On Saturday, the Pittsburgh Penguins made a somewhat surprising signing, as they gave goaltender Brad Thiessen a new one-year deal. Thiessen was a restricted free agent and had not received a qualifying offer. After winning the Baz Bastien Award as the AHL’s outstanding goaltender in 2011, Thiessen struggled with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins this past season. [...]
The American Hockey League made another step towards catching up with the NHL during their recent Board of Governors meetings, which concluded on Thursday. The board decided to introduce video replay in each AHL arena for the 2012-13 season. The new system will have overheard cameras installed at each goal net and a monitor at [...]
As the the WHL’s regular season rapidly approaches, another annual rite is upon us – taking stock of over-age players. The Western Hockey League allows its member clubs a maximum of three over-age players, players who will turn 20 during the course of the season. For the purposes of the 2012-13 WHL season, any player [...]
The Canadian Hockey League held its annual import draft Wednesday morning and the Western Hockey League members picked up a total of 28 players from overseas that they hope to see in action this winter. If you are not familiar with the import draft, each team in the CHL is allowed to carry two import [...]
Now that the NHL Entry Draft has come and gone it is time to focus on the next crop of stars waiting for their chance to wear an NHL sweater. Hockey Canada recently announced the 40 young men invited to their National Men’s Summer Under-18 Team selection camp to be held in Toronto in August. [...]
Although the NHL was swept up by draft excitement during this past week, that doesn’t mean teams have lost their focus on next year’s roster or taking inventory of their prospect systems prior to adding new players over the weekend. On Tuesday, Penguins beat writer Dave Molinari of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported on Twitter that [...]
For the 12th straight season, ECHL alumni were part of the Stanley Cup winning organization. The Los Angeles Kings went on an extraordinary run, losing only four games while bringing the Cup home to California. One of the main reasons for the Kings success was the stellar play of goaltender Jonathan Quick, who also won [...]
When a player comes into the OHL as the second overall pick in the Priority Selection, he comes in with incredible expectations. Just missing out on winning the Jack Ferguson Award as the first overall choice means that he has talent so superlative that he could have also been picked at the top of the [...]
Hello, readers! I just wanted to take some time to introduce myself. My name is Alison Myers, but you can just call me Ali if you’d like. I am already a correspondent for The Hockey Writers, covering the New Jersey Devils. However, I have joined The Combine to cover the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the AHL [...]
