United States Hockey League

Prud'homme had been hired by the NY Rangers to start a competitive Junior B league in Montreal. When Gilbert was signed, Gilbert told Yvon Prud’homme to sign Jean Ratelle. Yvon Prud’homme signed Ratelle without even seeing him play. Rod Gilbert was also a player for his country, Canada. He played against the Soviet Union in the Summit Series in 1972. Gilbert helped Team Canada receive a win in one of the greatest hockey series in my opinion. Gilbert set or equaled 20 team scoring records and…

The New York Islanders came into last night’s game four at Barclays Center in Brooklyn with a couple of demons still chasing the proud but recently maligned franchise. Leading the best of seven first round series against the gritty Atlantic division champion Florida Panthers, two games to one, Jack Capuano’s squad was looking to win consecutive playoff games for the first time since 2002. Capuano, who has made all the right moves in the last three weeks or so leading up to this point, did his…

as Michael Del Zotto finished off a beautiful tic tac toe passing play from Claude Giroux and Jake Voracek. Giroux who has had his fair share of struggles this season is now enjoying a six-game point streak Only 1:11 later Kyle Palmieri tied the hockey game starting a string of three unanswered Devils goals. Brayden Schenn drew the Flyers to within one scoring his 21st of the season to bring the Flyers to within one. The Flyers entered the third period down by 1 goal hoping for a chance for a…

premier hockey team having won the Stanley Cup in 2006. This victory means the Hurricanes are the only pro sports team in North Carolina who has won a major championship. Lately, however, attendance has been down and the Hurricanes have not experienced the same level of success as years past. This lack of success has fueled relocation rumors and while relocating could help, it is not promised that this action will increase attendance or player performance. All sports are different, while hockey,…

the sport hockey. Hockey is a fast paced game played on ice that is very complex and simple at the same time, but the roots of the game are not as precise as other sports' roots. The exact start of hockey is hard to tell because it was not recorded since the beginning and making of the game, but there are also beginnings in hockey that are set in stone such as the first organized hockey game, the first hockey league, and the donation of the Stanley Cup. The origins of hockey or for…

the hockey games, he’d be cheering for goals and yelling at the referees, and I would always be so confused. “What are they doing?” i’d ask my dad. He’d only reply with, “playing hockey,” and then he’d go back to the game. I never understood why he was so into the game until I got older and ended up watching it next to him. Now I still ask that same question, only its towards the referee’s. “Crap calls, that's what.” Dad always got into the games, actually my whole family consists of hockey…

Throughout the history of the National Hockey League, there have been a plethora of great hockey players. Maurice “Rocket” Richard, Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe, Wayne Gretzky - the list goes on and on. So many amazing talents have blessed the ice surface. Back in the 1970’s and 80’s, the game was strikingly different. There was more open ice, bigger hits, more frequent fighting, etc. Now, it has all changed, but it is still a great sport to watch and follow. Yet the one burning question always…

National Basketball Players Association (NBPA). The reason for collective bargaining was to make that there will not be a basketball lockout in 2017. This new agreement has a seven-year term covering the 2017-2018 season through 2023-2024 season. The league imposed a brief lockout in 1996 that didn’t lead to any lost games, but the 1998 lockout led to the cancellation of 32 games before a last-minute agreement in January 1999 salvaged a 50-game season. In 2011, the season was shorten to 66…

Have you ever made it to state or even the state championship? Well I have and I love hockey. Hockey is a sport that I have loved since I was three years old. My favorite hockey player is Nikita Kucherov. He is a very skilled player and scans the ice very well. To me hockey is like a key to a lock, I have to have it. Whenever I play hockey I always want to win and play good. When Nikita first got into the NHL he was not very good. Now he is one of the most skilled hockey players in the NHL. The…

Ice hockey is a game of skill, agility, and retribution. Valerie Wood’s Enforcer immerses the reader into the world of ice hockey, focusing on the toll the sport takes on one particular team position. The enforcer on a hockey team is the guy that habitually protects his teammates through physical retaliation on the ice. If you ever witness a gloves-off fight during a hockey game, chances are that it is being instigated by the team’s enforcer. While they can play a vital and strategic role on the…