Stephen S
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The history of hockeyness, and vice-versa.
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Occasional Newfoundland content + Charles Portis, Italo Calvino, Geoff Dyer, Mavis Gallant, John Jeremiah Sullivan, & Sergei Dovlatov alerts.
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France and Canada didn't meet at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, but the hosts did take on the US and Britain. They lost those games, but finished the tournament with a win over Belgium.
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winter’s first olympics, 1924: le coq glacé
Hosts France played in Group B in Chamonix in 1924 at the Olympic hockey tournament, matched with the United States, Belgium, and Great Britain. In 1920 at Antwerp, the quirksome schedule had seen …
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February 15, 2026 at 4:11 PM
France and Canada didn't meet at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, but the hosts did take on the US and Britain. They lost those games, but finished the tournament with a win over Belgium.
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It was 99 years ago that, mid-NHL-season, the Toronto St. Patricks transformed into the Maple Leafs. Conn Smythe usually gets the credit for the name change, though it actually belongs to Charlie Querrie.
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maple leaf origins: what’s in a name (and when)
Toronto’s old NHL team was lying low on this date in 1927, dead last in the ten-team league, so maybe the time was the right one for renewal. And so it was: 99 years ago yesterday, mid-season, the …
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February 15, 2026 at 9:51 PM
It was 99 years ago that, mid-NHL-season, the Toronto St. Patricks transformed into the Maple Leafs. Conn Smythe usually gets the credit for the name change, though it actually belongs to Charlie Querrie.
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Stadium series, 1933. French women's hockey powerhouse DAB takes on Flèches Noires in Paris.
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parc des princesses
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February 16, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Stadium series, 1933. French women's hockey powerhouse DAB takes on Flèches Noires in Paris.
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It was 99 years ago that, mid-NHL-season, the Toronto St. Patricks transformed into the Maple Leafs. Conn Smythe usually gets the credit for the name change, though it actually belongs to Charlie Querrie.
wp.me/p1hzck-7kp
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maple leaf origins: what’s in a name (and when)
Toronto’s old NHL team was lying low on this date in 1927, dead last in the ten-team league, so maybe the time was the right one for renewal. And so it was: 99 years ago yesterday, mid-season, the …
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February 15, 2026 at 9:51 PM
It was 99 years ago that, mid-NHL-season, the Toronto St. Patricks transformed into the Maple Leafs. Conn Smythe usually gets the credit for the name change, though it actually belongs to Charlie Querrie.
wp.me/p1hzck-7kp
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Canada beats France 10-2 at the Olympics. From 1899, one of the oldest hockey books weighs in on the question of whether it's okay to run up the score.
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the right way to rout: do not purposely avoid scoring against a team that has already lost
While much of Canada slept Sunday morning, the team battling in our name at this year’s IIHF World Championships in Denmark swept past South Korea by a score of 10-0. Maybe you woke up to watch the…
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February 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Canada beats France 10-2 at the Olympics. From 1899, one of the oldest hockey books weighs in on the question of whether it's okay to run up the score.
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Alfred de Rauch captained the first three editions of France's Olympic hockey teams, from 1920 through 1928.
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monsieur de rauch
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February 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Alfred de Rauch captained the first three editions of France's Olympic hockey teams, from 1920 through 1928.
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France and Canada didn't meet at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, but the hosts did take on the US and Britain. They lost those games, but finished the tournament with a win over Belgium.
puckstruck.com/2024/01/31/w...
puckstruck.com/2024/01/31/w...
winter’s first olympics, 1924: le coq glacé
Hosts France played in Group B in Chamonix in 1924 at the Olympic hockey tournament, matched with the United States, Belgium, and Great Britain. In 1920 at Antwerp, the quirksome schedule had seen …
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February 15, 2026 at 4:11 PM
France and Canada didn't meet at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, but the hosts did take on the US and Britain. They lost those games, but finished the tournament with a win over Belgium.
puckstruck.com/2024/01/31/w...
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Switzerland v USA at the 1936 Olympics:
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winterspiele 1936: swiss miss
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February 14, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Switzerland v USA at the 1936 Olympics:
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Switzerland v USA at the 1936 Olympics:
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winterspiele 1936: swiss miss
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February 14, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Switzerland v USA at the 1936 Olympics:
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Canada v Switzerland at the 1928 Olympics.
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olympics, 1928: swiss dismissed
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February 13, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Canada v Switzerland at the 1928 Olympics.
