hockey

And, yes, they've gotten better in literal hockey skill, but their mental fortitude continues to impress. That applied doubly for Game 6 in Philadelphia, after dropping a lackluster Game 5 at home on a late goal. At the start of the decisive game of the series, an absolute fire drill of a shift in the defensive zone led ...

Well, that's it. The final weekend of the Flyers' season went as the season did, with a roaring high followed by the lowest low, and the Flyers were eliminated from contention by the Penguins in six games. So given that there is little in the way of hockey news right now, outside of results, I thought we'd just ...

Young athletes from across New Hampshire took to the ice Sunday for a good cause. Kids played in a charity ice hockey tournament in Exeter to raise awareness, support families and fund research for children with cancer, with all proceeds going to the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. Advertisement.

But the Aud, which opened in 1940, wasn't Buffalo's first professional hockey arena. That distinction belongs to a building that is actually still standing: the Broadway Auditorium, also known as the Broadway Barns. Now a city public works garage, the building at 201 Broadway dates to 1858, when it was ...

He had few prospects at his disposal, a poor salary cap situation, and his franchise's only superstar (Marian Gaborik) was just 5 weeks from leaving the State of Hockey forever. That's quite a hole to be dug into. But throughout those nine seasons, Fletcher rebuilt the Wild from almost the ground up.

Why the hockey stick graph will always be climate science's icon. Two decades after it was first published, the chart linking carbon emissions and global warming is as relevant as ever, says Olive Heffernan. The famous hockey stick graph. IPCC and Michael Mann/Penn State. Today is the 20th anniversary ...

Members of the Downriver youth hockey community gathered at Elizabeth Park in Trenton on Sunday to hold vigil for members of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team who were killed when their bus was struck by a semi-trailer earlier this month in Canada. PHOTOS: Humboldt Broncos vigil held ...

“You talk about real life hockey, well, Slap Shot is real life hockey,'' Carlson says. “We did get arrested by going into the stands. We did jump a team in warm-ups in real life. We did fight often. My brothers (Jeff and Jack) and Dave Hanson, they were the ones who were the enforcers. When the puck was ...

And maybe Vasilevskiy put some questions to bed, like how he'd perform on hockey's biggest stage in his first season as a No. 1. All eyes were on him as the series began, including those belonging to Hall of Fame netminder Ken Dryden, who was visiting with his old coach, Scotty Bowman and who as a ...

A wet spring day didn't stop what seemed like the entire town of Franklin Lakes, NJ, from welcoming Jack Wallace this past Tuesday. After all, it's not every day that people meet a gold medalist who also happens to be their neighbor. Wallace and his USA Sled Hockey Teammates beat Canada, 2-1, ...

Grand Forks, North Dakota (University of North Dakota Fighting Hawks), took the top spot as best hockey city for the fourth year in a row. The arena for the university's men's hockey team has a maximum capacity of 11,500, which may sound too big for a town of just 55,000. But nearly 99 percent of seats are ...

A bunch of years ago, I was sitting at a LA Kings Hockey game, noticing the music the game made. The skates on the ice. The slap of the sticks. The puck being handled and passed around. The grunts. The whistles. The roar of the crowd. The bursts of music clips. The Zamboni. And in that moment, I knew ...

From a catwalk high atop Maple Leaf Gardens, the first of three generations of a Minnesota hockey broadcasting family got his big break. That's when Al Shaver, then working in Toronto, took a tape recorder and a microphone, climbed onto that catwalk and made a play-by-play audition tape of a Maple ...

Three Fox Valley area ice rinks will host what planners say is the biggest hockey tournament for players with disabilities. Mike Svac, chairman of the 14th annual Toyota-USA Hockey Disabled Hockey Festival, said between 1,700 and 1,800 athletes on 130 teams will take part in a variety of games over the ...

Ignore the desert garb, and it almost looks like they're taking a hockey faceoff. There's an ancestral reason for this: Ancient Egyptians created a game in which sticks were used to smack around a semicircle created from papyrus fibers wrapped in leather. In essence, Sameh Ramadan isn't trying to bring hockey to the ...

The award, which is in its 21st year, is presented annually to the top player in NCAA Division I women's ice hockey by The USA Hockey Foundation. Watts, who became the first freshman ever to claim the honor, was selected from a group of top-three finalists that included senior forward Victoria Bach ...

Steve Harris skated his daughter down the aisle Saturday. He said the couple met as engineering students at Michigan Tech in Houghton. "They met on the ice at Michigan Tech," he said. "She's played hockey her whole life." Courtney was a center for the Port Huron Lady Icehawks in high school; her dad ...

The Brainerd/Pillager adapted floor hockey team scored seven goals in the final 10 minutes of the third period to defeat Robbinsdale/Hopkins/Mound Westonka 11-4 in the physically impaired division championship Saturday at Bloomington Jefferson High School. Senior defenseman Jake Heikkenen ...

Providence moves East in Jayson Moy's projection of the 2018 NCAA tournament bracket (photo: Melissa Wade). It's time for the final Bracketology of the season. Here I will predict how I think the NCAA Ice Hockey Committee will think and what the bracket will look like when it is announced (noon Sunday ...

