Vancouver Canucks head coach Bruce Boudreau arrives for a news conference ahead of the NHL hockey team’s training camp in Vancouver on Sept. 21. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press – image credit) After weeks of speculation, the struggling Vancouver Canucks have fired head coach Bruce Boudreau. The Canucks announced the move […]
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Former Red Wing Ted Nolan among 8 Indigenous NHL players featured in new card deck
Ted Nolan, of Garden River First Nation in northern Ontario, is featured in his first NHL hockey card, years after retiring from the league. (Upper Deck – image credit) Retired professional hockey player and coach Ted Nolan is one of eight former Indigenous NHL players to be featured in a […]
From Antigonish to Kazakhstan — the nomadic hockey life of Alex Grant
Antigonish’s Alex Grant recently scored four goals in a game for his KHL team, which is based in Kazakhstan. (Barys Astana – image credit) 8,359 kilometres. That’s the distance from Alex Grant’s hometown of Antigonish, N.S., to Astana, Kazakhstan. That’s where Grant is playing hockey this winter, his 15th year […]
How this goalie stops the puck in a hockey series for the legally blind
Goaltender Joey Cabral, of Toronto, says teams in the Carnegie Cup Elite Blind Hockey Series use a special puck. He plays for a team called the Mercurys. (CBC – image credit) Most goalies struggle to see the puck as it’s fired at them through a maze of sticks, skates and battling […]
Live streams on desktop & app
(NHL/CBC – image credit) Want to watch a free live stream of Hockey Day in Canada and Hockey Night in Canada games? CBC will live stream the games all digital platforms, meaning more Canadians will be able to access the games. This week, the Tampa Bay Lightning visit the Calgary Flames at 2 p.m. ET, while the Toronto Maple Leafs […]