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Sports

I Was the First Transgender Player in Professional Hockey. Then I Had to Walk Away

May 24, 2025May 24, 2025 - by Harrison Browne

The sports world is the newest battleground for true equality

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Canada's Brandon Hagel fights with United States' Matthew Tkachuk during the 4 Nations Face-Off tournament in Montreal.
Sports

First, the Tariffs. Then, the Threats. Then, the Hockey Gloves Came Off

February 21, 2025April 9, 2025 - by Harley Rustad

The game that became a proxy war for Canadian sovereignty

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Photo illustration of the poet Matt Robinson
November 2021 / Poetry

The Pickup Skater

October 14, 2021 - by Matt Robinson

His passes—those on-ice / em dashes—as silky or fit-to-be-tied as jaunty cravats

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Cartoon panel where two children pack snow in the shape of the Stanley Cup, but by morning, the sculpture has melted.
November 2021

Ask a Hockey Expert: Will a Canadian Team Ever Win the Stanley Cup Again?

October 12, 2021January 2, 2022 - by William Foster

A sports management researcher explains what it would take to end the nearly three-decade dry spell

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Portrait of George Armstrong in a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey against a blue background.
July/August 2021 / Memoir

The Paradox of Being a Leafs Fan

June 9, 2021October 10, 2024 - by Waubgeshig Rice

Generations of Indigenous fans have followed the Toronto Maple Leafs through close calls and decades of despair. Ultimately, it’s the hope that connects us

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Illustration of three pairs of hockey players in full gear, embracing one another and smiling.
Sports

Will There Ever Be an Openly Queer NHL Player?

January 12, 2021March 25, 2021 - by Alex Manley

In hockey culture, male aggression is valorized while any weakness, real or perceived, is weaponized

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Illustration by Glenn Harvey
March 2019 / Sports

How Analytics Will Help Win the Next Stanley Cup

January 23, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Nathaniel Basen

A new generation of data nerds is redefining what makes a great hockey player

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Photograph of the Maple Leafs in 1951
Sports

Why Leafs Fans Will Never Stop Hoping for Hockey Greatness

April 18, 2018March 14, 2020 - by Nathaniel Basen

As the team makes its bid for the Stanley Cup, it will also have to defeat its history

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Illustration of a Women's Hockey Team on the Ice
Sports

Women’s Sports Aren’t About Bake Sales and Role Models

March 25, 2018March 9, 2021 - by Kate Reddy Taylor

The Canadian Women’s Hockey League deserves more funding—and more respect

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Photograph by RichardBH
Sports

Hockey, a Part of Our Intangible Cultural Heritage

April 19, 2017March 6, 2020 - by Stephen Smith

Amid concussion fears and declining participation, it’s time for our national sport to join shrimp fishing on horseback among UNESCO’s protected activities

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