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Tag: Hockey

Health · Sports

Brains don’t lie about hockey’s damage

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 2, 2019, 8:42 AM Apr 2, 2019
14 Comments

Perhaps it won’t be long before hockey acknowledges what is increasingly becoming clear: constant hits damage the brain. Read more →

Sports

Grand Forks as #1 hockey city? No

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 20, 2019, 8:45 AM Mar 20, 2019
13 Comments

Can you be the State of Hockey and not have the top “hockey city” in the country, Minnesota? Sure. Read more →

Sports

Hockey’s racism is showing

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 20, 2019, 7:05 AM Mar 20, 2019

An amateur league playoff game in western New York was canceled because of racism last weekend. Read more →

Health · Sports

Former NHL player reveals his brush with suicide

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 13, 2019, 7:07 AM Mar 13, 2019
4 Comments

A little over a year ago, Jamie Baker, a lunchpail NHL player for the Quebec Nordiques, Ottawa Senators, San Jose Sharks and Toronto Maple Leafs back in the day, had a few moments with his own thoughts during his current job as a TV analyst for the San Jose Sharks. That’s when he decided that he would kill himself. Read more →

Sports

Gophers hockey leads Big Ten in fan disinterest

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 11, 2019, 8:47 AM Mar 11, 2019
23 Comments

Serious question: Are you really the state of hockey, Minnesota? Can you be with an empty arena for your signature college hockey team? Read more →

Sports

‘Lynching’ reference prompts Channel 45 ‘apology’

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 8, 2019, 8:24 AM Mar 8, 2019

A quick glance at the calendar confirms that it’s 2019, so it’s important to ask what on earth goes through a person’s mind when referring to lynching during a hockey game broadcast? Read more →

Health · Sports

Hockey coach focused on state tournament while carrying weight of son’s suicide

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2019, 8:08 AM Feb 22, 2019
4 Comments

If you’re the type to toss the sports section from the daily newspaper, you’ll miss a well-written and bittersweet story about a father who’s trying to press on after his son killed himself. Read more →

Sports

Apple Valley hockey coach decks referee

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 12, 2019, 9:57 AM Feb 12, 2019
17 Comments

Hockey rage has struck — literally — a referee in Breezy Point.
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Sports · The jobs we do

Full-time trash hauler builds NHL franchise in spare time

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2018, 9:05 AM Dec 31, 2018
1 Comment

Dan Shrader, of Prior Lake, was likely out picking up the trash this morning. It’s his full-time job. Between a few stops, he helps build one of the best franchises in the National Hockey League. Read more →

Sports

West Fargo hockey team delivers flowers to an opponent

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 2, 2018, 5:07 PM Dec 2, 2018
3 Comments

Flowers and hockey generally don’t go hand in hand. But the times demanded it for the West Fargo Sheyenne Mustang hockey team, which made a stop on the way to their game against the Red River Roughriders. Read more →

Sports

For the love of outdoor hockey

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 30, 2018, 8:08 PM Nov 30, 2018
4 Comments

Given a choice between indoors and outdoors, an NHL team can’t resist hockey the way it was meant to be played. Read more →

Sports

Bob Naegele, who brought the NHL back to MN, dies

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 8, 2018, 10:03 AM Nov 8, 2018
2 Comments

Bob Naegele never seemed to get the credit he deserved in the state of hockey. He brought the National Hockey League back to Minnesota, a distinction that politicians hijacked back in the ’90s, a few years after Norm Green spirited the North Stars to Dallas. Read more →

Sports

Kenya’s coolest sport? It’s hockey

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 15, 2018, 2:16 PM Oct 15, 2018
6 Comments

Here’s your daily dose of sweetness. Satellite TV has brought hockey to Kenya. A doughnut company from Canada, displaying marketing genius, took care of the rest. Read more →

Sports

Minnesota Wild to female fans: Your big purse is now a problem

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 11, 2018, 2:58 PM Sep 11, 2018
47 Comments

The NHL team on Tuesday became the latest sports franchise to double-down on security measures, announcing a new policy that will hit women hardest. Read more →

Sports

The healing power of the Stanley Cup

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 3, 2018, 4:03 PM Jul 3, 2018
2 Comments

Everybody on a Stanley Cup-winning team gets to spend a day with the Cup. They can do pretty much whatever they want.

Today, it was the equipment manager’s turn. So Craig Leydig took it to The Capital Gazette, where five people were killed in a mass shooting last week. Read more →

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