USA Hockey Continues Olympic Prep with Deutschland Cup
Earlier this month, USA Hockey set their roster for the 2017 Deutschland Cup from Nov. 10-12 in Augsburg, Germany. This roster will largely match the one put together for the…
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USA Hockey Continues Prep for 2018 Olympics
The regular season in the Canadian Hockey League’s three leagues got underway this past weekend. The NHL preseason is in full swing and nearing its culmination. AHL training camps started…
2017 Development Cup Sees Two National Teams Debut
September 29, 2017, will be a day of birth and rebirth of sorts. For the first time ever, Andorra’s men’s national ice hockey team will take to the ice in…
Ontario Reign, Eisbären Berlin to Faceoff in AEG Family Affair
Midseason exhibition games are virtually unheard of in North American pro hockey, but that won’t stop the American Hockey League’s Ontario Reign from hosting Eisbären Berlin of the German Deutsche…
USA Hockey Looks to Medal with Unfamiliar Names
Now that University of Wisconsin Men’s Hockey Head Coach, Tony Granato, has been named to the same position with the United States men’s team for the 2018 Winter Olympics, the…
Nolan Ready for New Challenge in Poland
Coaching is what Ted Nolan loves to do. He has found a way to be around hockey all of his life and he has recently taken that next step by…
Dotchin’s Compete Should Equal NHL Success
Much like Tampa Bay Lightning forward Yanni Gourde’s recent two-year contract extension, defenseman Jake Dotchin’s recent success has earned him his own two-year, one-way extension. The deal carries an $812,500…
Yanni Gourde Earned His Lightning Contract
Some players like Steven Stamkos or Brayden Point jump straight from Major Junior to the National Hockey League and some take a couple years of grooming in the American Hockey…
Lightning Prospect Ben Thomas
The 2017 NHL Entry Draft has come and gone and the Tampa Bay Lightning selected six players to fill their prospect ranks. While most, if not all, of those six…
KHL Medvescak Zagreb Moving Back to Move Forward
With their return to the Ersta Bank Eishockey Liga (EBEL), KHL Medvescak Zagreb appears to be living the latest version of Back to the Future. The club spent the last…
Lightning & Crunch Have a Promising Future
Tyler Johnson, Andrej Sustr, Richard Panik, Ondrej Palat, Vladislav Namestnikov, Brett Connolly, Radko Gudas. These names are familiar to most if not all hockey fans. While they may not still…
Hockey Down Under – Life as an AIHL Import
The life of an expat playing in the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) can be pretty fun but it is not always easy. Every northern hemisphere summer a handful of North…