Like so many Anchorage kids, Merit Waldrop Jr. started watching hockey games at Sullivan Arena about the time memories could first be formed. “I probably saw Dad play 50 to 100 games in this rink,” Waldrop Jr. said. “I feel like I grew up here.” Now the Anchorage...
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Eagle River’s Carter McCormick helped spark the Kenai River Brown Bears’ superlative weekend. McCormick, 19, scored 1 minute, 38 seconds into overtime Friday to lift Kenai River to a 3-2 North American Hockey League victory over the visiting Janesville (Wisc.) Jets....
While the results were nothing to write home about for the UAA and UAF hockey teams during the season’s opening weekend, the fans in both Anchorage and Fairbanks got to catch a first look before each squad hits the road. Spectators of the Nanooks will be waiting quite...
Try as he might, David Carle couldn’t pinpoint the last time he skated on the Avis Alaska Sports Complex ice. He knew it’d been a while. “I don’t remember playing a lot of games here,” said Carle, Anchorage’s own who kicked off his seventh season as top-ranked Denver...
As UAA sits hours away from the opening puck drop on its 35th season as a NCAA Division I team, it does so with the college hockey world’s eyes fixated upon the start. Welcome the reigning national champions and pre-season favorites to run it back to town for a visit,...
Alaska’s trio of teams showed out at the 21st annual North American Hockey League Showcase in Blaine, Minn. The Anchorage Wolverines, Fairbanks Ice Dogs and Kenai River Brown Bears combined to go 7-1-1 and, in the process, outscored opponents 35-18 once the batch of...
Goaltender Vaughn Makar is one of nine Alaska products rostered by the Anchorage Wolverines as they embark on the franchise's fourth North American Hockey League season. Wednesday morning, he shined in his second start to propel Anchorage to its first victory of the...
The Anchorage Wolverines made the most of nearly every go at Ben Boeke Arena in three seasons of existence, winning almost 70% percent of their games in the 50-year-old barn. On Monday, the North American Hockey League junior organization officially announced it is...
Anchorage hockey player Mac Swanson was selected as our Alaska Athlete of the Week after being picked by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the seventh round of the NHL draft. The 18-year-old was named USA Hockey's Junior Player of the Year and U.S. Hockey League's Player of...
After a remarkable season filled with team titles and individual accolades, winger Mac Swanson of Anchorage tied a bow on his bounty Saturday, when the Pittsburgh Penguins made him a seventh-round NHL draft pick. Swanson, 18, who is headed to North Dakota as a true...
Anchorage’s Clair DeGeorge lifted her second trophy in three years Wednesday night after she helped Minnesota win the inaugural Professional Women’s Hockey League Walter Cup with a 3-0 victory over Boston in the decisive Game 5 in Lowell, Mass. DeGeorge, who turns 25...