Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ice Hockey

Brothers?

Are Jonathan Toews and David Toews, brothers? GoodDay (talk) 20:00, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

A Google search returns a bunch of results, including reports from reputable media sources, saying that they are. 1995hoo (talk) 20:21, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

[1] yes. Conyo14 (talk) 20:57, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Cahill Stadium

The article Cahill Stadium has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unreferenced and unimproved 15 years. Run of the mill, very small stadium. No references in French language article either. Not enough information to merge. Article created in 2005 and stadium closed in 2007.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Bearian (talk) 18:31, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

HHOF members in Stanley Cup Finals articles infoboxes

Do we really need two lists of HHOF members in the Year Stanley Cup Finals articles? GoodDay (talk) 23:00, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

Could you provide an example? Conyo14 (talk) 23:21, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

More precise the infoboxes of those articles. See 1971 Stanley Cup Finals where there's lists of 'ten' names for the Canadiens & 'three' for the Blackhawks. GoodDay (talk) 23:24, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

Oh I see. It clutters the infobox a bit more. I kinda don't see the point, but others should chip in with their opinion too. Conyo14 (talk) 00:33, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

I think they should be kept; maybe collapsible lists should be added if there's a large number (a la 1971), but having HoFers in the infobox for finals series/games seems to be a fairly common practice across all sports Wikiprojects; see 1993 NBA Finals or 1999 World Series. The Kip ^(contribs) 02:08, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

That is true, but WP:HOCKEY is no stranger to being different with their infoboxes. Conyo14 (talk) 06:50, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

My rule of thumb is that the infobox should include key characteristics that are essential for a concise overview of the subject. My initial thoughts is that I do not feel a list of participating future hall-of-famers (from the perspective of the time of the finals) meets this criterion. isaacl (talk) 23:03, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

I'm considering 'deleting' the HHOFers lists from those articles, as those players weren't HHOFers at the time of their participation in the Cup finals. Any objections? GoodDay (talk) 17:49, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

None from me Conyo14 (talk) 17:59, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

I do, but if I’m overruled I won’t fight it. The Kip ^(contribs) 18:46, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Cleveland Barons (NHL)#Requested move 19 January 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Cleveland Barons (NHL)#Requested move 19 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TiggerJay (talk) 07:15, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Cranbrook Memorial Arena

Is this small ice arena notable? It has been unsourced for 15 years. Can you please find and add reliable sources to this stub? Bearian (talk) 21:19, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Nope, just PROD it. Conyo14 (talk) 00:20, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

A BEFORE search does show a number of recent articles on it for its renovation and it is on WHL Arenas. I'm not sure it would pass AfD, but an AfD might get us a redirect to Kootenay Ice. SportingFlyer T·C 01:31, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

I'd be good with a redirect Conyo14 (talk) 04:52, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Roster templates of Coyotes & Thrashers

Template:Arizona Coyotes roster & Template:Atlanta Thrashers roster should be deleted. Note - we don't have such roster templates for the Nordiques, Whalers, original Jets, North Stars, etc. GoodDay (talk) 20:54, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and the note GoodDay. It is also important to note Wikipedia did't exist when the teams you mentioned in the notes stopped existing Servite et contribuere (talk) 21:20, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

My point is, such templates are useless as those teams no longer exist. GoodDay (talk) 21:24, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your giving your point GoodDay. I have saved a backup on my page nonetheless just in case a discussion over whether a final roster should be added to the article or not is started, just in case users do want to be able to see what the final roster was. And you ultimately never know Servite et contribuere (talk) 21:44, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Differences between team-season pages in "Regular season" sections

I was reviewing some NHL team pages for the current season this morning, and I'm surprised at the inconsistent formatting, colors, and columns across the different team pages in the "Regular season" sections.

Examples, but not an exhaustive list:

• 2024–25 New York Rangers season has Game/Date/Opponent/Score/OT/Decision/Location/Attendance/Record/Points/Recap columns, and uses green/red/white for win/loss/ot-loss.
• 2024–25 Washington Capitals season has #/Date/Visitor/Score/Home/OT/Decision/Location/Attendance/Record columns, links the score to the recap, and also uses the green/red/white colors for win/loss/ot-loss.
• 2024–25 Pittsburgh Penguins season has #/Date/Visitor/Score/Home/OT/Arena/Decision/Attendance/Record/Points/Recap, and uses green/light purple/yellow for win/loss/ot-loss.

Last year, I created {{Game-won}} and other associated templates (linked in the "See also" section of the documentation) to help with consistent colors to denote which teams won/lost games. Those templates are currently being used in all of the 2024 NFL team season pages, the current-season PWHL pages, as well as in the {{CIH schedule entry}} (which itself is used in over 1,000 pages.)

What do the members of the WikiProject here think about creating consistency among the different team pages in these sections? Is it something that we'd like to strive for, or not? --MikeVitale 20:13, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Across the season pages sounds good! Conyo14 (talk) 23:10, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Is there a template for the legend? --NHL04 (talk) 18:53, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

Not that I'm aware of.

That said, I've been considering how we might create something similar to (or combine with?) {{CIH schedule start}} and {{CIH schedule entry}} that college hockey team season pages use. Example: 2024–25 Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey season and 2024–25 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season.

I like the code that goes along with using a template with named parameters for the information instead of just a bare set of table code. But then, I am a software developer by trade... --MikeVitale 23:09, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

Personal bias, but I'd rather like to keep doing things the way they are at 2024–25 Vegas Golden Knights season - I prefer the less table-like look. The Kip ^(contribs) 22:08, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

When you say "less table-like", do you mean the fact that the VGK page has white borders around the cells instead of black borders like on the NYR page? --MikeVitale 23:12, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

Pretty much, as well as the white background rather than grey. Just looks cleaner to me. The Kip ^(contribs) 23:13, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

I'm not really sure I much care about that.

