Zamboniversary! On this night in 1955, a new era in ice-cleaning began at Montreal’s Forum. puckstruck.com/2020/03/10/z...

Park puck, 1954. wp.me/p1hzck-7nM

On NHL trade deadline day, looking back to 1960, when Billy McNeill and Red Kelly of the Red Wings were traded to the New York Rangers ... and said no. wp.me/p1hzck-5LD

Maurice Richard to the Leafs? Or maybe Bobby Hull? On the edge of the NHL's trade deadline, a look back at some of the biggest hockey trades that never quite got there. puckstruck.com/2019/02/25/g...

Mosha Michael on Leaf lookout in 1960 in what today is Iqaluit. wp.me/p1hzck-1Xf

The great Ted Lindsay died on a Monday of this date in 2019. He was 93. wp.me/p1hzck-70y

In the aftermath, President Carter a call to Coach Herb Brooks at Lake Placid’s Olympic Fieldhouse to get in on the jubilation. “He told us,” Brooks recounted, “we made the American people happy tonight. He invited us to the White House for a couple of Cokes Monday.” puckstruck.com/2025/01/10/h...

USA 2 Canada 1 (dispiriting 1960 version). puckstruck.com/2026/02/22/b...

USA 2 Canada 1 (dispiriting 1960 version). puckstruck.com/2026/02/22/b...

In 1920, at the first Olympic hockey tournament, it came down to US v Canada, too. puckstruck.com/2025/02/20/t...

En garde for thee. wp.me/p1hzck-7ls

A birthday today for Phil Esposito, who's 84: many upraised left-shooting Victoriavilles to him. puckstruck.com/2026/02/20/e...

Ahead of this year's hockey Olympics, I talked to Jack McKenzie, who's 95 now. In 1956, he captained Canada through another Italian Olympic adventure. wp.me/p1hzck-7ie

Playing through a blizzard at the wintry Olympics of 1936, the US beat Germany 1-0. puckstruck.com/2022/02/15/s...

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Playing through a blizzard at the wintry Olympics of 1936, the US beat Germany 1-0. puckstruck.com/2022/02/15/s...

Showing the maple leaf in Calgary, ca. 1914. puckstruck.com/2024/03/08/t...

Team 'Toba, '26. puckstruck.com/2024/03/06/t...

Where have you gone, Mitch Marner? puckstruck.com/2026/01/24/b...

Norway is a Winter Olympic giant. Why isn’t it better at ice hockey? www.nytimes.com/athletic/705...

Ahead of the hockey tournament at the 1956 Olympics in Italy, US coach John Mariucci worried that his team had lost its hustle. puckstruck.com/2026/02/18/g...

France and Canada didn't meet at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, but the hosts did take on the US and Britain. They lost those games, but finished the tournament with a win over Belgium. puckstruck.com/2024/01/31/w...

It was 99 years ago that, mid-NHL-season, the Toronto St. Patricks transformed into the Maple Leafs. Conn Smythe usually gets the credit for the name change, though it actually belongs to Charlie Querrie. wp.me/p1hzck-7kp

Stadium series, 1933. French women's hockey powerhouse DAB takes on Flèches Noires in Paris. wp.me/p1hzck-7kE

It was 99 years ago that, mid-NHL-season, the Toronto St. Patricks transformed into the Maple Leafs. Conn Smythe usually gets the credit for the name change, though it actually belongs to Charlie Querrie. wp.me/p1hzck-7kp

Canada beats France 10-2 at the Olympics. From 1899, one of the oldest hockey books weighs in on the question of whether it's okay to run up the score. puckstruck.com/2018/05/07/t...

Alfred de Rauch captained the first three editions of France's Olympic hockey teams, from 1920 through 1928. wp.me/p1hzck-7kt

France and Canada didn't meet at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, but the hosts did take on the US and Britain. They lost those games, but finished the tournament with a win over Belgium. puckstruck.com/2024/01/31/w...

Switzerland v USA at the 1936 Olympics: wp.me/p1hzck-7kd

Switzerland v USA at the 1936 Olympics: wp.me/p1hzck-7kd

Canada v Switzerland at the 1928 Olympics. puckstruck.com/2018/02/17/o...

There was no Olympic miracle on ice in Lake Placid in 1932, when Canada beat the US to win gold on a Saturday of this date, 94 years ago. puckstruck.com/2022/02/13/g...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

As Canada's 2026 men's team prepares to go for hockey gold ... I talked to a couple of 90something members of the 1956 Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, who battled 70 years ago in Cortina for world hockey supremacy. wp.me/p1hzck-7ie

70 years ago, ahead of another Olympic hockey tournament in Italy, Canada's Post Office launched a new stamp. puckstruck.com/2026/02/12/g...

Beating a path to the puck. puckstruck.com/2024/11/26/b...

This week in Ottawa in 1892, Isobel Stanley suffered the first recorded upper-body injury in women's hockey. Her famous father? Canada's GG Lord Stanley, donor of hockey's most famous trophy. cc: @nicolehaase.bsky.social @mingemi.bsky.social @jaredbook.bsky.social puckstruck.com/2024/02/16/b...

This week in 1892, Isobel Stanley suffered the first recorded upper-body injury in women's hockey. Her famous father? GG Lord Stanley, donor of hockey's most famous trophy. cc: @haileysalvian.bsky.social @brucearthur.bsky.social @iankennedyck.bsky.social puckstruck.com/2024/02/16/b...

Despite what you're seeing here, Canada and the US did not play with the lid of a teapot at the 1932 Olympics instead of a puck. wp.me/p1hzck-5a4

This is terrific.

As Canada's 2026 men's team prepares to go for hockey gold ... I talked to a couple of 90something members of the 1956 Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, who battled 70 years ago in Cortina for world hockey supremacy. wp.me/p1hzck-7ie

This beautiful print - from the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada collection - turns 108 this month. William Rider-Rider, Canadian buying a hat at a second-hand store near Lens, February 1918, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Museum & Archives 2018.413.2504.

Scraping the Olympic ice, 1936. puckstruck.com/2018/02/13/f...

The Leafs are celebrating Darryl Sittler's 10-point game tonight at Scotiabank Arena. I was at the game in 1976 as a 9-year-old, with my dad. I wrote about that on an earlier anniversary. More here: puckstruck.com/2012/02/07/b...

Heading to another Italian Olympics, this one in 1956, Canada's hopeful hockey team started their journey in Kitchener-Waterloo. puckstruck.com/2026/02/05/g...

Heading to another Italian Olympics, this one in 1956, Canada's hopeful hockey team started their journey in Kitchener-Waterloo. puckstruck.com/2026/02/05/g...

With the Olympics set to hit the ice, a look back at the very first Olympic hockey game, in 1920, when Sweden played its first ever competitive game — and whomped Belgium. puckstruck.com/2026/02/03/a...

#topoli Wychwood Barns community-made rink, all frozen and cleared and ready to go. ⛸️🥅🏒🇨🇦

Out on Toronto's open-air ice, 111 years ago today. wp.me/p1hzck-7gP

A bird in the hand ... (cc: William Nylander) puckstruck.com/2025/02/18/a...