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by Trystan L. Bass
Wed, September 26, 2007, 3:00 am PDT

So many sports sites are all about stats and rules. Base percentages, offsides, penalty shots, shootouts, championships won and lost, blah blah blah. Or it's boring old "my team's better than your's, no it's not, yes it is." Luckily, one web site stands head and hockey stick above the rest. The NHL Tournament of Logos focuses its energy on the jerseys and the fancy insignias upon them.

We're talking graphic design here, sports fans! Colors, stripes, lettering, giant As, and huge music notes. This hockey season, the league is moving to a more-fitted style of jersey called the "Rbk Edge," so jersey news abounds. But even without the "edge," this blog takes on history like the original Bruins and Maple Leafs logos. You'll also find wacky concept art for baggy uniforms that will never be. And every week, people vote in battle of the logos, which pitts one team's logo against another's or challenges old logos with new ones from within the same team. Now you can take that trash talk to a whole new designer level.

Wed, May 28, 2003, 3:00 am PDT

Hockey is much more than a bunch of guys with missing teeth and mullets. Thanks to the National Library of Canada, even non-Canadians can appreciate the origins of this rough-and-tumble ice sport. Skate back to the early days and learn how Canadian hockey started in the mid-1800s. Women's hockey also gets its due -- after all, Lord Stanley's own daughter loved to play. The heart of this site is the Great Hockey Stories, which features newspaper articles from 1829 to the present. Read about the origins of the Stanley Cup, a 1907 game that resulted in murder charges, the 1924 expansion of NHL teams into the U.S., the girl who secretly played on a boy's team in 1955, and the stunning 1988 deal that sent Wayne Gretzky from Edmonton to L.A. You don't need to understand icing or power plays to get a kick out of Canadian hockey's long history.

Filed under: Sports, Hockey

Mon, October 07, 2002, 3:00 am PDT

With the puck dropping on another hockey season, it's time to take a look at the coolest thing on the ice -- the uniforms. Adopted by the hip-hop community and the just plain hip, the hockey sweater has become a baggy badge of cool. This exhaustive look at NHL garb since 1917 provides an interesting peek at the evolution of hockey attire. This site is broken down year by year so you can marvel at the baby blue unis originally donned by the Pittsburgh Penguins, the simple stylings of the 1925 Montreal Maroons, or the fresh looks sported by now-departed teams of the '80s, including the Whalers, Jets, and Nordiques. This fun and fascinating look at the history of style in the NHL scores a hat trick.

Filed under: Sports, Hockey, Uniforms

by Erik Gunther
Sat, January 12, 2002, 12:00 am PST

Throw down the gloves and make your way to this compelling fan site devoted to the seamier side of hockey. While it's ostensibly about the Philadelphia Flyers, the real treasure is found in the streaming clips of goons going mano-a-mano. With over 300 video clips of hockey fights, there's a tussle to suit any fan -- we suggest the vintage five-part, bench-clearing brawl between the Canucks and Flyers. Whatever your pleasure, you'll find this site packs a mean punch.

Filed under: Sports, Hockey


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