Category : The Death Pool
The Death Pool – Annual Worst Team In North America Contest
We love some bad hockey. Bad organizations, bad coaches, bad players, terrible housing situations, and outright scam artists really keep things interesting. This season, there...
The Death Pool – Its Not Junior Hockey When …..
Junior hockey is a benefit to so many players and towns around the world. The positive impacts that can be made by players and organizations...
The Death Pool – 2024 And The Summer To Come
It was only about fifteen years ago when things in the United States began to change. Independent hockey was spearheaded by the Western States Hockey...
The Death Pool – Five AJHL Teams Leave Immediately For BCHL – But Its All About The Kids
Less than two weeks after the BCHL deliberately made a press release about five teams from the AJHL joining the BCHL for the 2024-2025 season,...
The Death Pool – As Many As 40 More Teams Talking About Leaving Hockey Canada
Hockey Canada is in trouble. Not simply because of the complete mishandling of sexual assault allegations and the coverup of payments made. Hockey Canada is...
The Death Pool – BCHL’s Reasons For Leaving Hockey Canada And AJHL Teams Reasons For Joining Not Supported By Facts
The BCHL left Hockey Canada this past summer of 2023. Good for them. Autonomy is one of the reasons the league made to move. Who...
The Death Pool – NA3HL Yellowstone Quake On Deaths Door
Here at the Death Pool, we love the NA3HL. This is a league that has given the Death Pool so much over the years, that...
The Death Pool – Fox Creek Ice Kings On Deaths Door
A new year, and a new time to spread the joy of the holiday season. And by spreading joy we mean delivering the news that...
The Death Pool – When The NJHL Plays Nearly 30 Players Over 21 Is It Junior Hockey?
Happy New Year everyone! From everyone here at TJHN, we hope you and yours have had a happy and safe holiday season. For months now,...
The Death Pool – NJHL Has Big Trouble In Gibbons And Fox Creek
Happy holidays all you vultures reading the Death Pool! lol You know when the holiday season comes around lots of strange things can happen. People...
The Death Pool – Richmond Generals Fold Mid Season
In what can only be seen as an absolutely shocking development the USPHL’s Richmond Generals have decided to not continue playing the 2023-2024 season. Having...
The Death Pool – NJHL’s Vulcan Rampage In Trouble Financially
The NJHL, and the hockey business genius have been rewriting the definitions of junior hockey acceptable behavior for the last few years. Well, thats if...
The Death Pool – The NJHL Losing A Team Already?
With tomorrow being Halloween, we may be able to lay a fresh headstone on a team. The league laughingly calling itself the National Junior Hockey...
The Death Pool – Its Not Junior Hockey When…..
October is a great month to really settle in for the hockey season. The change of weather is setting in all over, and people are...
The Death Pool – Battle Of The Bastards – Part Four – Another Team Switches Leagues
Just when you thought that the NJHL and CAJHL battle roayal for turf in Western Canada couldn’t any more stupid, they go ahead and do...
The Death Pool – Top Ten Signs Your Tier 3 Team May Be Folding
It is that time of year ladies and gentlemen. Facebook messages and emails start rolling in about all the great Tier 3 or “pay to...
The Death Pool – Battle Of The Bastards Part Three
Some people were laughing when we started talking about the “turf war” that was going to take place in Alberta between the CAJHL and the...
The Death Pool – Battle Of The Bastards Update
With the temperatures starting to dip in Western Canada, people are starting to talk about the exciting turf war between the CAJHL and NJHL. Hockey...
The Death Pool – Steady Decline In Canadian Development Dominance Is A Touchy Subject Up North
Turns out a lot of Canadian readers had their little feelings hurt by the TJHN Top Twenty Rankings. They wanted to argue on Facebook how...
The Death Pool – The End Of Junior Hockey Fighting
Yes. You read that correctly. Fighting in junior hockey will soon be coming to an abrupt and permanent end. At least the end of the...