Our Game Headlines
- Replay: A celebration of Minor Hockey
- On June 11th, CBC Sports' hosted a live, online forum for fans to connect with NHLers and share their favourite minor hockey memories.
- Minor Memories: NHLers look back
- On Thursday, May 28, from 1-2 p.m. ET, Our Game connected with the pros, including Chris Gratton, Alyn McCauley and Kelly Hrudey, in a live chat about concussions, paying minor hockey coaches and who had the best 'trash talk' on the ice.
- 'I felt like I was dreaming,' winner of Stanley Cup tickets says
- As winner of CBC's Our Game Star contest, Montreal's Simeon Kirimidtchiev, 14, is off to the Stanley Cup Finals, which he says is a dream come true
- Replay: Coaching the coaches
- On May 14th, Our Game chatted in a live forum with three-time gold medal winning national junior coach Craig Hartsburg along with the former women's national u-22 coach Lisa Jordan and the head of coaching for Hockey Canada.
- Steven Stamkos: 'I was in a Jolly Jumper...'
- Tampa Bay Lightning forward Steven Stamkos recalls his finest minor hockey memories, including his obessesion with mini sticks.
Meet the Coaches
- 'Sometimes I do half French, half English'
- Coach Jean Pelletier in Dalhousie, N.B., speaks to his players in both French and English, and says not everybody on his team is bilingual, so he often has to elaborate in both languages.
- 'Sgt. Hockey' coaches more than the game
- Lots of players had watched Stan Polsom from afar, shouting from the bench, his loud, hoarse voice echoing across the ice. But most come to realize that playing for Polsom means learning to become not only a better player but also a better person.
- Former NHLer finds fit in peewee
- Dave Babych spent the better part of two decades with five NHL teams including the Winnipeg Jets and the Vancouver Canucks. Today, the 48-year-old finds himself on the North Shore of British Columbia giving back to the game, which provided him with a memorable 20 years.
- Wanted: Female coaches
- In her last three years behind the bench with competitive women's hockey teams in Nova Scotia, Alicia MacDonald has come across only one other female head coach. And she's been looking.
- Growing the game
- When Wade Parker's work is done, 20 years from now, the arenas of Summerland, B.C., will be bursting. Not just with kids -- but with middle-aged Canadians who live for the game.