The NHL’s Florida Panthers on Tuesday announced they have signed young goaltender Spencer Knight to a three-year deal worth $13.5 million, and if you’re wondering what in the hockey world that has to do with Alaska sports, here’s your answer: Boston Bruins young...
Barring injury to either or both of the Los Angeles Kings’ projected goaltending tandem, North Pole’s Pheonix Copley is likely ticketed to the Ontario Reign, the Kings’ American Hockey League affiliate. Monday, on a night when one of those projected starters, Cal...
Coming off a strong sophomore season, goaltender Hannah Hogenson of Anchorage got her junior season with the Bemidji State (Minn.) women’s hockey team off to sterling start Friday. Hogenson stopped 25 of 27 shots (.926 save percentage) in a 3-2 overtime nonconference...
After enduring misery last season, the Kenai River Brown Bears are off to a promising start this go-round, which continued Thursday with an overtime road win and a goaltender pledging his commitment to UAA. Center and assistant captain Bryce Monrean of Anchorage, who...
Lest you forget that some of Alaska’s best active hockey players earn their paychecks abroad, we’re here to fill you in on some dynamite debuts across the pond. U.S. Olympic defenseman Brian Cooper of Anchorage – and that’s @CoopDaddy907 to you – marked his debut with...
Second-year pro winger Cam Hausinger of Anchorage, one of three brothers who play professional hockey, on Monday wrapped rookie training camp with the NHL’s Nashville Predators, who have also listed the right winger on their roster for the main training camp that...
Alaska’s three clubs in the North American Hockey League have started the season the way the schedule usually dictates for them – namely, an extended road trip that includes the junior circuit’s annual Showcase in Blaine, Minn. The Anchorage Wolverines, Kenai River...
Hockey season has arrived, which means plenty of Alaskans are getting accustomed to new locations, so let’s update you on who is where and doing what. Goaltender Isaiah Saville of Anchorage, who signed with the NHL’s Vegas Knights last spring following his junior...
Nate Thompson was a sixth-round NHL draft pick – those dudes rarely become fixtures in the world’s best hockey league. Nate Thompson played more than 250 regular-season and playoff games in the American Hockey League before he became an NHL regular – so much time on...
Anchorage’s Tanner Sorenson didn’t waste any time making himself at home – and stamping his name on scoresheets – in his debut weekend in the Great Britain-based Elite Ice Hockey League. Sorenson, 29, who has played most of his pro career for the ECHL’s Kalamazoo...
Evan Trupp, a longtime staple in the city's hockey community who played for Service High and the Alaska Aces, is the new bench boss for the Anchorage Wolverines. Trupp today was named head coach of the junior hockey team, replacing Mike Aikens who left for the college...