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There was no Olympic miracle on ice in Lake Placid in 1932, when Canada beat the US to win gold on a Saturday of this date, 94 years ago.
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gold for canada, 1932: apart from these eccentricities, the game more or less made sense
There was no miracle on the ice at Lake Placid on this date in 1932, just the same old same-old: Canada won Olympic gold. But it was close. For the first time in four Olympic hockey tournaments spa…
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February 13, 2026 at 2:14 PM
There was no Olympic miracle on ice in Lake Placid in 1932, when Canada beat the US to win gold on a Saturday of this date, 94 years ago.
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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As Canada's 2026 men's team prepares to go for hockey gold ... I talked to a couple of 90something members of the 1956 Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, who battled 70 years ago in Cortina for world hockey supremacy.
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giochi olimpici invernali, 1956: to cortina, with jack mckenzie
It was on the second day of the Italian Olympics that Jack McKenzie got the job offer that would have changed his life, if he’d taken it. It was one that he could — as it turned out — refuse. And d…
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February 9, 2026 at 4:52 PM
As Canada's 2026 men's team prepares to go for hockey gold ... I talked to a couple of 90something members of the 1956 Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, who battled 70 years ago in Cortina for world hockey supremacy.
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70 years ago, ahead of another Olympic hockey tournament in Italy, Canada's Post Office launched a new stamp.
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giochi olimpici invernali, 1956: make it stick
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February 12, 2026 at 3:25 PM
70 years ago, ahead of another Olympic hockey tournament in Italy, Canada's Post Office launched a new stamp.
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Beating a path to the puck. puckstruck.com/2024/11/26/b...
beating a path to the puck
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February 12, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Beating a path to the puck. puckstruck.com/2024/11/26/b...
This week in Ottawa in 1892, Isobel Stanley suffered the first recorded upper-body injury in women's hockey.
Her famous father? Canada's GG Lord Stanley, donor of hockey's most famous trophy. cc: @nicolehaase.bsky.social @mingemi.bsky.social
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Her famous father? Canada's GG Lord Stanley, donor of hockey's most famous trophy. cc: @nicolehaase.bsky.social @mingemi.bsky.social
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breaking news: lady isobel stanley hits the ice, 1892
She’s an icon of the game, a pioneer of women’s hockey, a trailblazer on skates whose name, like her famous father’s, has become synonymous with puck-pursuing excellence. The difference between Lor…
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February 11, 2026 at 3:11 PM
This week in Ottawa in 1892, Isobel Stanley suffered the first recorded upper-body injury in women's hockey.
Her famous father? Canada's GG Lord Stanley, donor of hockey's most famous trophy. cc: @nicolehaase.bsky.social @mingemi.bsky.social
@jaredbook.bsky.social
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Her famous father? Canada's GG Lord Stanley, donor of hockey's most famous trophy. cc: @nicolehaase.bsky.social @mingemi.bsky.social
@jaredbook.bsky.social
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This week in 1892, Isobel Stanley suffered the first recorded upper-body injury in women's hockey.
Her famous father? GG Lord Stanley, donor of hockey's most famous trophy. cc: @haileysalvian.bsky.social
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Her famous father? GG Lord Stanley, donor of hockey's most famous trophy. cc: @haileysalvian.bsky.social
@brucearthur.bsky.social
@iankennedyck.bsky.social
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breaking news: lady isobel stanley hits the ice, 1892
She’s an icon of the game, a pioneer of women’s hockey, a trailblazer on skates whose name, like her famous father’s, has become synonymous with puck-pursuing excellence. The difference between Lor…
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February 11, 2026 at 3:08 PM
This week in 1892, Isobel Stanley suffered the first recorded upper-body injury in women's hockey.
Her famous father? GG Lord Stanley, donor of hockey's most famous trophy. cc: @haileysalvian.bsky.social
@brucearthur.bsky.social
@iankennedyck.bsky.social
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Her famous father? GG Lord Stanley, donor of hockey's most famous trophy. cc: @haileysalvian.bsky.social
@brucearthur.bsky.social
@iankennedyck.bsky.social
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Despite what you're seeing here, Canada and the US did not play with the lid of a teapot at the 1932 Olympics instead of a puck.
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canada battles the usa, 1932: shoot! yelled every canadian in the place who could speak
The third time that Canada and the United States met in Olympic hockey came in 1932, and the fourth, too. When first we saw the rivalry, Canada prevailed 2-0 in Antwerp, in Belgium . The countries …
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February 10, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Despite what you're seeing here, Canada and the US did not play with the lid of a teapot at the 1932 Olympics instead of a puck.
