Doan aims to build legacy with Utah Hockey Club similar to father’s with Coyotes

ARLINGTON, Va. — Putting on the Utah Hockey Club’s full home uniform for the first time at the 2024 NHLPA Rookie Showcase on Wednesday gave Josh Doan another reason to get excited about the upcoming season…

Dylan Cozens lighting the lamp at Worlds

Cozens leads the tournament with eight goals at the end of the group stage…

Nico Hischier Shows the Impact of a True Captain

The title of Captain is something that is prestigious to the player it is assigned to. That player may be the team’s best player, or the heart and soul of that team. For Nico Hischier, it is more than that…

Phillips enjoys ‘unreal’ game for Capitals against former team

WASHINGTON — Matthew Phillips wasn’t thinking about revenge against the Calgary Flames on Monday.

The rookie forward couldn’t hide, though, that it meant a little more to score his first NHL goal against the Flames, his hometown team who selected him in the sixth round (No. 166) of the 2016 NHL Draft, to help the Washington Capitals rally for a 3-2 shootout victory at Capital One Arena…

Brothers, Boy Bands, and Budding Talents: The rise of Taro and Akito Hirose

Taro Hirose had just landed in Winnipeg for an April double-header when he was asked, “Were you ever a member of a boy band?”

“I cannot confirm or deny that,” he replied cryptically. “Yeah, I’ll just leave it at that.”

The boy band in question was supposedly made up of Hirose and three of his Salmon Arm Silverbacks teammates when they were all teenagers in the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL). Though he could not confirm (or deny) its existence, Hirose did speak about the hockey journey that led him from going undrafted by every Western Hockey League (WHL) team as a youth to top NCAA free agent with multiple suitors lining up to give him an NHL contract…