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Byline: SIMON HOUPT; Staff WEEKENDS WITH ... Carey Price is deep in stay-athome-dad mode: His wife, Angela, is away at a convention in Las Vegas, and after the morning rush [...]

Byline: Brad Elliott Schlossman Jan. 31ST. CLOUD, Minn. UND freshman forward Mac Swanson was last year's United States Hockey League Forward of the Year and Player of the Year. He's [...]

Byline: JOSHUA CLIPPERTON; THE CANADIAN PRESS Jakub Stancl fired a hopeful shot with overtime looming. Czechia had already given underwhelming Canada all it could handle in the countries' quarter-final matchup [...]

Byline: BRENDA BOUW; Staff BEHIND THE ADVICE Kent Manderville, an adviser in Ottawa, spent 16 years playing professional hockey for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers, Hartford Whalers (now Carolina [...]

Byline: JOSHUA CLIPPERTON; THE CANADIAN PRESS Mats Sundin was in a familiar place. Everything was also very different. It was February, 2009. The former captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs [...]

Byline: Seth Rorabaugh Oct. 16Having turned 29 in March, Sam Lafferty is hardly an old man. An electron microscope would be required to find any kind of wrinkles on his [...]

MONTREAL -- It is always an adventure to meet Wayne Gretzky. Even for journalists he knows, a oneon-one opportunity with him is rare. Once he gets started, though, he is [...]

Byline: Seth Rorabaugh Sep. 24When he was considering an offer from the Pittsburgh Penguins as an unrestricted free agent this summer, Boko Imama did some scouting. And he got a [...]

Byline: Seth Rorabaugh Sep. 23Ryan Graves harbors a resolutely positive attitude. With long hair and a habit of talking about good vibes, he has an appearance and presence more akin [...]

Byline: Seth Rorabaugh Sep. 22The Pittsburgh Penguins had a busy offseason, but one piece of business they squared away early involved Valtteri Puustinen. It took management about 15 minutes to [...]

Byline: Seth Rorabaugh Jul. 23It's a fair debate. And it has plenty of valid candidates with strong arguments. Who is the best athlete in the Plante family? The most prominent [...]

Byline: Seth Rorabaugh Jul. 18Growing up in Anchorage, Alaska, Pittsburgh Penguins forward prospect Mac Swanson didn't have many homegrown NHLers to idolize. But he probably had the best one to [...]

Byline: Justin Guerriero Jul. 12Geographically and topographically (not to mention culturally), one would be hard-pressed to think of a more stark contrast between Finland and Iowa. Yet, that's exactly the [...]

Byline: Giustino Racchini Jul. 10Chosen 14th in the 2023 NHL Draft and with a junior hockey championship to his credit, Pittsburgh Penguins prospect Brayden Yager is ready to take his [...]

Byline: STEPHEN WHYNO; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SUNRISE, FLA. -- When members of the 1993 Montreal Canadiens gathered for a reunion to commemorate 30 years since they won the Stanley Cup, [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Jun. 12Former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Tyler Kennedy doesn't even let the question end. What does he remember about Max Talbot's game-winning goal in Game 7 of the [...]

Byline: Tim Benz May 31I've always been a fan of Bryan Rust. There are few Pittsburgh Penguins players that I've enjoyed covering more than him. A clutch performer. A two-time [...]

Byline: PAUL ATTFIELD; Staff WEEKENDS WITH ... Weeks before Max Domi was riding shotgun alongside Auston Matthews on the Toronto Maple Leafs' top line, a very wellconnected - and well-known [...]

Byline: PAUL ATTFIELD; Staff WEEKENDS WITH ... While Friday's NHL tradedeadline day represented the last chance for teams to bring in outside help before the playoffs begin next month, for [...]

Byline: PAUL ATTFIELD; Staff WEEKENDS WITH ... Twenty years since he last skated in the NHL, Mark Messier is still very much connected to the sport with which he has [...]

Byline: SIMON HOUPT; Staff WEEKENDS WITH ... It takes a special kind of athlete to crush the dreams of fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Vancouver Canucks and [...]

