Patrick Maroon says it’s easy to fly under the radar playing on a line with a pair of world-class players in Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry, but it’s becoming more and more difficult to stay there as the Ducks, and that top line, continue to win in the postseason.
Goaltending plays an integral part in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. NHL.com decided to break down the Eastern Conference Second Round matchup between Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens and Ben Bishop of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Former Effingham resident Luke Opilka is a member of the USA national hockey team that just won a world championship.
Chicago Steel goaltender Trevor Gorsuch announced that he has committed to play college hockey at Western Michigan beginning next season.
Mayfield, the Isles’ 2011 second-round pick, spent the entire season with Bridgeport and was brought up after the Sound Tigers’ season ended to skate with the playoff taxi squad. But injuries to Travis Hamonic, Lubomir Visnovsky and Calvin de Haan — the last two in Games 4 and 5 — meant it was time for Mayfield.
Kunin, the captain of the NTDP under-18 squad that’s currently playing in the World Championships in Switzerland, is a relatively unique case in that he’s accelerated his studies in order to complete four years of high school in three years.
Chris Wideman and the rest of the Senators scratches left the Bell Centre ice at the end of their morning skate and found the dressing room overflowing with members of the media.
“He was on track to be one of the top scoring defensemen in the league and then he gets injured,” Gibbons said of Kuster, who did not play from Jan. 1-Feb. 20 because of a concussion and shoulder injury. “He can shoot the puck and won a hardest shot competition on his team.
For NA3HL and St. Louis Jr. Blues alum Nick Saracino and the Providence College hockey team, the month of March was expected to be a bit short. After being shocked in the Hockey East quarterfinals by New Hampshire, the Friars were expecting to travel half the country and become cannon fodder for some other power.
Hershey signed Sam Warning to an amateur tryout agreement. The undrafted forward, who attended Washington Capitals development camp last July, produced 12-12-24 in 39 games in 2014-15.