Saturday afternoon, when North Dakota defeated Minnesota Duluth 4-1 in the NCHC Frozen Faceoff third-place game, the Gophers men's hockey team appeared to be nearly a lock to make the NCAA tournament. Unless the results of six conference tournament finals didn't go their way, the Gophers would ...

Sled hockey's gold medal game went to overtime, where Declan Farmer scored the game winner. Plus, at the Paralympics, ... Team USA versus Canada always has a flair for the dramatic, and the sled hockey gold medal game at the PyeongChang Paralympics was no different. Canada reached the ...

After more than 20 years with the Minneapolis Star Tribune's circulation department, Larry Horstman embarked on a storied second career. In that second act, Horstman became a youth hockey coach and hockey program coordinator for Shattuck St. Mary's in Faribault, Minn. In the ensuing 20 years at the ...

Chryst, the acclaimed Wisconsin football coach, said he would love to have sat down with Johnson, the iconic UW women's hockey coach, and taken a deep dive into his philosophies and strategies. Picture the two of them in the backyard under a summer moon, amid a warm breeze, with cold beverages in ...

Young RI hockey player delivers emotional speech. by JESSICA A. BOTELHO, NBC 10 NEWS. A young hockey player from Woonsocket offered his teammates an emotional speech that was captured on camera and shared by a former NHL star. (Screenshot from Bryan Berard's Instagram). AA. A young hockey player from ...

When it comes to cities engrained with the sport of hockey, Charlotte probably isn't the first one to come to mind. ... who have just come on board in the last few years don't realize what the history is here,” said Ken Reid, a defenseman on the Southern Hockey League's Charlotte Checkers from 1973-75.

MUSIC - Off-Piste at the Paras, from the Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang. With Beth Rose. BETH - You'll find us near the beach today on Off-Piste at the Paras as we've come to Gangneung Park which is home to the ice hockey and the curling matches. I'm with Sports man Chris Osborne today.

A close sweep of the UConn Huskies in last weekend's Hockey East Tournament best-of-three quarterfinals is sending the number 18 men's hockey Terriers to the single-game elimination semifinal round tonight at TD Garden, where they'll go up against the number 14 Boston College Eagles. The Terriers ...

Mountain Warrior Coach Mark McKenna gives his team instructions at the start of the first game of their sixth annual sled hockey tournament at SUNY Canton's Roo's House ice arena. ... SUNY Canton's Roo's House ice arena hosted the sixth annual Mountain Warriors sled hockey tournament. Commenting ...

LEWISTON — All Jason Tremblay asked of his Biddeford players Saturday was that they give themselves a chance in the third period of the Class A boys' hockey state championship game against two-time defending champion Lewiston. Despite getting outshot 32-15, the Tigers trailed by just a goal with ...

GANGNEUNG, South Korea – Brody Roybal (Northlake, Ill.) netted a hat trick and eight different players scored as the 2018 U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team defeated Japan, 10-0, in its first preliminary round game of the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games. “We were extremely focused for 45 ...

BIDDEFORD — There will be more hockey of the best variety, March hockey, for Colby College. Six days after winning the first conference championship in program history, the Mules rebounded from a pair of early deficits, scoring three straight goals to upset seventh-ranked University of New England by a ...

“It's no secret that they're a good hockey team,” Barrow said. “We knew we would have to keep fighting back. We knew if they got one, we would have to get one. It was just tough because we felt like we were always trying to crawl out of a hole.” Despite a dangerous chance — and a struck post – the game ...

One such example is a three-way augmented reality air hockey game Sony developed specifically for the Wow Factory this year. The game features a physical hockey puck and three physical paddles around custom circular table. But the table is also making use of two of Sony's new IMX382 visual sensors, ...

Men's—The Wesleyan men's ice hockey team is moving on. With a big quarterfinal victory over Hamilton, the Cardinals advance to the semifinals this weekend for a matchup against Colby. After a big opening round win in the NESCAC Tournament, the Birds are set on taking home the trophy.

It was the track meet on ice everyone wanted, expected and impressively were treated to by Eastview and St. Thomas Academy, who traveled over to the west metro to settle an east-suburban score. The pace was relentless Thursday night at Braemar Arena in Edina. So were the scoring chances. And so ...

But the Eagles were well-equipped to end the Coyotes' run of five straight title-game appearances, as the Highlands Conference champions overcame a relatively weak schedule to play their best at the end of the season for a school that Gwozdecky noted “really made a commitment to hockey a few years ...

When you think of a newcomer to Seattle, the first thing that probably pops into your head is: millennial. And the data show that fully one-third of the Seattle-area adults with an interest in pro hockey are under age 35. That's a much higher percentage than fans of any of the other major pro sports in Seattle.

5 Ohio State men's hockey team (24-9-5, 17-9-2-1 Big Ten) fell in overtime 3-2 to No. 3 Notre Dame (25-9-2, 19-6-1-1 Big Ten), which captured the Big Ten tournament championship at Compton Family Ice Arena in South Bend, Indiana, on Saturday. Morrison potted the golden goal 9:23 into overtime while ...