Research and Markets: Fighting the Good Fight: Why On-Ice Violence Is Killing Hockey

Dublin - Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Fighting the G

The perfect predator

A dream had carried the boys so far from home, some 5,000 miles across the ocean to a cramped and dingy apartment in Philadelphia: a hope that ice hockey could change their lives. Ivan Pravilov could fulfill that dream, they were told. He could take them from the daily grind of post-communist Ukraine to the gleaming ice of the NHL.

Hockey Guy: Hossa's demise puts Shanahan on the spot

There has been considerable squawking about hockey violence during these playoffs. The reformists are out in full force, spewing outrage.

Oddly charming 'Goon' combines goofy idealism with brutal violence

If you are at all alien to the concept of ice hockey as it's practiced in North America, and otherwise do not harbor a fetish for witnessing assault and battery, then "Goon" is probably not for you.

Hockey violence: A view of nothing new

Don Cherry is right about one thing: this has been going on forever.There really is nothing new about the violence in this year’s NHL playoffs. Many people are reacting as though some sort of threshold has been crossed this season, whether by the Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins or Shea Weber or Raffi Torres, or all of the above. But violence, brawling, attempts to injure and cheap ...