Ian Kennedy
Ian Kennedy covers hockey with sustained attention to women’s professional leagues, race and sport, and the culture surrounding the game. He writes regular hockey analysis and features for Yahoo Sports and The Hockey News, and extends that work through books on racism in sport and the history of women’s hockey.
Women’s hockey and PWHL expansion
Kennedy treats women’s hockey as a major professional beat rather than a niche, with coverage that follows league structures, expansion, and player movement in detail.
His work on Professional Women’s Hockey League expansion, including the mechanics of master negotiation lists and roster rules, focuses on how policy decisions shape competitive balance and player opportunity rather than only on headline signings. He brings the same lens to women’s hockey history in his book “Ice In Their Veins: Women’s Relentless Pursuit of the Puck,” which traces the long fight for recognition, resources, and equality in the women’s game. That long-view perspective feeds back into his current reporting, where stories about new franchises or league milestones sit alongside the barriers and structural inequities that still define the sport.
Race, sport, and hockey culture
A defining strand in Kennedy’s work is his focus on race, power, and culture in sport. His book “On Account of Darkness: Shining Light on Race and Sport” examines how racism and exclusion are embedded in sporting institutions, offering a historical and systemic account rather than individual anecdotes.
In conversation about racism in Canadian sport, he is described as a critical sports journalist whose work interrogates the harms of established hockey culture and the ways it can be changed. At Yahoo Sports he has reported on events around the NHL that cut against league diversity and inclusion goals, including a piece on a Jordan Peterson show at an NHL-owned venue that he framed as directly opposing the league’s equity efforts and grounded in expert analysis. Across this strand of his coverage, he treats hockey culture as a subject in itself: decisions by teams, venues, and sponsors are reported not only for their business impact but for what they signal about who is welcome in the sport and on what terms.
From local sports network to national hockey analysis
Kennedy’s reporting style is shaped by years spent building and running a local sports outlet focused on both amateur and professional athletes. As founder of the Chatham-Kent Sports Network, he developed a practice of treating community players and small-club stories with the same seriousness as major-league coverage, tracking careers from local rinks and fields to higher levels of competition.
That background now informs his national hockey analysis, where league-wide stories often connect back to development pathways, minor hockey structures, and the experiences of players outside the spotlight. Beyond hockey, his bylines in outlets such as Outdoor Canada and other specialist publications show an ability to report on sport and outdoor pursuits with clear, straightforward storytelling rooted in the participants’ lived experience.
The result is coverage that moves easily between big-picture league issues and the ground-level realities of athletes and communities.
Books and long-form storytelling on sport’s power structures
Kennedy’s books and long-form projects extend his daily reporting into deeper examinations of how sport distributes power and opportunity.
“On Account of Darkness” builds a narrative of race and sport that combines historical cases with contemporary consequences, making clear how policies and norms in sport affect who gets to play and succeed. “Ice In Their Veins” does similar work for women’s hockey, documenting both on-ice achievements and off-ice battles for recognition, pay, and institutional support.
These projects reinforce patterns visible in his articles: an emphasis on structural analysis, careful attention to marginalized athletes, and an insistence that stories about schedules, events, or venues are also stories about equity and access. For sources, teams, and organizations, his work tends to highlight how decisions intersect with race, gender, and inclusion in hockey, rather than treating those dimensions as background.
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