If we were to build a template (as I suggested above), I'm sure we could build parameters into it so that either grey or white background could be output. --MikeVitale 23:18, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

This morning, I completed editing the 2024-25 pages for all NHL teams to replace any type of manual styling (whether that was bgcolor=fff or style="background:#fff;") to use the {{Game-won}}, {{Game-otl}}, and {{Game-lost}} templates. This means all teams (for the current season) are now using the following web-safe colors to denote W/L/OTL:

#cfc -   Win (2 points)
#fcc -   Loss (0 points)
#fff -   Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)

Additionally, for future games, they were given a comment of <!-- {{Game-won}}, {{Game-otl}}, {{Game-lost}} -->. This will hopefully make it easier to use moving forward. --MikeVitale 17:15, 15 February 2025 (UTC)

I definitely appreciate the templates replacing the manual styling, seems quite a lot more straightforward/simple. The Kip ^(contribs) 17:34, 15 February 2025 (UTC)

Media rights at International Tournaments

There is a discussion at 4 Nations Face-Off regarding whether every non-involved countries' media coverage should be included in the article. Conyo14 (talk) 22:37, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

Yevgeni Belosheikin

It has come up that it is possible that he received a gold medal as the third goalie at the 1998 Calgary Olympics. Eliteprospects claims it to be true, but the IIHF guide and record book does not list him on the roster. The official report from the LA84 foundation lists him on page 657 as part of the the Soviet delegation (spelled Evgueni Belocheikine). I don't know if the LA84 reference confirms him as a medalist or not though. I can't find him in the Olympics.com database but maybe it is incomplete or I am missing something.18abruce (talk) 15:49, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

Lacking something from the IOC itself, the IIHF is the primary authority here, being the governing body for international hockey. Ravenswing 16:14, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

United States men's national ice hockey team

Hi there, I want to constructive a competitive record in world championships and add back the datas, inclued the team result, position, games played, won & lost, GF, GA. The format will be same as olympic games. But unfortunately, a user Flibirigit seems that disagree and said that no WP:CONSENSUS to change it. How should I do and I need ask someone for help. Thanks. Stevencocoboy (talk) 02:16, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

I repeat my suggestion made multiple times: Use a sandbox or user subpage to develop the chart, so it can be compared. It is best to have a current version and a proposed version to look at it. You are currently making test edits by overwriting a table on a talk page, which breaks the discussion history, and cannot be followed in a chronological discussion. Again, please use a sandbox for the test edits! Flibirigit (talk) 02:20, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

A previous discussion can be found at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ice_Hockey/Archive86#Edit_war_situation_at_United_States_men's_national_ice_hockey_team, directly related to the above. Flibirigit (talk) 02:37, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

@Stevencocoboy: Why do you ignore messages on your talkpage? GoodDay (talk) 17:13, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

List of Canadian national ice hockey team rosters (low importance)

Just wanted to revisit an old discussion re:Criteria for a team's inclusion. See my same comment on the talk page there:

I feel like a decade and a half later we need to re-evaluate. If we are not including select and invitational tournaments like Canada Cup or Spengler Cup, nor are we including limited-entry Women's events like the 4 Nations Cup, should we really be including limited NHL-events like the 2016 World Cup of Hockey or the 2025 Five Nations Face-Off?

–uncleben85 (talk) 16:23, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

I've deleted 2025 4 Nations Face-Off from that article. The tournament doesn't quite fit there & it's addition seems based as WP:RECENTISM, IMHO. GoodDay (talk) 16:43, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Personally, I think we should be including the rosters of all best on best tournaments, as their prestige alone makes them worthy of inclusion. Events like the Spengler Cup can be left out though.-- Earl Andrew - talk 17:28, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Best-on-best gets subjective, though, when participation is limited. The past two Olympics, for example, had Canadian rosters comparable to the Spengler rosters, and the 4 Nations arguably was missing some of the best players in the world due to the exclusion of specific countries. –uncleben85 (talk) 02:06, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Best-on-best? No team Russia, Czechia, Slovakia, Germany? GoodDay (talk) 02:13, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Best on best is subjective, I suppose, but is usually backed by reliable sources. This tournament was definitely considered best on best by the media, even without Russia. And if Russia is excluded from the Olympics, does that really mean we can't call it best of best? There's a reason why they're excluded, and we can't let it be the reason why we can't call this best on best.-- Earl Andrew - talk 14:14, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

We do not need rosters at all on national team articles. They require constant maintenance and only replicate when is easily available on other web sites. The roster can go on the specific event article instead. Flibirigit (talk) 16:55, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Addition of Political tensions to 4 Nations Face-Off

There is a discussion at Talk:2025 4 Nations Face-Off#People booing. regarding whether the political tensions between Canada and the United States should be added to this article. Conyo14 (talk) 17:33, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Requested move notice

An editor has requested that Dump'n'Chase be moved to Dump and chase, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. Left guide (talk) 23:32, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Montreal Canadiens

@Diannaa: & @Mactin:, we don't show diacritics in the names of people per WP:NCIH, at North American-based non-player articles. GoodDay (talk) 20:04, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Draft:2027 NHL entry draft

Howdy all,

With the trade deadline approaching, I figured it'd be a good time to get this draft page started up, seeing as a lot of 2027 picks are more than likely to be traded at this deadline. Feel free to take a look/make improvements; I believe I've gotten all the traded picks thus far, but I might've missed one or two. The Kip ^(contribs) 06:29, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Later today I'll add a section on top prospects since there's so much buzz around Landon DuPont. Wheatzilopochtli (talk) 14:35, 24 February 2025 (UTC)