The era of the enforcer is dead? Not really

Leafland shook ever so slightly this past week when Brian Burke took center stage to take heat away (as he likes to do, and good for him) fr...

Colton Orr and Mike Brown: almost a throwback to when enforcers could play

Recently I posted on modern-day hockey parlance that includes terms such as “energy line”— a phrase you didn’t hear back in the 1960s, for ...

1960s: Remembering two colorful guys: Howie Young and Reggie Fleming

There have always been colorful characters in hockey, but when I think of real “characters”, for some reason I think of certain individual...