EDMONTON — Hockey has taken Manitoba’s Derek Laxdal all over the world, producing a resumé that is as impressive as it is long. HE’S BEEN EVERYWHERE, MAN A look at Derek Laxdal’s extensive playing and coaching career: PLAYER:1982-83 — Portland Winter Hawks, WHL1983-84 — Brandon Wheat Kings, WHL1984-85 — Brandon Wheat Kings click to read
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Denis Gurianov, an AHL All-Star with the Texas Stars a year ago, scored with 3:36 gone in overtime on Monday night to give the Dallas Stars the Western Conference championship and secure a berth in the 2020 Stanley Cup Final. Dallas defeated Vegas, 3-2, to win the series four games to one. Gurianov played 190
Amazingly, there are currently nine coaches in the NHL who all spent time with WBS. In addition to Pittsburgh’s staff of Mike Sullivan, Todd Reirden and Mike Vellucci, there is Michel Therrien (Philadelphia); Mike Yeo (Philadelphia); Todd Richards (Tampa Bay); Dan Bylsma (Detroit); John Hynes (Nashville); and Alain Nasreddine (New Jersey). Four of those coaches
The Rochester Americans announced today that Adam Mair and Mike Weber have been named assistant coaches on the staff of head coach Seth Appert. Mair, 41, has spent the past five seasons as a player development coach with the Buffalo Sabres, and spent part of the 2019-20 season as an interim assistant coach for Rochester’s
The Seattle Kraken on Wednesday announced the organization’s plans for a state-of-the-art sports and entertainment arena for southern California’s Coachella Valley, which will serve as the home of the Kraken’s American Hockey League franchise beginning in 2022. The project includes an adjacent training facility and community gathering spaces and will be privately funded and erected
The Bakersfield Condors have signed defenseman Ryan Stanton to a one-year contract. Stanton returns to Bakersfield as he enters his 11th pro season in 2020-21; the native of St. Albert, Alta., skated for the Condors from 2017-19. Stanton appeared in 36 games for the AHL’s Ontario Reign in 2019-20, collecting two goals and three assists.
The Arizona Coyotes have signed goaltender Adin Hill to a one-year, one-way contract. Hill, 24, has split each of the last three seasons between Arizona and its AHL affiliate, the Tucson Roadrunners. In 2019-20, he went 15-5-0 in 20 appearances for Tucson, with a 2.40 goals-against average and a career-best .918 save percentage. He was
Article content continued Nonetheless, for the first time in three decades, since his playing days in junior hockey, September has arrived without Bouchard preparing, or participating in, training camp. Perhaps that has created a void, but Bouchard always has been able to adapt and adjust to various situations. This one’s no different. “There’s not much
J.D. Forrest had done such a tremendous job in his four seasons as Wilkes-Barre/Scranton assistant coach that other teams were starting to take notice. So it made perfect sense for the Penguins to promote him to head coach after Mike Vellucci was named an assistant coach with Pittsburgh. The Penguins are confident that Forrest’s familiarity
The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Adam Cracknell to a one-year, two-way contract for the 2020-21 season. Entering his 15th pro season, Cracknell has played 530 regular-season games in the AHL with Omaha, Quad City, Peoria, Chicago, Springfield, Hartford, Laval, Toronto and San Diego, totaling 144 goals and 165 assists for 309 points. He established
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins announced today that J.D. Forrest has been named head coach and Jason Karmanos will serve as general manager of the club. Forrest, 39, takes over as head coach after four seasons as an assistant with the Penguins. He previously spent one season coaching in Austria and was an assistant for the U.S.
The Chicago Wolves and Charlotte Checkers both announced new National Hockey League affiliation agreements on Thursday. The Wolves have entered into a three-year partnership with the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, while the Checkers have reached a multi-year agreement to serve as the top development club for the NHL’s Florida Panthers. Both affiliations begin with the upcoming
Bob Goodman played youth hockey at Hersheypark Arena and attended countless Hershey Bears games growing up. Goodman never realized his boyhood dream to be an NHL player, but in Hershey, he forged a path where hockey became his life’s work anyway. “I’ve been officiating in the AHL since 1992 – for nearly 30 years,” Goodman,
The Laval Rocket have re-signed forward Kevin Lynch to an American Hockey League contract for the 2020-21 season. After missing the entire 2018-19 season due to injury, Lynch appeared in 54 games for the Rocket in 2019-20, notching seven goals and 14 assists for 21 points. In 208 regular-season AHL contests over parts of five
Bruce Cassidy of the Boston Bruins has been voted the 2019-20 recipient of the Jack Adams Award as “the NHL coach adjudged to have contributed the most to his team’s success.” Cassidy, a former head coach with the AHL’s Grand Rapids Griffins and Providence Bruins, becomes the seventh person ever to win both the Jack
EDMONTON — Luke Schenn has never been this close to getting his hands on the Stanley Cup. Across 12 NHL seasons, with stints in Toronto, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Arizona, Anaheim, Vancouver and now Tampa Bay, the veteran defenceman had only appeared in 12 career playoff games before this summer. However, it is the games Schenn
SUNRISE, Fla. — Bill Zito believes there’s only one way to do things in life. No matter what you’re doing, you must always give it everything you’ve got. Introduced as the new general manager of the Florida Panthers on Wednesday afternoon at BB&T Center, Zito will have no shortage of work to do in the
This isn’t the first time Joel Kiviranta has surprised people. The scrappy forward was one of the depth invitees to training camp for the Finnish National Team’s World Championship entry in the spring of 2019, and to be honest, not many had him making the final roster. “When we had training camp, he came to