Articles by Shannon Valerio

Weekend Roundup

While Natives around the league quietly contributed in the pros, college and juniors this past weekend, a couple of noteworthy stories have hit the news wire. First, and unfortunately, Jordin Tootoo’s run-in with Alexandre Burrows has started to make the rounds, although not loudly enough. NJ.com has more detail on the situation, citing a post-game interview where Tootoo said that Burrows made disparaging remarks about his personal life and family. While details about what exactly was said [read more]

November 11, 2015

Got News? Reviews? Game Reports?

Native Hockey is looking for contributors that are willing to help this volunteer project.  Anything from writing NHL player bios to reporting on your local Native tournament to advertising tryouts we’re looking for content.  Feel free to comment here, or hit us up on Twitter or Facebook for breaking news that we shouldn’t miss!  As we revive our grassroots project, we want to be of the people FOR the people. Twitter:  www.twitter.com/nativehockey Facebook: [read more]

November 10, 2015

Native Hockey is Back!

Native Hockey is making a return to the internet.  With a new mission, we hope to bring you daily updates about what is going on in the world of Native hockey, along with special features.  From here, we hope to grow it out and facilitate the growth of Native hockey and hockey players in North America.  To that end, we will plan to develop opportunities for collaboration with our communities. Native Hockey has been active on and off since 1995, first as a personal web site by Shannon [read more]

October 27, 2015

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