The Colorado Avalanche have signed forward Jean-Luc Foudy to a three-year, entry-level contract. Foudy, 19, skated in 34 games with the AHL’s Colorado Eagles in 2020-21, collecting three goals and 11 assists for 14 points and finishing fourth on the club in scoring. He added one assist in two postseason games. A native of Scarborough,
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Captain Brad Malone buried a rebound 7:36 into overtime to send the Bakersfield Condors into the Pacific Division Finals with a 2-1 win over San Diego on Monday evening. Following back-to-back come-from-behind OT wins to eliminate the Gulls, the Condors will take on the Henderson Silver Knights in a best-of-three series for the division championship.
Robert Esche was 12 years old when he first played hockey in 1990. Though he had to wait a year until he could play the position that would lead to a six-year NHL career and 13-year pro career in the sport. “My coach would not let me go into the net until I learned how
The Bakersfield Condors rallied for a 3-2 overtime win over San Diego on Sunday evening, sending their Pacific Division semifinal series to a decisive Game 3 on Monday. Seth Griffith scored off a feed from Adam Cracknell just 49 seconds into the extra period to complete the comeback from a late third-period deficit and tie
Danny O’Regan notched two goals and an assist to lead Henderson to a 4-2 win over San Jose on Sunday afternoon, sending the Silver Knights into the Pacific Division Finals on the strength of a two-game sweep of the Barracuda. Henderson will host the winner of the other semifinal series between San Diego and Bakersfield
Bringing Max Fortunus back as an assistant coach with the Texas Stars just made sense, general manager Scott White said Thursday. After all, the recently retired Fortunus was like a coach during his playing days and, at age 37, carries a ton of experience. “Timing is everything in our game, and the timing is right,”
Sam Carrick scored two of San Diego’s three power-play goals, Trevor Zegras notched four points in his playoff debut and the Gulls withstood a furious Condors rally to hold on for a 5-3 win in Game 1 of their Pacific Division semifinal series in Bakersfield. The teams meet in Game 2 of the best-of-three series
Jack Dugan and Pavel Dorofeyev provided the offense and fellow rookie Logan Thompson stopped 22 shots as Henderson defeated San Jose, 4-1, in Game 1 of their Pacific Division semifinal series in Las Vegas on Friday night. The Silver Knights take a 1-0 lead into Game 2 of the best-of-three series on Sunday afternoon (4:00
The Seattle Kraken have hired Troy Bodie as Director of Hockey and Business Operations for their AHL franchise in Palm Springs, California, that is scheduled to begin play in 2022-23. “Troy brings hockey experience to our organization as both a former player and having spent the last six seasons as both an NHL pro scout
The Dallas Stars have appointed Maxime Fortunus as assistant coach of the Texas Stars, their top development affiliate in the American Hockey League. Fortunus joins assistant coach Travis Morin and video coach Patrick Dolan on head coach Neil Graham’s staff. “We are thrilled to bring Max back to the Texas Stars as an assistant coach,”
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … San Diego Gulls forward Andrew Poturalski and Bakersfield Condors forward Cooper Marody have won the American Hockey League’s two prestigious offensive awards for the 2020-21 season. Poturalski has won the the John B. Sollenberger Trophy as the leading point-getter in the AHL, while Marody has captured the Willie Marshall Award as the
The San Jose Barracuda got 32 saves from Josef Korenar and defeated the Colorado Eagles, 5-1, at FivePoint Arena at Great Park Ice in Irvine, Calif., on Wednesday night. With its second win in as many days during the play-in portion of the Pacific Division playoffs, San Jose advances to the best-of-three semifinals where they
ROCKFORD — The Rockford IceHogs fell 3-1 to Chicago in the season finale on Saturday, bringing to a close the shortest — and most unusual — season in the organization’s history. With COVID-19 restrictions in place throughout the league, the Hogs battled on the ice and off it in an effort to accomplish what everyone in the
Justin Barron scored off an odd-man rush nine minutes into overtime to give the Colorado Eagles a 5-4 win over the Ontario Reign in a back-and-forth affair on Tuesday night at FivePoint Arena at Great Park Ice in Irvine, Calif. Colorado will face San Jose on Wednesday night with a trip to the Pacific Division
Southern California native Jake McGrew scored with 10:42 left in the third period, breaking a tie and sending the San Jose Barracuda to a 2-1 win over the Tucson Roadrunners in their Pacific Division play-in game in Irvine, Calif., on Tuesday afternoon. The Barracuda, who finished fourth in the Pacific during the regular season, will
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League has announced the schedule for the start of the Pacific Division playoff tournament. All seven teams are participating in the tournament to determine the 2020-21 division championship. The fourth- through seventh-place clubs in the regular-season standings are playing a single-elimination play-in, held at FivePoint Arena at Great Park Ice in
“Looking back, it was definitely the best thing that happened to me.” He’s the reigning Hart and Art Ross Trophy winner and one of the top players in the National Hockey League. But there was a point earlier in Edmonton Oilers star Leon Draisaitl’s career when such hardware and distinctions couldn’t have looked farther away. His