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This is terrific.
As Canada's 2026 men's team prepares to go for hockey gold ... I talked to a couple of 90something members of the 1956 Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, who battled 70 years ago in Cortina for world hockey supremacy.
wp.me/p1hzck-7ie
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giochi olimpici invernali, 1956: to cortina, with jack mckenzie
It was on the second day of the Italian Olympics that Jack McKenzie got the job offer that would have changed his life, if he’d taken it. It was one that he could — as it turned out — refuse. And d…
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February 10, 2026 at 6:59 AM
This is terrific.
As Canada's 2026 men's team prepares to go for hockey gold ... I talked to a couple of 90something members of the 1956 Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, who battled 70 years ago in Cortina for world hockey supremacy.
wp.me/p1hzck-7ie
wp.me/p1hzck-7ie
giochi olimpici invernali, 1956: to cortina, with jack mckenzie
It was on the second day of the Italian Olympics that Jack McKenzie got the job offer that would have changed his life, if he’d taken it. It was one that he could — as it turned out — refuse. And d…
wp.me
February 9, 2026 at 4:52 PM
As Canada's 2026 men's team prepares to go for hockey gold ... I talked to a couple of 90something members of the 1956 Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, who battled 70 years ago in Cortina for world hockey supremacy.
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This beautiful print - from the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada collection - turns 108 this month.
William Rider-Rider, Canadian buying a hat at a second-hand store near Lens, February 1918, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Museum & Archives 2018.413.2504.
William Rider-Rider, Canadian buying a hat at a second-hand store near Lens, February 1918, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Museum & Archives 2018.413.2504.
February 8, 2026 at 3:53 PM
This beautiful print - from the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada collection - turns 108 this month.
William Rider-Rider, Canadian buying a hat at a second-hand store near Lens, February 1918, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Museum & Archives 2018.413.2504.
William Rider-Rider, Canadian buying a hat at a second-hand store near Lens, February 1918, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Museum & Archives 2018.413.2504.
Scraping the Olympic ice, 1936.
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faster, icier, not so snowy: scraping the olympic ice, 1936
Frank Zamboni didn’t get around to inventing his eponymous ice resurfacer until 1949. What that meant for the 1936 Winter Olympics was that, knowing the rink at Garmisch-Partenkirchen’s Eis-Stadion…
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February 8, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Scraping the Olympic ice, 1936.
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The Leafs are celebrating Darryl Sittler's 10-point game tonight at Scotiabank Arena. I was at the game in 1976 as a 9-year-old, with my dad. I wrote about that on an earlier anniversary.
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big night
I remember trumpets. Trumpets and cornets, trombones, a sousaphone, maybe a, I don’t know, euphonium — a ruckus realized by a hidden horn section sounding the charge while falling downstairs, short…
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January 27, 2026 at 10:57 PM
The Leafs are celebrating Darryl Sittler's 10-point game tonight at Scotiabank Arena. I was at the game in 1976 as a 9-year-old, with my dad. I wrote about that on an earlier anniversary.
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Heading to another Italian Olympics, this one in 1956, Canada's hopeful hockey team started their journey in Kitchener-Waterloo.
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giochi olimpici invernali, 1956: going dutch
They were teachers and salesmen, college students, assistant branch managers at the finance company, carpenters, lithographers, and bricklayers. They were really only part-time hockey players, exce…
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February 6, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Heading to another Italian Olympics, this one in 1956, Canada's hopeful hockey team started their journey in Kitchener-Waterloo.
puckstruck.com/2026/02/05/g...
puckstruck.com/2026/02/05/g...
Heading to another Italian Olympics, this one in 1956, Canada's hopeful hockey team started their journey in Kitchener-Waterloo.
puckstruck.com/2026/02/05/g...
puckstruck.com/2026/02/05/g...
giochi olimpici invernali, 1956: going dutch
They were teachers and salesmen, college students, assistant branch managers at the finance company, carpenters, lithographers, and bricklayers. They were really only part-time hockey players, exce…
puckstruck.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Heading to another Italian Olympics, this one in 1956, Canada's hopeful hockey team started their journey in Kitchener-Waterloo.
puckstruck.com/2026/02/05/g...
puckstruck.com/2026/02/05/g...