Welcome, readers of The Athletic, to the first of many every-so-often mailbags I intend to write in the coming months and years and millennia. You all submitted scores of questions, and I'll get to as ...

A hockey goal is so unlike scoring in any other major American sport. It doesn’t happen nearly as frequently as in basketball, or with the gradual march down the field in football. Even a home run ...

Have you noticed the goal horn that goes off for your favorite NHL team lately? Maybe you didn't notice because you're too busy celebrating the goal that's scored, and that's the right move. But if ...

The NHL is notorious for its goal horns, but find out which teams owned the best of all-time. NHL goal horns are a staple when it relates to celebrations in professional sports. It seems that hockey’s ...

ST. LOUIS — By first grade, most kids can recite alphabet from memory. But 6-year-old St. Louisan Sam DeMerit can do all those kids one better. He has memorized the distinct sound to every single NHL ...

Detroit — Leave it to Red Wings fans. Famously knowledgeable about the hockey they watch — just ask the players, over the years — many also have keenly developed ears, it turns out. And they ...

Fans attending Blackhawks games at the United Center look at the video board, hear the game horn and gaze adoringly at the ice. But they don’t know who programs the video board or how it’s done, who ...