The NHL Board of Governors is set to meet in early December in Boca Raton, Florida to discuss the possibility of expansion, and potentially placing a team in Quebec City and/or Las Vegas. I’ve noticed that a lot of the press coverage of the expansion debate has been centred around the significant expansion fees, which will cost potential expansion teams hundreds of millions of dollars, and very little has been reported about how expansion will affect the game itself, or the p

For many young hockey players the decision on whether they will play in the Canadian Hockey League (CHL), the banner league of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), Western Hockey League (WHL), or, alternatively, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). is being made at a younger and younger age. This important decision is typically made at the family level and it is important that each family is made aware that this decis

As the GTHL season winds down, changes for the 2015-16 season have been voted upon and decided. Within these changes is the ban on body checking from single A hockey. While seemingly non-controversial, the effects of this decision have a greater impact below the surface, both as a trickle-down effect and from the bottom-up. Body checking is quickly being taken out of minor hockey. The game changes when hits aren’t allowed to be thrown. The number of penalties in a game could