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Canada takes on Switzerland today in Vancouver in soccer’s World Cup, so here’s reaching across sports and time to show the colours for the team in red-and-white — whichever of the two you happen t…

The announcement means Hockey Night in Canada, which began airing in the fall of 1952, will cease to exist in its current form

CBC announced they will no longer participate in Rogers Sportsnet’s coverage of the NHL under their renewed 12 year deal. Hockey is no longer a public cultural good.

The Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup was commissioned in 1892 by Lord Stanley of Preston, sixth governor-general of Canada. This, above, is how it looked  in 1930. Below is the storied Cup after it wa…

We’ve kept a close eye here at Puckstruck on the evolution of NHL grooming standards, combing through hockey’s history to investigate the league’s earliest moustaches while keeping an eye, too, on …

Found not guilty of sexual assault last summer, Hart now sits on hockey's biggest stage. Vegas continues to shield him from the media.

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Claude Lemieux's brain is being donated to the Boston University CTE Center to research the long-term effects of repetitive brain injuries, his family said Saturday in a statement released by daughter...

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Lemieux, 60, died just days after carrying the ceremonial torch at Montreal's Bell Centre ahead of Game 3 of the Eastern Conference final.

It’s a birthday today for Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobeš, who’s 25, so here’s flourishing a red-bladed True HZRDUS 9×4 goal stick in his direction by way of salutation. Born on Sund…

“What is there to say as Canadiens win yet another Stanley Cup — their 21st — and counting … ? If Montreal’s championship briefly tongue-tied Red Fisher of the Montreal Star when they re-claimed th…

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Gump Worsley was born in Montreal on a Tuesday of this very date in 1929, so here’s cheering to his memory. Tending goals for the New York Rangers (ten seasons), his hometown Canadiens (seven), and…

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That Connor McDavid was not his wholesome self during the Edmonton Oilers’ first-round playoff series against the Anaheim Ducks isn’t exactly news: anyone watching the Oilers go down in six games c…

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The redoubtable Gump Worsley was part of four Stanley Cup-winning teams with Montreal in the 1960s. The first championship he was in on came at the start of May in 1965, when he shared the net with…

Many Habby Returns: A postcard published by the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society, circa the 1960s … with a background cameo by Boston defenceman Bob Armstrong.

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The Hockey Scene, a peppy paperback published in 1951, was a compendium of photos and articles pitched at new and prospective American hockey fans. Co-author Stan Saplin was the former PR director …

Amazons is the novel that, for years, the great Don DeLillo wouldn’t acknowledge he wrote, from the time it was published in 1980 right up until 2020, when he fessed up. If you haven’t heard, it’s …

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Born in Riverton, Manitoba, in 1950 on a Sunday in April of this date, Reggie Leach is 70 today. Just why he still hasn’t been voted to hockey’s Hall of Fame remains a mystery, but the oversight do…

Images of Tony Esposito’s hands as he readies them for a night’s work in February of 1981 at Chicago’s Stadium. By the time Esposito turned 38 on this date in April of that year, the Blackhaw…

Lester Pearson’s first foray into European hockey was in 1917, on wartime deployment in what was then Salonika (today it’s Thessaloniki, in Greece). Canada’s future prime minister was 20 that March…

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“This is a boy band as much as a hockey team, with the giddy fans to match.” That was Eric Andrew-Gee, in yesterday’s Globe and Mail, reporting on (and reflecting) the excitement attending the Mont…

Paul Bibeault was a hit before he made his debut in goal for the Montreal Canadiens in March of 1941, and he was a hit afterwards, too. Canadiens were languishing in sixth place in the seven-team N…

Paul Bibeault was a hit before he made his debut in goal for the Montreal Canadiens in March of 1941, and he was a hit afterwards, too. Canadiens were languishing in sixth place in the seven-team N…

Can we get a peal of churchbells out over Westmount, a skirl of bagpipes up on Mount Royal, a salvo of Mile End artillery? It was a century ago today that the Montreal’s other NHL powerhouse seized…

Montreal Canadiens winger Cole Caufield, who’s a goal away from 50, will take to the ice tonight with his team in Newark against the New Jersey Devils. No jinx intended, but if the 25-year-old from…

We’ve checked in before on the roisterous NHL career of Ken Reardon, the Hall-of-Famer who played defence (and did some jail-time) for the Montreal Canadiens, and it’s time again, since today’s his…