Byline: JOSHUA CLIPPERTON; THE CANADIAN PRESS Patrice Bergeron understands how the rumour started. The former Bruins captain spends every Friday on the ice with a group of friends and fellow [...]

Byline: Seth Rorabaugh Jan. 22The desert is an odd place for a hockey player to find himself. But the Southwest is where Nick Bjugstad, a one-time Minnesota Mr. Hockey, has [...]

Byline: DANIEL RAINBIRD; THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL -- Dominika Laskova remembers waiting for a pass that never landed on her stick. Laskova was 12 years old taking the ice for [...]

Byline: MARTY KLINKENBERG; Staff WEEKENDS WITH ... It is only a few days after the Professional Women's Hockey League's draft and Erin Ambrose is still excited about it when we [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson The steady drumbeat of rain was the loudest sound in the building. It was a quiet night in August, in the lingering wake of summer thunderstorms, and [...]

Byline: RACHEL BRADY; Staff WEEKENDS WITH ... As Kendall Coyne Schofield pops into the frame of our video call, she greets me with a charming courtesy. 'Apologies, you're going to [...]

Byline: JOHN WAWROW; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Patience remains the operative word from Hilary Knight on the Professional Women's Hockey Players' Association's long-awaited bid to launch its own professional league. 'I'm [...]

Byline: PAUL ATTFIELD; Staff WEEKEND WITH ... Since retiring from playing hockey in 2007, Cheryl Pounder has refashioned herself as a mainstay on the TSN hockey panel. Having covered the [...]

Byline: PAUL ATTFIELD; Staff WEEKEND WITH ... Forty-two years removed from his last playoff run with the Toronto Maple Leafs, former captain Darryl Sittler is never too far from the [...]

Byline: Seth Rorabaugh Apr. 9Like a lot of fathers with a young family, Brian Boyle occasionally has to miss a birthday, practice or recital. He does have to commute to [...]

Byline: MARTY KLINKENBERG; Staff WEEKEND WITH ... Ask a hockey fan to offer an opinion about Nazem Kadri and there are as many reactions as there are days of the [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS The Edmonton Oilers were prominent in Danielle Serdachny's childhood. Her father Steve was the NHL team's skills coach for a dozen years. Meeting players [...]

Byline: PAUL ATTFIELD; Staff At just 19 years of age, Shane Wright may not fit the dictionary definition of 'journeyman,' but given the 2022-23 season he has experienced, the literal [...]

Byline: CATHAL KELLY; Staff SATURDAY WITH ... Marie-Philip Poulin's plans for 2023 are pretty much the same plans she's had for the past decade or so - be the best [...]

Byline: SIMON HOUPT; Staff SATURDAY WITH... Never mind Freedom 55: P.K. Subban is making a delightful case for retirement at 33. Since hanging up his skates last fall, after 13 [...]

Byline: Samantha Pell With the return of Nicklas Backstrom and Tom Wilson on Sunday, winger Anthony Mantha was scratched for the first time in his Washington Capitals career. One day [...]

Byline: Bill Hartlep Dec. 18Julie Spinelli Class: Junior School: St. Joseph Sport: Basketball Report card: Spinelli had a pair of double-doubles this week as St. Joseph improved to 4-2. She [...]

Byline: LISA WALLACE; THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA -- When Daniel Alfredsson arrived in Ottawa in the fall of 1995, that 22-yearold would have never believed he'd one day find himself [...]

Byline: Bill Hartlep Oct. 15Macy Kubla Class: Senior School: Leechburg Sport: Volleyball Report card: Macy Kubla helped Leechburg's girls volleyball team to a pair of victories this week, as the [...]

Byline: MARTY KLINKENBERG; Staff TORONTO -- What a regular season the last was for Alexander Kerfoot. The Maple Leafs forward fit in nicely wherever he was placed and put up [...]

Byline: Seth Rorabaugh May 17Bryan Rust didn't consider the possibility. At least not until Sunday night. Game 7 of the Penguins' first-round round playoff series against the New York Rangers, [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS Rick Vaive knew his record wouldn't stand forever. The hometown of the Toronto Maple Leafs player to eventually surpass him was the surprise - at least [...]