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Now Boarding: A Hockey Team

I'm not sure what else can be said or done for the Pederal Prospects Hockey League to save the league and its member teams from itself. The schedule was released on Friday to little fanfare despite the interest the league believes it has, and I went looking to see if the league was going to take baby steps forward with their newly-expanded map to help the financial situations of a number of teams. As stated, there are some massive distances between franchises this season that a bus ride simply...

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Priced Out Of The Market

As you likely know, I'm not a hockey executive. Frankly, with the state of economics in hockey right now, I'm not sure I'd want to be working in a front office right now because it seems like everyone is either delusional or insane. Or maybe both. Being that I'm not qaulified to diagnose anyone as senile, though, it became somewhat hard to ignore that the new AHL team in Hamilton might be on a fast track to another relocation thanks to their ticket prices. Welcome to professional hockey, Hamil...

Klepov Forgoes Michigan State, Signs NHL Deal

Michigan State's record five first-round picks taken in last month's NHL Draft, is down to four.Incoming freshman Nikita Klepov, who was selected No. 15 overall, has decided to instead sign with Anaheim, the team that selected him.Despite all the eligibility changes in the NCAA, signing an entry-level NHL contract is definitely something that makes you ineligible for college hockey. Klepov, who was...

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Benny, Mick E., and Icy?

Virtually every team on the planet has a mascot. They usually have the role of being an ambassador for the team while entertaining fans, but mascots are usually in a one-to-one relationship with a team. Rarely do we see mascots moving between teams, but there have been a handful who have made the transition from one team to another like Youppi! in Montreal and Sparky the Dragon on Long Island. There is one mascot in hockey, however, who has worked for a number of teams in his career, and one o...

What's the deal with NHL GMs who go from genius to dunce after switching jobs?

Seven years ago, the Red Wings pulled off the near-impossible: They made a move that absolutely everyone loved. Their own fans, who were thrilled. Other fan bases, who were grudgingly jealous. The media. The experts. The insiders. The nerds. All 200 hockey men. Everyone agreed: Hiring Steve Yzerman as GM was a slam dunk. The news landed one Friday morning, somehow both coming out of nowhere while also feeling like we’d known it all along. Of course the captain was coming home. After an apprent...

Oilers pick Andrew Robinson ready for feature role with Windsor Spitfires

Players don’t always develop in a linear path. Sometimes they experience brief setbacks, and sometimes they level up rapidly. Perhaps no prospect in the recent Edmonton Oilers’ draft class understands that better than Andrew Robinson, whom the team selected 133rd overall in the 2026 Draft. Robinson began his first campaign in the OHL this past…

The Hockey Show - Episode 722

The Hockey Show , Canada's only campus-produced radio show that strictly talks hockey, is back in the confines of the UMFM studios tonight for some chatter about the state of hockey once more! Usually, you expect the summer to be a little slower when it comes to news stories, but there seems to be significant news happening each and every week this summer so we're going to keep talking about it! We'll get into more stories tonight on The Hockey Show at 5:30pm CT! Tonight, Teebz and Jason w...

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Trapezoids, Hand Passes Among Rule Changes

The NCAA has added the NHL rule regarding where goaltenders are allowed to play the puck behind the net. That was among a handful of rule changes officially adopted today for the upcoming season. The rules had already been approved by the hockey committee earlier in the offseason.The new rule allows for goalies to play the puck behind the goal line only within a trapezoid area directly behind the ...

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The Final Day

The HBIC Music Festival comes to a close today on this third day of looking at musicians wearing or holding hockey jerseys, and it's a day where every other league outside of the NHL gets to shine. Honestly, if I were a touring musician, I'd want more of these lesser-known teams in my closet because that's the sign of a true hockey fan. In saying that, though, these musicians seen today are doing their part in supporting the lesser-seen teams! Of course, if you know of a band or artist I've mi...

Top 100 Oilers: No. 23 — Lee Fogolin

Oilersnation is reviving the Top 100 Edmonton Oilers of All Time list, a project originally created by the late Robin Brownlee in 2015. Lee Fogolin comes in at No. 23 on our updated 2025 list. He was ranked No. 19 on Brownlee’s original list.  Lee Fogolin was basically an old man when the Edmonton Oilers…

Bouchard and Ekholm score back-to-back hat tricks: Best Oilers moments of 2025-26

This summer, Oilersnation will recap the top five Edmonton Oilers goals, the top five fights, and the top five overall moments from the up-and-down 2025-26 season.  It was a season to forget for the Edmonton Oilers, because after back-to-back Stanley Cup Finals, the Oilers crashed out in the first round. They didn’t have a tough…

BC Signs First WHL Player

Boston College has not dipped its toes that far into the Major Junior ranks yet, but after bringing in two OHL players in the last couple years, the Eagles have committed their first player from the WHL.Matias Vanhanen, who scored 87 points in 62 games for Everett last season, is expected to join BC this coming season. Vanhanen, a native of Nokia, Finland, was selected in the second round, 37th overall...

OHL Head Coach Joins Michigan Staff

Chris Lazary, head coach of the OHL's Saginaw Spirit since 2018, has been hired as a new assistant coach at Michigan. Lazary steps in for Rob Rassey, who left the staff earlier this month to become new head coach at Harvard.Lazary, 44, is an Ontario native, and has never coached or played in the NCAA. He was an assistant coach at York University for one season, 2012-13. Since then he has mainly been...

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Q&A With: St. Cloud State Coach Nick Oliver

Nick Oliver is a St. Cloud State alum, who was most recently an assistant coach at Wisconsin. He was basically learning he'd get the job while coaching Wisconsin at this past year's Frozen Four. He takes over for Brett Larson, who went to Minnesota.CHN: Welcome to the head coaching fraternity in college hockey — it's a small group. How are things so far?Oliver: At times I've felt like I've been ...