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@Windspeaker@mstdn.ca “I, myself, I'm 12 times more likely to go missing or go murdered. But we need to change that narrative. And we need to change it to I'm 12 times more likely to be successful in my chosen career, 12 times more likely to go from the bench to the boardroom. And that's really why I'm so passionate about this game.”

A Winnipeg minor hockey player was benched for his team's season finale Saturday after his parents filed a defamation lawsuit naming a South Winnipeg Hockey Association (SWHA) board member as a defendant.

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Hi I just made a community for the Ligue d'Hockey Junior Maritimes Québec, also known as the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) that has teams from Québec, New-Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and next year a team in Newfoundland and Labrador

Florida Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad was suspended 20 games without pay Monday for violating the NHL and NHL Players' Association’s policy on performance-enhancing drugs, taking him off the ice for the defending Stanley Cup champions' stretch run and start of the playoffs.

Are you all watching some of the games today/tonight? We've got Edmonton at Carolina followed by Vancouver at Seattle. Will the Oilers break their five-game losing streak? Are the Canucks going to make the playoffs? Why do we so rarely get the Jets on CBC when they are playing so damn well? Let's post about the games today.

The Apple Watch is now the smartwatch of choice for National Hockey League officials. Apple and the NHL just announced a collaboration where on-ice officials will wear Apple Watches that are running special software to receive important in-game information.

What would it take to get Russia, USA, Canada, and the EU in a 4 “Nations” Cup?

A Saskatchewan hockey referee is gaining widespread attention after posting a video on social media telling coaches and parents to “do better.”

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While seeing a good scrap at a men’s league game might not be all that out of the ordinary, this one had some history behind it.

"Whoever invented the Stanley Cup."

Wow. That's all I can say. Check out the stats on Vaakanainen at the bottom of the article - he has 1 point in 5 games this season, and is currently on the IR. Overall he has 25 points - 1 goal, 24 assists - in 141 regular season games.

The Utah Hockey Club got the full Toronto experience Sunday night ahead of their first-ever matchup against the Maple Leafs—bumper-to-bumper traffic that forced the team to walk to the game.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are struggling mightily this season. Sitting at the bottom of the Metropolitan Division with a dismal 7-11-4 record and a minus 29 goal differential, changes are likely on the horizon. One name unexpectedly swirling in the NHL trade rumor mill is Penguins captain Sidney Crosby.

Sherman enjoying the #Wild game against the #Blackhawks

Sherman enjoying the #Wild game against the #Blackhawks

Why isn't Moose wearing his bucket during warm-ups? In any event #LetsGoWild and beat the #TampaBayLightning !

Its been a pretty fun start to the season. Just really don't want the streak to end to the Leafs, but I'm kinda expecting it.

I think it’s an improvement on the black and gold shirts originally but still falls short of the green and purple ones for me. I get wanting to create a different identity though.

Despite all the salary cap Shenanigans Vegas has pulled I think Lehner getting paid is a good thing.

A cat of good taste

Obviously wishing Dakota the best in his recovery.

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The Professional Women’s Hockey League on Tuesday announced the hiring of AHL executive Melissa Caruso to take over as general manager of its Minnesota franchise and shore up a team that dealt with several crises in the weeks after winning the league’s inaugural championship.

No other details have been released yet, just that it was an “accident”.

“Jeff Marek is no longer with Sportsnet,” a Sportsnet spokesperson told Daily Hive this morning.

When it came time for the Chicago Blackhawks to decide whether or not sexual assault against one of their own players should even be reported to the authorities just as the team clinched a spot in the 2010 Stanley Cup Final, general manager Stan Bowman was one of seven members of Chicago's front office to turn their heads and look the other way.

The NHL lifted its ban on longtime coach Joel Quenneville and executives Stan Bowman and Al MacIsaac on Monday, clearing the way for their return to the league more than two years after they were punished in the fallout from the Chicago's NHL team sexual assault scandal.

https://www.thepwhl.com/en/professional-womens-hockey-league-pwhl-announces-schedule-for-the-inaugural-pwhl-finals

"I think about it every day, more or less. I get a lot of flashbacks, and they're not very pleasant."

Petitions are annoying, but I'm hoping some of us will want to sign this one! The goal is simple: Have the National Hockey League create a solution where the local broadcast announcers of the home team handle the broadcast for every nationally-televised game, such as the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Winnipeg's Rick Bowness, Nashville's Andrew Brunette and Vancouver's Rick Tocchet were named finalists on Friday for the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's 2023-24 coach of the year.

The American Hockey League established a new record for attendance in a single regular season as more than 6.8 million fans attended AHL games across North America in 2023-24.

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I feel bad for the fans in Arizona, but I think it's time. I also think the NHL will be back at some point. They'll give it another go like in Atlanta, and who knows, maybe they'll be more successful.

Not sure how important this is to most people, but I'm a bit of a jersey nerd and this has a lot of important information regarding the upcoming switch to Fanatics as the official NHL uniform designer.

After years of feeling alienated by the NHL and campaigning to diversify the sport, Akim Aliu is getting another shot at playing pro hockey, this time with the San Jose Sharks' minor league affiliate.

Looks like we might be getting reviewable delay of game calls in the near future.

Interesting nugget coming out of today's NHL GMs Meeting: A couple managers mentioned that the league has signed on to do a behind-the-scenes series with Amazon that will centre around 10-12 star players.

They're currently sitting in a wild card spot and are one point back of Philadelphia for the 3 spot in the Metro with a game in hand.

Konstantin Koltsov, the Belarusian former pro ice hockey player and boyfriend of tennis player Aryna Sabalenka, has died at the age of 42, Russian club Salavat Yulaev said in a statement on Tuesday.

Last I looked they were almost a playoff guarantee, but now they're sitting outside the wildcard spots?

Of course he does.

Philadelphia coach John Tortorella reluctantly left the bench Saturday night after receiving a game misconduct and bench minor early in the Flyers’ 7-0 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning.

What a fall from grace for the man who (for my money) should have won the Conn-Smythe in 2018.