What the NHL can learn from the NBA about its player empowerment movement
Let's explore what hockey fans can expect as star players drive player movement more than ever.
Make Believe Mailer #176: Five 2026 Bandcamp Favorites I Have Not Written About Yet
The simple hook for this blog post — it’s Bandcamp Friday! I love pointing towards releases available on this platform, so much so I do it monthly over at scrmbl even…
What Else Could It Mean? A Book Surveys the Playful, Iconoclastic Works of James Wines
It’s not uncommon for artists and architects to espouse a desire for breaking conventions and pushing boundaries, but so few have embodied such a mandate as James Wines. An unparalleled…
NHL Power Rankings: A Top 10 shuffle — plus, Nikita Kucherov’s impact on each team
What's the power of adding a top-five player in hockey? Kucherov alone has the power to move a team up several tiers.
First look at generic jerseys as Canada takes the ice at women’s worlds
Canada’s women’s hockey team took the ice Friday at women's worlds in generic jerseys that did not feature its signature maple leaf.
Kitty 0.50 Picks Up Where You Left Off After a System Restart
kitty is a GPLv3-licensed, GPU-based terminal emulator for Linux and macOS that uses OpenGL for rendering and is written in C, Python, and Go. It can organize work into tabs…
What if Hockey Hall of Fame inductees had to go in representing a single NHL team?
What would the Hockey Hall of Fame look like if it decided to copy the Baseball Hall of Fame and assign each player to a specific team?
Nikita Kucherov wants a big payday. The Lightning would be smart to move on from him
Thinking the Lightning mishandled the situation with Kucherov misses key context of an uncertain new landscape for league-wide negotiations.
Nearing Hall of Fame induction, Patrice Bergeron still binds the Boston Bruins
Three years after his retirement, the standout center is still making an impact on key parts of the only franchise for which he ever played.
Connor McDavid fuming after ‘dangerous’ Drew Helleson hit: ‘I’ve got feelings and emotions too’
McDavid made it known in his immediate exchange and in his candid postgame comments that he took umbrage at Helleson's actions.