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Penn State Working to Find Its Ceiling During 42-Day Layoff

Penn State has had eyes on its team since April, when it made the Frozen Four for the first time in program history. Those eyes increased as the offseason went on, and the anticipation heading into the 2025-26 season was the highest it’s been in the team’s 14-year history...

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The Rundown - Week 10

Officially, we're ten weeks into the season and all nine teams are going on break for the next month as players, coaches, and staff get set for exams, holidays, and travel as many players will be returning to their homes once exams are completed. This week will also see each team officially cross the halfway wark of the season with six teams having played 18 games and three teams sitting at 16 games played. That means every game on the new calendar is that much more important for playoff posit...

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The Oilers’ depth has stepped up recently

Fans have come to expect sleepy Octobers from the Edmonton Oilers, but this year felt different. The slump dragged on, the underlying numbers cratered, and the bottom six were getting demolished. It was a bigger mess to clean up than the PDO-driven starts that have plagued Edmonton in the past few seasons. Fortunately for the…

2 months ago | 1 read

Why the Oilers might have a hidden gem in Connor Clattenburg

With the Edmonton Oilers lacking a physical presence and Noah Philp landing on the Long-Term Injured Reserve, the team called up left winger Connor Clattenberg. He was been making a name for himself in Bakersfield in his first full time rookie pro season with the Condors, playing a mere 16 AHL games prior to his…

2 months ago | 1 read

Today In NHL History - Roy Trade (MTL-COL)

On December 6th in 1995, the Montreal Canadiens traded Patrick Roy and team captain Mike Keane to the Colorado Avalanche for Jocelyn Thibault, Martin Rucinsky and Andrei Kovalenko in what remains one of the most lopsided exchanges in league history. The seeds of the move were sewn on December 2, 1995 during a franchise worst 11-1 home loss to the Detroit Red Wings. Allowing five goals in the

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Roundup: NCHC Teams in Great Shape With 1st Half Winding Down

With three teams in the top six of the NPI and defending national champ Western Michigan lurking not far behind, it's hard to find a series in the NCHC each weekend that isn't "big." That's especially true as a number of teams are enjoying resurgent seasons...

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Roundup: Dartmouth Remains Perfect, Union Blanks Quinnipiac

Despite continuing its perfect start, Dartmouth temporarily fell out of the top spot in the NPI on Friday, thanks to Michigan's big road win against Michigan State and its lofty strength of schedule. But Michigan had the tables turned on it Saturday, while Dartmouth kept on rolling, to regain the top spot...

2 months ago | 4 reads

Scenes From Morning Skate: Knoblauch sticks with four-goal second line

Kris Knoblauch didn’t exactly plan for Vasily Podkolzin, Leon Draisaitl, and Matt Savoie to become his second line against the Seattle Kraken, and now the Winnipeg Jets. But when you’ve already cycled through 28 different forward combinations in your first 13 games, you’re not so much making calculated decisions as you are reacting to whatever…

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Don't Call It A Comeback

After I wrote last week about Garret Sparks suiting up with Bloomington as their EBUG for a week, I didn't expect to write a second story about a former NHL player finding work in the ECHL. The man to the left, though, has given me that opportunity as he signed a standard player contract with the ECHL's Jacksonville Icemen yesterday, and the veteran of 73 NHL games appears to have played last night as the Icemen hosted the Atlanta Gladiators. If you don't recognize him from that picture immedi...

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