Nick Leigh Receives NCAA Varisty Collegiate Hockey offers

They said it couldn't be done here but it has occurred nonetheless. An unprecedented seven players in the current Atlanta Knights Junior Hockey program have received offers to play NCAA Varsity Collegiate hockey with Division I and III institutions. Five other Knights players are under consideration by NCAA programs for 2010.

There have been many big victories in the 37 years that Georgia Tech has iced a club hockey team, but probably none has been as emotional or as satisfying as the Yellow Jackets’ 7-1 win over rival Georgia on Jan. 17 in Savannah, Ga.

Boston’s Zdeno Chara sets new Hardest Shot record with 105.4 mile-per-hour effort with an Easton stick

VAN NUYS, Calif. – Easton Hockey, the manufacturer of the No. 1 stick and glove in the NHL, contributed to 63 percent of the goals scored in the 2009 NHL All-Star game, plus Zdeno Chara’s record setting 105.4 mile-per-hour shot in the Cisco NHL Hardest Shot competition.

No. 1 vs. No. 2: Capitals travel to Boston

Washington looks to continue their dominance against the Eastern Conference leading Boston Bruins tonight for  the third of four meetings between theses two teams and the first of two meetings in Boston. 

North Stars make it four in a row after weekend sweep

Amid the best season in the program’s four-year history, the Traverse City North Stars continue to pile up the wins, locking down two more last weekend over the Marquette Rangers to extend their winning streak to four games.

MONTREAL — NHL commissioner Gary Bettman returned to the site where the NHL was founded and where he took over 16 years ago, and showed no sign that the league’s board of governors were ready to change hockey by eliminating fighting.

MONTREAL – Gary Bettman was reminded on Saturday about his initial plans to deal with fighting when he became NHL commissioner 16 years ago. Basically, Bettman said circa 1993 there would be healthy debate, a decision made and the issue put to rest.