Category: Hockey
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The Hockey Players Revolt
Ken Jowdy surrounded himself with exactly the people who make wealthy investors comfortable: NHL stars, golf royalty, private-aircraft passengers, Davis Love III and eventually Tiger Woods. The formula worked. Diamante…
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Loans Ken Jowdy Couldn’t Erase
The federal government sold jurors a clean story: Phillip Kenner secretly diverted Hawaii investor money to Mexico and concealed the theft. Kenner was convicted, sentenced to 17 years and lost…
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The Man Behind The Brochure
Ken Jowdy’s official biography shines like a new driver beneath the Cabo sun. Diamante calls him the visionary who personally directed financing, construction and operations while assembling a golf kingdom…
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Canada Drops the Gloves
Canada’s political class wanted a nationalist spectacle. What it produced was a monument to its own dependency. Canadian officials opened the Gordie Howe International Bridge—a multibillion-dollar gateway whose economic purpose…
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Hockey’s Holiest Trophy Hijacked
The Stanley Cup is supposed to remember sacrifice, not celebrate bloodlines. Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon turned hockey’s most sacred monument into a silver family album when he placed his…
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NHL’s Bettman Problem
The Carolina Hurricanes lifted the Stanley Cup, and the NHL should be celebrating. Instead, the league is facing an ugly question: why did hockey’s biggest moment feel so small? This…
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Sin City Hockey Spotlight
Las Vegas was once treated like a hockey punchline, a desert gamble that traditionalists thought would never survive the grind of the NHL. Then the Golden Knights arrived and burned…
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McCrimmon’s Masterstroke Still Pays Off for Golden Knights
The Vegas Golden Knights were never supposed to beat the NHL’s timetable this badly. Expansion teams are supposed to lose, rebuild, and politely wait their turn. Vegas had other plans.…
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Hockey’s Warrior Problem: Claude Lemieux and CTE
Claude Lemieux was not built for polite hockey. He was built for May and June, for elbows, hate, pressure, brawls, and the brutal playoff theater that turns ordinary players into…
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The Frozen Throne Shifts South
Canada used to treat hockey like a birthright. The Stanley Cup was supposed to live somewhere north of the border, guarded by tradition, Original Six ghosts, and cold-weather mythology. But…
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Bednar’s Colorado Clown Show
The Colorado Avalanche did not merely lose Game 3 in Las Vegas. They staged a leadership collapse under playoff lights. Colorado jumped to a 3-0 first-period lead, then watched Vegas…
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The House Always Wins
Kelly McCrimmon does not build hockey teams like a nervous accountant. He builds them like a Vegas pit boss who knows when the table is cold, when the room needs…