in general. This week, we will look at various rules and interesting facts about this fascinating sport. The ice hockey ...

T.J. Oshie became part of U.S. Olympic lore Saturday when he took advantage of international rules and scored on 4-of-6 shootout attempts, including the game winner, in a 3-2 victory over Russia.

Nothing heats up hockey fans like an argument about dropping the gloves—a tradition with a long, bloody, and bizarre history. An average of 1.17 violent altercations per game erupted during the record ...

Colorado Avalanche superfan Grant Beery, of Denver, atop a Zamboni. Adrian Dater remembers the day in 1995 when the news broke. Colorado was getting a professional hockey team. The Quebec Nordiques ...

The tenth junior hockey World Cup got underway on the 6th of December at New Delhi’s Major Dhyanchand national stadium. This is the first time that India is hosting the quadrennial event. Malaysia is ...

Interesting facts have come to light in a soon-to-be-released Punjabi biography of hockey legend Balbir Singh Sr with the writer claiming to have traced the nonagenarian's lineage to famous Sikh ...