Brion O'Connor, Author at New England Hockey Journal

“The magic bullet is that there is no magic bullet.” — Old running proverb With the start of the high school season,…

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Goalies are different. The position itself is unique, but so are the players. And so is the recruitment process. “It’s apples and…

When Dave Flint’s Northeastern Huskies entered the Women’s Hockey East playoffs last spring, they were a .500 team (11-11-2 in WHE). In…

During Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final, I was multi-tasking, trying to get some work done while watching the Washington Capitals…

Goalie equipment pioneer Mike Vaughn had no illusions of grandeur when he was growing up in Michigan in the 1970s and ‘80s.…

The tale of Wilf Cude is legendary within goaltending circles, and for good reason, especially among old-school netminders who have an appreciation…

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At the risk of dating myself (yet again), I was recently thinking back to my heyday of the 1970s and ‘80s, when…

I absolutely love playoff hockey, especially postseason college hockey. No knock on the National Hockey League playoffs, which are great, but the…

As an unabashed fan of hockey in general, and women’s hockey specifically, I always look forward to the Winter Olympics. Sure, the…

Sigh! Seems like every time I want to focus on a basic goaltending topic — from techniques to game preparation — something…