Although he had only one assist, Matthew Tkachuk had 10 shots on goal as the London Knights breezed to a Memorial Cup-opening 6-2 victory Friday over the host Red Deer Rebels. Three of the brightest young prospects in hockey did nothing to dim their stars Friday in the opening game [...]
Columbus Blue Jackets' GM Jarmo Kekäläinen, a native of Finland and the first European GM in the NHL, would love to draft either of Finnish right wingers Patrik Laine or Jesse Puljujarvi on June 24 in Buffalo. Wearing a Maple Leaf jersey, anticipated first overall pick Auston Matthews is on the cover of [...]
The Maple Leafs will have the first shot at the Terrific Trio when the 2016 NHL entry draft begins June 24 in Buffalo. Toronto’s name was drawn first today in the league’s annual draft lottery, held to discourage sadsack teams from tanking late in a season to sweeten their draft position. The [...]
The stubborn Finns refused to submit to the Americans, upsetting their hosts 4-2 Saturday in the first of two semi-finals final at Grand Forks, North Dakota, in the IIHL Under18 hockey championship tournament. Center Aapeli Rasanen, who scored twice, potted the winning goal with 37 seconds left to thwart the two-time defending USA and move [...]
An RFA after the season ends, is Seth Griffith doing enough to earn a new contract from the Boston Bruins? With the AHL regular season ending Sunday, it appears Boston prospect Seth Griffith will finish second in league scoring, and that’s not the only promising news for the NHL Bruins. Entering today’s [...]
Quinnipiac’s David will challenge North Dakota’s Goliath today for NCAA Division I men’s hockey supremacy as the Frozen Four has become a one-game, winner-take-all confrontation. Although the Bobcats are in their second championship game in the past four years, they have never won the national title. Conversely, the mighty Fighting Hawks are competing [...]
Pittsburgh Penguins’ GM Jim Rutherford required medical treatment April 1 for a serious case of writer’s cramp after a busy contract-signing March. Perhaps moving away from the team’s heritage of gaudy free-agent signings, Rutherford inked forward prospects Scott Wilson, Tom Kühnhackl and Bryan Rust in a one-day paperwork frenzy March 14. Affordable contract [...]
The final eight NCAA men’s hockey squads, minus top bracket seeds St. Cloud State and Providence, are set to battle Sunday for Frozen Four glory after two days of intense competition. The top overall-seeded Quinnipiac Bobcats play the Massachusetts-Lowell River Hawks in the East final at the Times Union Center in Albany, N.Y., the [...]
Dylan Strome of the OHL's Erie Otters and the crown jewel in the Arizona Coyotes' pipeline is the top-ranked prospect in the 2016 Future Watch. If your favorite NHL team hasn’t made the playoffs for awhile and shows no inclination to do so, Future Watch might cheer you up with its annual update of [...]
Clarkson junior defenseman James de Haas topped all NCAA Division 1 men’s hockey Stars of the Week. The Canadian native from Mississauga, Ont., led the Golden Knights to a sweep of Princeton in the first round of the ECAC hockey playoffs by scoring twice in overtime. Friday night, de Haas scored just one minute [...]
