Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Sources

This is a list of sources commonly used in ice hockey–related articles.

Inclusion on this list is not an inherent indication of reliability.

Legend
Sources which have been covered by WP:RSP, WP:NPPSG, or WT:HOCKEY are marked with the relevant symbol.


 * Yes Check Circle.svg Generally reliable in its areas of expertise
 * Achtung-orange.svg No consensus, unclear, or additional considerations apply
 * Argentina - NO symbol.svg Generally unreliable

History

 * Sports Illustrated vault – All back-issues of Sports Illustrated
 * Backcheck: A Hockey Retrospective – Historical hockey articles preserved by the Canadian National Archives
 * Hockey Draft Central – Detailed information about hockey drafts and players selected; information about all players drafted from 1963–1984

Statistics

 * Elite Prospects – Up-to-date stats and information, excellent for European players, as well as for information on junior leagues below major junior; owned by Swedish sports media company Everysport Group
 * Eurohockey.com – Lots of international stats
 * Hockey Archives – Europe; in English and French
 * The Internet Hockey Database (Hockey DB) – many levels of North American hockey, some coverage of international play
 * Hockey-Reference.com – NHL; Primarily stats, but includes detailed analytics and league-leaders information, as well as information about salaries, transactions and jersey numbers
 * Sports Forecaster – NHL; up-to-date statistical information, including a day-by-day transaction record for all teams, player and trade assessments, and logs of news articles for individual players on transactions and injuries

North America

 * The Hockey News – Canada-based magazine; 1947–present
 * – US-based; mostly stories via wire service
 * – US-based wire service
 * – US-based sports website owned by The New York Times; 2016–present
 * The Canadian Press – Canada-based wire service; articles accessible via other news sites
 * – Canada-based
 * CBS Sports – US-based division of
 * EP Rinkside – prose division of statistics website Elite Prospects posting news and game reports from NHL and men's amateur leagues; owned by Swedish sports media company Everysport Group
 * – Canada-based news company
 * – Canada-based national newspaper
 * – US-based
 * The Ice Garden – US-based women's hockey website; independent, originally affiliated with SB Nation
 * NBC Sports – US-based division of
 * – US-based sports blogging network
 * theScore – Canada-based news and gambling website
 * – India-based website publishing NHL-related articles
 * Sportsnet – Canada-based
 * The Sports Network (TSN) – Canada-based
 * – US-based business/economic international newspaper

NCAA

 * College Hockey News
 * US College Hockey Online

Czechia

 * Deník – newspaper with regional divisions; published by Vltava Labe Media
 * Sportmanie – website
 * – website operated by Mafra
 * Forbes Czech – division of Forbes; publishes some wire service pieces from the Czech News Agency (ČTK)

Finland

 * Yle
 * Iltalehti
 * Ilta-Sanomat
 * MTV Uutiset

Germany

 * 

Sweden

 * Sportbladet – division of Aftonbladet, a Stockholm-based national newspaper
 * Hockeysverige
 * Expressen – national newspaper
 * HockeyNews.se
 * SVT Sport – division of Sveriges Television
 * Dagens Nyheter – Stockholm-based national newspaper
 * Göteborgs-Posten – Gothenburg-based national newspaper

Switzerland

 * Swiss newspaper archives (in German)

Non-independent sources
These sources are not independent, meaning they are closely affiliated with teams and leagues. These sources cannot be used to establish notability.


 * USA Hockey Magazine – affiliated with USA Hockey
 * NHL.com – NHL league website and team websites; note that the website has gone through many changes, often necessitating the Internet Archive to access older articles

Academic journals

 * Sport in Society – journal published by Taylor & Francis
 * The International Journal of the History of Sport – journal published by Taylor & Francis
 * European Sport Management Quarterly – journal published by Taylor & Francis
 * Sociology of Sport Journal – journal of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport; published by Human Kinetics
 * Canadian Journal of Sociology – journal published by the University of Alberta; ceased publication in 2022
 * Journal of Sport and Social Issues – journal of Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society

Miscellaneous

 * The Goaltender Home Page Very detailed information about goalies since 1994.
 * Hockey Hall of Fame Search for players by team, position, place of birth, or points.
 * The Players Tribune – first-person stories
 * Hockey in Society – blog including work by subject-matter experts (use with discretion)