Posts by Wayne Jones

I remember well watching hockey on Wednesday March 13th, 2020. The NBA had already suspended a game due to COVID, and I thought, ‘this is probably going to be the last hockey I watch for a long...

No one feels bad for NHL players and the salaries they are paid - they still do make millions. But, the highest paid players in the NHL seem like they make significantly less than the other major...

Everyone knows that sports is big business. It hasn’t always been this way, but in the past three decades professional sports has found a way to significantly increase the money they take in. So...

Every team has a strategy to create offense in hockey. When trying to get the puck into the offensive zone a team has two options: carry the puck into the zone or shoot the puck in and try to...

Everyone loves to know a player’s salary. We judge so much of their performance by it - is the player worth the contract or not?  However, to have an accurate assessment we need to know what...

Wayne Gretzky is nicknamed "The Great One". He is the greatest hockey player who ever lived. All great hockey legends have their first - goal, game, point, contract, championship. In this post I...