Archive for category In the Stands
Book Review: Fighting the Good Fight
Posted by Editor in In the Stands on December 2011
Fighting the Good Fight: Why On-Ice Violence is Killing Hockey by Adam Proteau
Book Review by Sheryl Normandeau (CALGARY, AB)
A LONG-TIME HOCKEY COLUMNIST with The Hockey News, Adam Proteau isn’t afraid to express his views in print, online, or in the many television appearances he has made on shows such as Off the [...]
A Hockey Career, at What Cost?
Posted by Editor in In the Stands, Off the Ice on November 2011
Contributed by Valerie Bean (Pickering, ON)
REVELATIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN SPORTS have come to the forefront in the past few years, but the subject hit close to home when I read personal accounts by Sheldon Kennedy (2006), Theo Fleury (2009), and Steve Danton’s story as told by Toronto Sun sports columnist Steve Simmons (2011).
For a [...]
Crossing the Line
Posted by Editor in In the Stands, Off the Ice on October 2011
Contributed by Laura Robinson (Toronto-based journalist)
Thank you to journalist Laura Robinson, author of Crossing the Line: Violence and Sexual Assault in Canada’s National Sport, who permitted Minor.Hockey.Life. to reproduce this article, she wrote for Play the Game, 2002.
In her correspondence with MHL, Laura told us of her reasons for writing about this disturbing, but important topic.
It is out of print now, [...]
Yearbooks
Posted by Editor in In the Stands on November 2009
Creating yearbooks for younger hockey players not only allows the player’s to share the season’s memories. It provides the parents with a team-building exercise; parents get involved in taking pictures and putting the book together. And the kids get a keepsake.
Fundraising: Opt-in Programs Work Best
Posted by Editor in In the Stands on October 2008
IN A RECENT POLL, FUNDRAISING TOPPED THE LIST of things that parents dislike most about back to school.