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Paul Coffey to rejoin Oilers coaching staff

The Edmonton Oilers are bringing Paul Coffey back to their coaching staff. Rumours began to swirl ahead of the Olympic break about Coffey’s potential return, but they seemed to be just that. Until Wednesday, that is, when the team announced the move. Paul Coffey is returning to the #Oilers coaching staff. https://t.co/A8ekYJUdwr — Edmonton Oilers…

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Scenes from Morning Skate: Canada vs. Czechia, round two

When the puck hits the ice hours from now for Canada’s quarterfinal matchup against Czechia, the narrative story practically writes itself. It’s the top-seeded Canadians vs. the eighth-seeded Czechs, who survived the qualifying round and eeked out a 3-2 win over Denmark Tuesday morning. Canada has earned the right to call it an easy game,…

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Brown Coaching Search Heating Up

Brown has narrowed its coaching choices to four, according to Providence hockey reporter Mark Divver.According to his report, Brown is zeroing in on Dartmouth assistant Jason Tapp; Brown alum Scott Ford, who is an assistant coach in the NHL with Columbus; Tommy Upton, an assistant at Massachusetts; and Arizona State assistant Dana Borges.Current Brown coach Brendan Whittet announced he was stepping...

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Surging Minnesota State Eyes Top-4 Finish

With four regular-season games left before the CCHA’s Mason Cup Playoffs, the Minnesota State Mavericks sit on the outside looking in at home-ice advantage.For Minnesota State, a program that has won the conference three times since the CCHA reformed in 2021-22, finishing outside of the top four would be something unfamiliar. A 16-9-5 record has the Mavericks sitting at 41 points, where they slimly...

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Valuable Valente

Liam Valente put up 20 points over his two seasons at Providence, as the Swedish forward skated in 59 games for the Friars.Valente committed to Providence relatively late in the game and had never previously considered college hockey. However, one of his best friends and childhood teammates – Philip Svedebäck – was a Providence commit, and the Friars expressed interest in the left-shot forward...

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OGDB 4.0: Canada looks to punch ticket to semi-finals against Czechia (8:40 AM MT, CBC)

Canada breezed through the preliminary round, going 3-0, outscoring Czechia, Switzerland and France 20-3 and outshooting them 121-65. They were expected to dominate, and they did, but now they enter the playoff round and another date with Czechia. The Czechs defeated Denmark 3-2 yesterday, and they will be looking for a better performance than their…

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Oilers loan Matt Savoie to AHL’s Bakersfield Condors

Back to the Condors? The Edmonton Oilers loaned forward Matt Savoie to the Bakersfield Condors on Tuesday afternoon. The Oilers’ rookie forward has been up with the NHL club since the beginning of the season, scoring nine goals and 18 points this season. He’s played all 58 games. Bob Stauffer of 880 CHED says this…

27 days ago | 5 reads

No Red Leafs In Canada West

Despite the logic of having a third BC-based university hockey program under Canada West's watch, the dream of seeing the Simon Fraser University Red Leafs make the jump to U SPORTS hockey is now dead-on-arrival with the news that was reported yesterday. I know that SFU is experiencing a "tightening of the purse strings" like most of the big universities across Canada, but the men's at-large hockey program that played against both U SPORTS and NCAA competitors whenever possible is officially b...

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28 days ago | 0 reads

Draisaitl helps Germans punch ticket to Olympic quarterfinals with win over France: Recap, Reaction, and Highlights

For just the second time with National Hockey League players, Team Germany has made the Olympic quarterfinals. They punched their ticket Tuesday morning in a qualification game against France, beating them 5-1 with a one-goal, three-point performance from Leon Draisaitl. The Germans’ win sets up a quarterfinals matchup against Slovakia on Wednesday. Two and a…

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28 days ago | 1 read

Ranking the 14 potential Olympic men’s hockey gold medal matchups

With all 12 teams technically still alive in the Olympic men’s hockey tournament entering Tuesday’s qualification games, there are a huge number of possibilities ahead for the medal rounds. As of this moment, however, there are only 14 gold-medal game matchups, however, that are plausible — which we’re defining as odds of 1 percent or greater. >> Read the full post at The Athletic (Want to read this post on The Athletic for free? Sign up for a free trial .)

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