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Jr. Ducks teams taste success at recent NHL Youth Cup tournaments
January 23rd, 2020The NHL Youth Cup agrees with the Anaheim Jr. Ducks. All five Jr. Ducks teams finished with winning records at the West weekend on Jan. 2-5, and the 2010 and 2005 birth years won their respective divisions. The NHL Youth Cup provides NHL-affiliated AAA youth hockey clubs an opportunity to play a weekend series of…
Manhattan Beach native, Jr. Kings product Brisson tabbed USHL Forward of the Week
January 23rd, 2020Chicago Steel forward Brendan Brisson has been named the USHL Forward of the Week for the week ending Jan. 19, 2020. Brisson came up big for the Steel in a weekend sweep of the Omaha Lancers. READ OUR LATEST ISSUE On Friday night, the University of Michigan commit assisted on an equalizing tally from fellow…
Huntington Beach native, Jr. Kings, Jr. Ducks alum Haar garners weekly NAHL award
January 22nd, 2020Aberdeen Wings forward Cooper Haar has been named the NAHL’s Central Division Star of the Week for the week ending Feb. 9, 2020. The 20-year-old Haar helped his team widen their lead atop the Central Division with a weekend home sweep of the Minot Minotauros. READ OUR LATEST ISSUE “Cooper has been an added difference…
Jr. Ducks grad Rashkovsky bringing Thunder for NCDC team
January 22nd, 2020After carving his hockey teeth in the Golden State, Los Angeles native Nick Rashkovsky is honing his craft on the East Coast. A member of the Anaheim Jr. Ducks AAA program until his Midget Major season, the 2000 birth year moved on to play his final two seasons of high school at Vermont Academy, a…
Jr. Sharks’ Pee Wee AAA team heading to prestigious international tournament next month in Quebec
January 22nd, 2020The Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament is the most prestigious minor hockey tournament in the world. And the San Jose Jr. Sharks will have their 12U AAA team representing the organization at the event that boasts 120 teams from across the globe and runs from Feb. 12-23. READ OUR LATEST ISSUE Playing in the AA…
2020 AHL All-Star Classic to make history at Ontario’s Toyota Arena
January 20th, 2020Southern California will be serve as a history-making backdrop for the American Hockey League’s (AHL) 2020 All-Star Classic Jan. 26-27 at Toyota Arena in Ontario. The two-day event will be the first midseason showcase to be held on the West Coast by the league, which has been in operation since 1936. The AHL serves as…
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Tahoe Prep players finding success, on and off the ice, as 2020 calendar year begins
January 15th, 2020With the new year here, we’re also moving into the thick of hockey season. And at Tahoe Prep Academy, this time of year often brings with it a turning point for the young hockey players and students living away from home in the mountains. First-year players start to feel at home, and players who are…
From the Trainer’s Room: Knowing when to return to the playing field after an injury
January 14th, 2020Injuries occur in sports. Some require rest, some rehab, and sometimes treatment and modifications to activity are necessary in order to get the athlete back into competition. Every injury and every athlete is different, so there is no black-and-white answer to how fast or what is needed to return to play. When an injury occurs,…
Medical student Russell: Strikers job ‘helps me unwind’
January 14th, 2020As a third-year medical student pursuing a respiratory therapy degree at L.A. Valley College, Kainoa Russell is an extremely busy person these days, but that hasn’t kept him from continuing the role he started in a few years back as the junior varsity coach for the El Segundo Strikers in the L.A. Kings High School…