Profile of Robin Short

Biography

Robin Short is The Telegram's Sports Editor. One of the newspaper's senior citizens (despite his youthful appearance), he has worked at The Telegram for 24 years. He is a two-time winner of the Atlantic Journalism Award for sports reporting and is author of Rock Stars: Team Gushue's Road to Gold. You can reach Robin at rshort@thetelegram.com

All articles of Robin Short

• For the love of the game
  The Canadian kids lining up to receive their third-place trinkets Thursday evening were gracious, to be sure, but the manufactured smiles ...
• IceCaps doing the blueice shuffle
  With his Grand Falls-Windsor Cataracts not due back on the ice from their Christmas break until next weekend, Newfoundland Senior Hockey League ...
• Marlies hand IceCaps a rare road loss
  The St. John's IceCaps came up short by one victory of establishing a new American Hockey League record, dropping a 3-1 decision to the Toronto ...
• And then there were two
  There's no X adjacent to his name on the American Hockey League's official web site, a designation reserved for players no longer with the ...
• IceCaps in better cheer heading into holidays
  With Christmas just around the corner, maybe the St. John’s IceCaps were in the spirit of giving in Saturday night’s shootout loss to the Pirates ...
• Groomed for battle
  Garth Murray was 15, new to major junior hockey and the Regina Pats' training camp. He was scrimmaging with the team's other youngsters, and ...
• Adam leads all NHLers from Newfoundland in scoring
  A quick look at how the 2011-12 season is going for the seven Newfoundlanders in the National Hockey League (in alphabetical order):Luke AdamThe ...
• Sharks go back for seconds against IceCaps
  It’s not often a hockey coach can’t wait to hit the bricks for a road trip, but that’s probably what is going through Keith McCambridge’s mind ...
• Worcester rally from two goal deficit to beat...
  The St. John's IceCaps coughed up a two-goal, second-period lead in a 4-3 loss to the Worcester Sharks in an American Hockey League game before ...
• Rumours of glory
  Sssshhhh! Listen up. You hear them? The whispers and buzz of the Mile One faithful, the 6,300 or so who routinely fill the rink for a St. ...
• They have tough jobs, but coaches love their work
  The NHL's coaching carousel kicked into high gear this week, par for the course in pro game, where you're hired to be fired, as they say. ...
• Practice injury puts Holzapfel on the shelf for...
  The St. John’s IceCaps have lost Riley Holzapfel for at least three weeks after the forward was hit in the face by a puck Monday in practice.The ...
• MUN's varsity teams need more respect … from MUN
  In the United States, college sports — specifically football and basketball — rank just behind the National Football League, that country’s true ...
• IceCaps less than middling in the middle
  It was shaping up to be one delicious, entertaining matchup between two of the American Hockey League’s top teams for while there Saturday night, ...
• Marlies take OT win
  Jeff Finger's goal with 18 seconds to go in overtime gave the Toronto Marlies a hard-fought 4-3 win over the St. John's IceCaps in American ...
• Aebischer isn’t retired, but hasn’t worked much...
  To find David Aebischer’s stats in the National Hockey League’s 2012 Guide and Record Book, you have to flip all the way to the back pages, to ...
• Everything’s better about hockey... except the...
  The average size of a National Hockey League player today is 203 pounds, on a 6-1 frame. Yet they skate like they’re 5-8. They are bigger, ...
• An education in ice making
  The St. John’s IceCaps are hoping the National Hockey League’s ice guru can bring the same magic touch to Mile One Centre he once did with the ...
• Mannino makes his case in IceCaps' crease competition
  Two's company and three may be a crowd, but Peter Mannino and Eddie Pasquale are starting to make some elbow room for themselves in the ...
• IceCaps’ Rosa comes by his work ethic honestly
  They immigrated to Canada in the early 1970s, a young married couple, he from Italy and she from Spain.They made their way to Montreal, where ...
• Habs’ brass, not Pearn, to blame for poor start
  There ya go, the problem that had the Montreal Canadiens all bound up through the early going of the new NHL season had nothing to do with the ...
• Klingberg leads St. John's IceCaps to second...
  The Winnipeg Jets' return of Mark Scheifele to junior hockey Sunday isn't expected to have any affect on the St. John's IceCaps roster. With ...
• Game melts away for IceCaps
  Jeremy Colliton’s deflection past goaltender Peter Mannino at 2:44 of overtime lifted the Bridgeport Sound Tigers to a 4-3 American Hockey League ...
• For Gretzky, life can’t be easy when he finds...
  Ever wonder what it’s like to be an exotic animal in a zoo, like a Bengal tiger or giant panda or something? People staring and blathering on, ...
• Gretzky still ‘just a hockey guy’
  Nattily dressed, as always, Wayne Gretzky takes his seat in the big, green leather chair to the left of former New Brunswick premier Frank ...
• Danny Williams and Glenn Stanford combined their...
  One’s the rock star, the other is the producer. Danny Williams is centre stage, bright lights. Glenn Stanford is the man just off to the right, ...
• Tip your Cap
  Six years, five months and 21 days since St. John’s and Newfoundland and Labrador hockey fans last saw an official American Hockey League game, ...
• Fun, fellowship and the absurdity
  Hockey Canada comes up with the gimmicky slogans, like “Relax, it’s just a game,” reminding parents that, well, it’s just a game. Hockey’s ...
• King on the wing
  In the third period of Sunday afternoon’s American Hockey League friendly between the homestanding St. John’s IceCaps and Norfolk Admirals, the ...
• Greening credits ‘a lot of hard work’ for his...
  So what’s the secret with Colin Greening?No one can be that perfect, can they? Tall, handsome, personable. Captain of the college hockey team. ...