Welcome, readers of The Athletic, to the first of many every-so-often mailbags I intend to write in the coming months and years and millennia. You all submitted scores of questions, and I'll get to as ...

NHL players choosing their own goal songs is trending in a sport that’s historically emphasized team and downplayed the individual. The Winnipeg Jets this season are among the latest clubs to let each ...

Hockey is loaded with unique traditions like playoff beards and handshake lines and putting team logos on the locker room floor, where they are never, under any circumstances, to be tread upon. But in ...

A hockey goal is so unlike scoring in any other major American sport. It doesn’t happen nearly as frequently as in basketball, or with the gradual march down the field in football. Even a home run ...

In the 1970s, Chicago Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz loved the sound of the horn on his yacht and decided to install one in Chicago Stadium, where the Blackhawks played. The horn soon became expected ...

At NHL hockey games, though, the goal song resonates each time the home team puts rips one into the back of the net. You’ve got your train horns, fog horn, boat or ship-like horns, firetruck or a ...