Posts About "Amanda Kessel"
Whitecaps Add Another Golden Gopher
July 18th, 2018 Beginning June 1, NWHL teams can start signing players for the 2018-19 season. For players who have completed their college eligibility and want to continue their hockey careers, the free agency period provides them an opportunity to continue playing at the highest level of professional women’s hockey. The fourth season of the NWHL...
Kessel Returns to Rivs, NWHL
June 4th, 2018 Beginning June 1, NWHL teams can re-sign players from their 2017-18 roster and their draft picks. Additionally, for those players who have completed their college eligibility and want to continue their hockey careers, NWHL Free Agency provides the best opportunity to continue playing at the highest level of professional women’s hockey....
Team USA Women's Roster & Preview for Winter OIympics
February 10th, 2018 The United States' women have not won an Olympic gold medal since the first Games to incorporate women's hockey back in 1998. For three Winter Games since they have settled for second best, and once even finished with the bronze (2006). Going so long without being at the top of the Olympic podium is borderline unsettling for the...
Phil Kessel - Biography
December 21st, 2017 Few players in the NHL have dealt with a rollercoaster-like career quite like the one Phil Kessel has. From being drafted high in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft to his battle with cancer and subsequent trade to the Toronto Maple Leafs, Kessel's career started off with as many peaks as it had valleys. After a tumultuous time in Toronto,...
NWHL Isobel Cup Playoffs Preview
March 14th, 2017 The Isobel Cup Playoffs start on Thursday in the first of two semifinal games, with the second coming on Friday. The winners of the two semis will face-off on Sunday in Lowell, Massachusetts where the NWHL will crown its second champion. Unlike last season’s format which was best-of-3 series, this season will be single elimination...
Anya Battaglino - Growing the NWHL One Day at a Time
February 9th, 2017 While there are millions of hockey fans internationally, there is a clear disconnect with fans of the NHL and the various other leagues around the world. Leagues like the KHL in Russia, Liiga in Finland and the SHL in Sweden, among others, boast some of the best talents in the entire world. Still, it's not hard to understand why most NHL...
