by Maggie Walters || AHL On The Beat Archive Imagine you are a freshman in college, leaving home for the first time. Although you may be homesick at first, you know that home is probably, at most, only a few hours’ drive away. Now, imagine being an 18-year-old Russian leaving home for the first time […]
by Chris Etheridge || AHL On The Beat Archive Rockford IceHogs center Tyler Mosienko doesn’t need to look too far to remember where he came from. He just has to open the 2008-09 Chicago Blackhawks wall calendar to March to find a picture of his grandfather, Bill Mosienko, a 1965 inductee in the Hockey Hall […]
by Jesse Eisenberg || AHL On The Beat Archive For many first-year players the hardest part of making the jump from college hockey to the professional game is the transition from a 35- or 40-game amateur schedule to a grinding 80-game docket. Avoiding the “rookie wall” is as difficult a task as adjusting to the […]
by Garry McKay || AHL On The Beat Archive When the phone rang at Ron Wilson’s home last Monday it was Hamilton Bulldogs general manager Julien BriseBois with a somber message. "We’re making a coaching change," BriseBois told him. Wilson said he was stunned. "I thought I was getting fired," he said. "It caught me […]
by Bob Crawford || AHL On The Beat Archive The youngest player in the AHL last year at age 19, and in his first year living outside his native Russia, Hartford Wolf Pack forward Artem Anisimov adjusted quite well to North American pro hockey, and to life in the United States. He led all Wolf […]
by Alex Kyrias || AHL On The Beat Archive This season, the Iowa Chops and goaltender David LeNeveu have teamed up with Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines for a program that truly goes to a good cause. The program is called David LeNeveu’s Saves For Kids, a fundraiser that raises money for every […]
by Brian Coe || AHL On The Beat Archive Todd Reirden made his NHL debut with Edmonton in 1998-99. (Photo: Getty Images) The Pittsburgh Penguins made one of the biggest deals at the National Hockey League’s trade deadline, acquiring veteran forward Bill Guerin from the New York Islanders for a conditional draft pick. To […]
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by Adam Kaufman || AHL On The Beat Archive In every partnership, there must be give and take, collaboration and common ground. Some of those partnerships, friendships, begin from nothing more than a common knowledge of the other individual. From there, trust, confidence and a foundation must be built in order to forge ahead. […]
by Brian Smith || AHL On The Beat Archive The Philadelphia Phantoms’ Matt Clackson is known for dropping the mitts on the ice, but rarely is his weapon of choice a giant foam jousting pole. Last Sunday, however, the sight of soaking wet and back-flipping Phantoms fit right into the jubilation and spectacle at the […]
