For every NHL team, prospects are always coming and going. As they finish off their junior, college careers or make the jump over from their European leagues, they all have the same goal, to someday leave their mark on the NHL. The pressure and attention surrounding these players is magnified if they are going to
ESPN News Services Jan 15, 2024, 09:43 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ST. PAUL, Minn. — Marc-Andre Fleury took sole possession of second place with his 552nd win in the NHL, posting his 74th career shutout as the Minnesota Wild defeated the New York Islanders 5-0 on Monday. Joel Eriksson Ek scored twice on special
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Chicago Wolves goaltender Adam Scheel has been selected as the Howies Hockey Tape/AHL Player of the Week for the period ending January 14, 2024. Scheel turned aside 56 of 58 shots over two starts to backstop the Wolves to consecutive road wins over his former
A tired Vancouver Canucks team had its five-game winning streak snuffed out by the Columbus Blue Jackets in a shootout Monday afternoon. Kirill Marchenko scored the only goal in a four-round shootout to lift the Blue Jackets to the 4-3 win. The single point earned by Vancouver moved the team atop the NHL standings, for
The Vancouver Canucks have had some rough luck with high picks. They narrowly missed out on selecting Gilbert Perrault first overall in their inaugural draft, traded away Rick Vaive, Bill Derlago, and Cam Neely before they became stars, and whiffed on several top picks in the late 1980s and 1990s. So when top-prospect Cody Hodgson
Elvis Merzlikins made news when he met the media in Columbus on Friday after not playing for several games. After backstopping the Blue Jackets to a 4-3 shootout win over the Vancouver Canucks on Monday, he clarified his comments. Merzlikins has requested a trade from the Blue Jackets. On Friday, Merzlikins said that there was
Associated Press Jan 15, 2024, 04:39 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DENVER — Colorado Avalanche forward Valeri Nichushkin has entered the NHL/NHLPA player assistance program and will be away from the team for an indefinite amount of time. The league and union announced Monday that Nichushkin will return to the Avalanche once he’s cleared by
Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Carsen Twarynski wanted back in. After a career-best 17-goal season and a trip to the Calder Cup Finals, it would have seemed a given for Twarynski to secure another AHL opportunity. Instead, that chance never came. The months passed by, and Twarynski kept waiting. By the end of September, he
Toronto police said Monday they’ve charged a 37-year-old man after video surfaced on social media of a security guard putting their knee on someone’s head following a Toronto Maple Leafs game Saturday. The video shows a security guard at Scotiabank Arena apprehending a man and kneeing them in the face as they restrain him, before holding his head down on the
In a back-and-forth game, the San Jose Sharks took a brutal 5-4 loss to the Ottawa Senators on Saturday (Jan. 13) afternoon, allowing the winning goal with just four seconds remaining in the third period. They deserve credit for their resilience and keeping the game close despite being outplayed for most of the contest. However,
The Vancouver Canucks have played 43 games so far and they have climbed to the summit of the NHL’s proverbial mountain. As of this writing, they sit first in the NHL with 61 points and their 29 wins are the most they have had in January since their Stanley Cup run in 2011. Needless to
Associated Press Jan 14, 2024, 08:59 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland — Former NHL forward Terry Ryan celebrated his 47th birthday with a fist-flying return to professional hockey, dropping the gloves and fighting Sunday for the Newfoundland Growlers in the ECHL. Playing professionally for the first time in some 20 years, Ryan
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League’s Player Safety Committee today announced that Belleville Senators forward Bokondji Imama and Toronto Marlies forward Kyle Clifford have each been suspended for three (3) games as a consequence of their actions in a game between the teams on Jan. 12. Imama will miss Belleville’s games Sunday (Jan. 14)
Rick Bowness of the Winnipeg Jets and Rick Tocchet of the Vancouver Canucks will join Boston’s Jim Montgomery and Peter Laviolette of the New York Rangers as head coaches at the NHL all-star game in Toronto. The league issued a news release Sunday saying the head coaches of teams with the highest points percentage in
A lot of names that you would see while touring the Hockey Hall of Fame had big moments on Jan. 8. A pair of all-time greats made their National Hockey League debuts, some impressive streaks were extended, and the year 2000 gave us quite the evening on this date. Let’s fire up our daily hockey
Obviously, during his 2016 draft year, Kieffer Bellows was seen as a promising forward. The New York Islanders thought highly enough of him to choose him in the first round (19th overall) of the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. But, since Bellows turned professional, he’s taken a bit of a pilgrimage around the American Hockey League
Field Level Media Jan 14, 2024, 01:33 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Jim Montgomery of the Boston Bruins (Atlantic Division), Rick Bowness of the Winnipeg Jets (Central), Peter Laviolette of the New York Rangers (Metropolitan) and Rick Tocchet of the Vancouver Canucks (Pacific) will serve as the head coaches for the 2024 NHL All-Star Weekend,
by Brock Ormond | AHL On The Beat The Belleville Senators are building for the future and the present while looking to reload the NHL parent club, and they are leaning on Zack Ostapchuk to be part of that process. The St. Albert, Alta., native was selected in the second round, 39th overall, by the