by Matthew Dibiase | Apr 23, 2020 | Books, Hockey History, Montreal Canadiens, NHL, Product Reviews
This writer’s personal motto has always been “History abhors a vacuum”. For much too long there has been a vacuum in the annals of hockey history: a definitive biography of the late Toe Blake. Even though Toe Blake was the greatest coach in NHL history until the...
by George Grimm | Mar 23, 2020 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, NHL, Retro Rangers
In February 1980, Mark Pavelich was sitting on top of the world as a key member of the US Hockey team that won the Gold Medal in the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. He then went on to be an unlikely star for the New York Rangers before walking away from the...
by George Grimm | Mar 2, 2020 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, NHL, Retro Rangers
During the NHL’s early years, teams were only required to dress one goaltender. If that netminder was injured he either had to play through the pain and return to the game after being repaired or his team had to scramble for a replacement. Sometimes that meant a...
by George Grimm | Nov 21, 2019 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, Retro Rangers
At 6-foot-2, 205 pounds Czechoslovakian Vaclav Nedomansky was everything Emile Francis, as well as most of the other GM’s in the league, was looking for in a center during the 1970s. He was big and strong, could skate and possessed a wrist shot that was once clocked...
by Brian Kennedy | Sep 27, 2019 | Archived Features, Hockey History, Homepage, Leagues, NCAA, NHL, Seattle Kraken, Women's College Hockey, Women's Hockey
She’s used to being out front of trends. Cammi Granato was playing hockey with boys when she was a teenager back in the 1980s, because that’s where the good competition was. She was a member of the US Women’s National team which went to the first IIHF Ice Hockey...
by George Grimm | Jul 28, 2019 | Hockey History, Homepage, New York Rangers, Retro Rangers
Defenseman Arnie Brown came to the Rangers along with Bob Nevin, Dick Duff, Rod Seiling and Billy Collins in the blockbuster February 22, 1964 deal that sent Blueshirt captain Andy Bathgate and Don McKenney to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Brown had played his junior...
