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Q&A With: Minnesota Coach Brett Larson

Brett Larson was named the new coach at Minnesota earlier this offseason. He comes after a stint as head coach at St. Cloud State. It's the second consecutive job where he'll be following Bob Motzko, who agreed to a departure agreement with the school in March.Larson played and coached previously at Minnesota Duluth. He reached the 2021 national championship game as head coach at St. Cloud.CHN: Congrats...

New Government Rule Jeopardizes 5th-Year Eligibility

Less than a month after the NCAA approved new age rules that included five years of eligibility for all players, a United States government rule change could eliminate the opportunity for half of college hockey.The pros and cons of the NCAA's new eligibility standards have been well-debated for months. Where it landed — with players being allowed to play for five years — has positives and negatives...

A deep dive into the Edmonton Oilers’ 2026-27 schedule

Get those travel rewards points ready, hockey fans, because the National Hockey League released its 2026-27 schedule Thursday. This year marks the first since the 1993-94 season in which the league played 84 games, and for NHL teams, that means after years of facing some division rivals four times a year and others three, there…

The Hockey Show - Episode 721

The Hockey Show , Canada's only campus-produced radio show that strictly talks hockey, is back with some new introductions, some more hockey stories, and some opinions from our two hosts about everything happening in hockey. It's been a fairly quiet week for a lot of the hockey world as schedules were released for the NHL today which flooded social media, but there were still stories to hit the wires this week that need to be discussed. Our hosts will dive into those newsworthy pieces tonight ...

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Brown Hires Peffall as Assistant

New Brown head coach Tom Upton has brought on Tom Peffall as an assistant coach.A native of Ambler, Pa., Peffall was on Mercyhurst's staff since 2022. He was named last year to be the replacement for retiring Mercyhurst coach Rick Gotkin. But Mercyhurst's administration abruptly eliminated the men's hockey program this spring.The 39-year old Peffall had a brief minor-league playing career, then worked...

NHL Notebook: Steve Yzerman steps down as Detroit Red Wings GM

A bombshell broke Wednesday morning when the Detroit Red Wings announced the end of the Yzerplan. Steve Yzerman has stepped down as vice-president and general manager, the club announced. While he’ll remain with the team as a senior advisor to CEO and team governor Chris Ilitch, a search will begin for a new head of…

Connor Ungar’s impressive stretches make him an intriguing Oilers prospect

Connor Ungar got in his miles last season. The Edmonton Oilers prospect netminder played all over the United States, including a stunning sequence of starts for the Bakersfield Condors. What’s the key to playing for four different teams in one season? “Just try and stop the puck,” said Ungar during Oilers Development Camp. “Your teammates…

Revisiting the Oilers’ Summer of Jeff two years later

It’s hard to believe two years have already passed since the infamous “Summer of Jeff” in Edmonton. A time when the hockey world collectively praised Jeff Jackson for his work as interim GM of the Edmonton Oilers. Jackson’s moves that offseason were universally celebrated. But it wasn’t long before the fans and analysts were proven…

Oilers to open 2026-27 NHL season at home against Canucks

The Edmonton Oilers will open their 2026-27 season welcoming a familiar foe to Rogers Place: the Vancouver Canucks. And for the Oilers, they will kick off the season on Sept. 29, the earliest start to a season in franchise history. Puck drop is set for 8 p.m. MT. It’s all part of a doubleheader opening…

Three In Three Days

I don't know where the NHL stumbled onto the idea of having people act as "senior advisors", but this is now the third-straight day where a senior advisor has been named to an executive running a team. Aside from having experience doing a job, all three of these senior advisors have yet to prove that all their experience and knowledge matters since none of the teams they ran won anything. Today, you can add Steve Yzerman's name to the "senior advisor" roster in the NHL after he stepped down as...

NHL offer sheet rules used to be wild. Here’s how history looks if that never changes

There’s a good chance that years from now, we’ll look back at these last few weeks as the dawn of the offer sheet era, with the Barret Hayton shot followed by a massive Leo Carlsson chaser. Things got crazy. But it could have been crazier. So much crazier. Gather round, kids, grandpa’s got a quick story time. The concepts of restricted free agents and offers sheets first appears in the NHL in 1988, and for the first few years they looked very different from what we know today. In certain circu...

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