“There’s really not any negatives about that,” said Matthew Tkachuk, who plays forward for the Ontario Hockey League’s London Knights alongside Max Jones. “I do hear people comparing, ‘You’re like him,’ or, ‘You don’t play like him,’ and that is kind of a challenge, but overall it’s just been great having a guy like that around, a guy who’s been through it, who knows the game.”
The Corpus Christi IceRays opened their season with a series in Topeka and ended up with a weekend road split. Forward Andy McGlynn, 18, scored in each of the games and had four shots on goal. On Friday, the native of St. Louis, MO, had the IceRays first goal in a 3-1 win.
No doubt, at some point in your life, you have asked yourself what Cam Janssen has in common with Robin Hood. It’s a compelling question, right?
And until last week, the answer was obvious. Nothing, not even a vowel.
Although Chris Butler was cut by the Blues at the end of training camp last year and dressed in only 33 games after being recalled from the American Hockey League, St. Louis was where the defenseman wanted to stay.
Wideman, the Ottawa Senators’ 25-year-old defence prospect, has a tad more life experience than 23-year-old Mark Stone and 20-year-old Curtis Lazar. He jokes that “I’m the babysitter, I make sure everyone is tucked in early.”
After having an extraordinary U18 career, capped by scoring the game-winning goal in overtime at the gold-medal game in the 2015 WW18 in Buffalo, defenceman Jincy Dunne embarks on a university career with Ohio State.
Nick Saracino, F, Providence: If you expect Providence to repeat as national champions, you will see Saracino leading the way. The senior forward, who led the Friars in scoring last season with 38 points in 40 games, joins seven other seniors who are looking to repeat in their final year.
Combs, a 27-year-old six-year pro, played for a total of five clubs, in three different countries, this past season. The St. Louis, MO native began the year with Toros Neftekamsk of Russia’s Vysshaya Liga (VHL), posting seven assists and four penalty minutes in 11 games, before joining the Allen Americans of the ECHL.
David Makowski Joins the Americans after playing 44 games in Wheeling last season, where he had 19 points in 44 games. Growing up in St Louis, he began his junior career with the hometown Bandits of the North American Hockey League. He spent four seasons at the University of Denver, where he scored a total of 93 points in 142 games.
Stastny looked much more at ease Monday, following a pressurizing period in his life last year in which he signed a four-year, $28 million free-agent contract with his hometown team, got married, sustained a shoulder injury in his fourth game and struggled to find his role with his new club.
