News and events of some of our minor leagues. Lets support the kids!
Part 1 of Religion in Hockey More and more elite athletes are opening up about the role of religion in their chosen sport and recently also becoming vocal about their beliefs. One hockey player in this category is the longest serving current Windsor Spitfire OHL player and captain Saverio Posa. A quick look at ...
In the event of a full season lockout, teams could be at a crossroads when resigning players. But for some players with NHL contracts, there’s been an opportunity to play at the AHL level during the lockout. Depending on when free agency could begin, teams will not have a considerable amount of time to begin ...
A contingent of 5,131 fans were treated to a defensive stalemate at the Times Union Center, as the Adirondack Phantoms and Albany Devils butted heads for the third time this season. Each team has held serve on home ice thus far and this time around things tightened up for the I-87 rivals. Adirondack entered off ...
The first star of the game, number twenty-one, Bobby Robins! The crowd roars. Skating to the ice, beckoning for more applause, is a lone black-and-gold clad forward. The stadium responds in-kind, cheers rising to obscene decibel-levels. The thirty-one year-old Robins is no ordinary grinder. On this night Robins doesn’t drop the gloves. Almost comically, ...
Ben Duffy DOB: March 3, 1992 NHL Rights: N/A Drafted: Undrafted Height: 5’10″ Weight: 175 lbs Position: Centre Current Team: Prince-Edward-Island Rocket (QMJHL) Josh Currie DOB: October 29, 1992 NHL Rights: N/A Drafted: Undrafted Height: 5’11″ Weight: 190 lbs Position: Centre Current Team: Prince-Edward-Island Rocket (QMJHL) ...
It’s 5:30 PM on a chilly Saturday evening in early November, and I’m on 495 heading towards the shores of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The leaves that remain on the trees seem to know their days are numbered, as they’ve already turned from green to a mix of fiery orange and chimney red. This clearly isn’t ...
Stats are like a model in a bikini, they show a lot but not everything. Case in point, out shooting a team by a count of 44-16 and falling in a shootout. Alas it’s all about quality over quantity my friends. That turned out to be true as 5,324 turned out in Albany to watch ...
Taylor Hall finally got back on the ice and it didn’t take the young Oiler star long to make an impact in a Barons uniform. It took 38 seconds to be exact. Hall went out and scored on his first shift, tipping in a point shot from defenceman Colten Teubert en route to ...
Friday night, Providence Bruins goaltender Michael Hutchinson took home his fourth ‘L’ of the season in the Baby B’s 3-2 loss to the Worcester Sharks at the Dunk. With the seventeen-save performance, Hutch’s abysmal early-season numbers improved ever-so-slightly: Raising his save percentage to .838 and lowering his goals-against-average to 3.75. The P-Bruins’ de facto ...
The Providence Bruins’ struggles in the early season continued Friday, the team dropping their fifth contest of the first seven to open the season – this time to their hated rivals from up Rte. 146, the Worcester Sharks. The P-Bruins nearly completed a comeback, but Worcester goaltender Alex Stalock was solid when it mattered ...
