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KHL updates: Another couple of low scoring games by SKA followed by explosive performance, Sochi splits weekend outing
SKA Saint Petersburg: Game 27: Wednesday, November 13th SKA 1-0 Sibir Novosibirsk (SO) Game 28: Friday, November 15th SKA 2-3 Ak Bars Kazan (OT) Game 29: Monday, November 18th SKA 6-3 Amur Khabarovsk The first game of the two-game eastern road swing was marked by a goalie duel. Flyers prospect Yegor Zavragin, returning to his… Read more
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LEC Radar: Plymouth State Stays Hot, NEC Gets Rolling
The weekend of November 16th,2024 was yet another exciting and turbulent weekend of Division 3 College Hockey, albeit with the biggest headlines taking place over in Minnesota (Aurora/Adrian Series) rather than in New England; however, top ranked teams like Hobart still had business with the future LEC programs. As alluded to in my post… Read more
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Prospects to Know: Who is… Jaxon Jacobson?
Herein, we continue down the short list of players in this recent WHC-17 that I wished to write about. In this instance, I have been beating the drum for this player quite often on the Black Stitch Hockey podcast and in social conversations. However, I did not find the time right to commit an article… Read more
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KHL updates: Gazprom Cup II goes down; SKA skid spirals out of control while Sochi finds some degree of success (okay, maybe not in that last one)
Collision of fates: Thursday, November 7th: HC Sochi 5-2 SKA Saint Petersburg While this strays from the usual format of ending on this matchup, I thought starting with this was appropriate to lead off with this game for this edition of the series as it is emblematic of SKA’s recent woes (it also made logical… Read more
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LEC Radar: Monitoring Next Year’s Power Conference
I would like to open this new series by saying I know that I am a whole year early on starting this series, and that I’m aware the Little East Conference will not officially be a hockey “league” until the 2025-26 season. However, in anticipation of its massive impact on the New England Division… Read more
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MCLA @ Salem State: Will Nepveu Earns His Flowers
On November 9th, 2024 at 2:00pm EST, MCLA and Salem State got their MASCAC seasons underway at Rockett Arena. Both teams entered the game with winless interconference records with MCLA having dropped two road contests to St. Michael’s, and Salem State having dropped their opener to Salve Regina and a tight overtime contest to… Read more