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Longtime NHL forward John LeClair was assigned to the minors by the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday for the second time this month.
LeClair was placed on waivers last week but was not claimed by another team. The Penguins then assigned him to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the AHL before putting him on re-entry waivers, which would have required any club claiming him to pay half of the remaining share of his US$1.5 ...
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The Boston Bruins assigned centre Yan Stastny to Providence of the American Hockey League on Thursday.
The Bruins recalled Stastny on Wednesday, but he did not play in their 4-3 shootout win over Pittsburgh.
Stastny, 24, is in his second season with the Bruins after being acquired along with Marty Reasoner and Milan Lucic for Sergei Samsonov on March 9, 2006.
In 11 games with the Bruins this season, Stastny ...
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The Boston Bruins recalled defenceman Mark Stuart from their AHL affiliate in Providence before playing the Florida Panthers on Monday.
Stuart, the team's first-round pick in the 2003 draft, has been recovering from off-season knee surgery. He was assigned to Providence on Nov. 7 and had a goal and three assists in four games.
Stuart had one goal and an assist in 17 games for the Bruins last year, and ...
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The Edmonton Oilers assigned winger
Alexei Mikhnov to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American
Hockey League on Saturday.
Mikhnov, the Oilers' first choice in the 2000 draft, made his NHL
debut with Edmonton in a 5-2 win versus the Phoenix Coyotes on Oct.
23. He was scoreless over four minutes 21 seconds of ice time in his
only game to date this season.
Mikhnov joined the Oilers this season after playing the last nine
seasons in Russia. His ...
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David Backes scored twice and the Peoria Rivermen
relied exclusively on special-teams in a 4-2 win over the Hamilton
Bulldogs on Saturday in the American Hockey League.
Backes had power-play goals in each of the first two periods
while Mike Glumac added a man-advantage goal and Cam Keith a
third-period shorthanded goal for the Rivermen (4-2-0-1). Peoria
finished 3-for-5 on the power play.
Michael Lambert and Maxim Lapierre, with his second goal in as
many games, countered for ...
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Rookie goalie Adam Dennis made 54 saves to lead
the Rochester Americans to their sixth consecutive win to open the
American Hockey League season, nipping the host Toronto Marlies 3-1
on Saturday night.
Left winger Dylan Hunter and right wingers Drew Stafford and
Anthony Stewart, with an empty-netter, scored for the Americans in
front of 3,777 fans at Ricoh Coliseum.
Right winger Brad Leeb had the lone marker for Toronto, who fell
to 2-3-1.
Dennis stopped 22 shots in ...
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Brad Leeb scored twice and added an assist to lead
the Toronto Marlies to a 5-4 win over the Hamilton Bulldogs on
Friday night in the American Hockey League.
Leeb opened the scoring with a shorthanded goal 3:09 into the
game and added a power-play goal midway through the second period to
pace the Marlies (2-2-1-0). Eric Westrum and Colin Murphy each added
a goal and an assist while Jeff Corey also scored for Toronto.
Kris Newberry ...
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Scott Reid made 24 saves for his first career
American Hockey League shutout as the Milwaukee Admirals blanked the
Manitoba Moose 2-0 Friday night.
Reid helped fight off five Manitoba power plays while Paul Brown
and Rich Peverley, with an empty-netter, scored for the Admirals
(2-2-0-0). Milwaukee went 0-for-7 with the man advantage.
Drew McIntyre made 31 saves for the Moose (2-4-1-0).
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Mikael Tellqvist's first American League game in more than a year did not end as he or the Toronto Marlies had hoped.
Sent down to the Marlies on a conditioning stint earlier in the day, Tellqvist made 29 saves but could not hold back the defending AHL champion Hershey Bears, who overcame an early two-goal deficit to beat Toronto 5-4 in overtime Sunday at Ricoh Coliseum.
``It's tough on Mikael,'' ...
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Keith Aucoin scored two goals to lead the
Albany River Rats to a 3-2 win over the Hamilton Bulldogs in
American Hockey League action Saturday.
The River Rats (2-1-0-0) opened the scoring on the power play at
5:46 of the first period when Scott Kelman scored his first goal of
the season. Kelman, parked in front of the Bulldogs (1-2-0-0) net,
tipped home a shot by Pat Dwyer.
Albany increased their lead to 2-0 at 17:04 of ...
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Toronto Marlies goalie Jean-Francois Racine didn't
mince words after giving up a couple of soft goals against the Grand
Rapids Griffins Friday.
``I'll take the blame for the loss,'' he said following a 4-2
American Hockey League defeat in front of 3,105 fans at Ricoh
Coliseum. ``The first two goals shouldn't have gone in.
``All I can do is learn from tonight and be ready to go for my
next start.''
Forwards Kris Kolanos, Matt Ellis and Kip ...
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The Phoenix Coyotes recalled rookie defenceman Keith Yandle from the AHL's San Antonio Rampage on Tuesday to replace the injured Keith Ballard.
Ballard suffered a fracture in his right hand during the Coyotes' 5-1 loss in Columbus on Monday and is expected to be out a month.
Yandle, named the top defenceman in the CHL while playing for Moncton last year, had two assists in two games with San Antonio ...
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With right-winger Nikolai Zherdev set to
return, the Columbus Blue Jackets assigned centre Geoff Platt to the
Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League on Sunday.
Zherdev is expected to make his regular season debut against the
Phoenix Coyotes on Monday night.
The restricted free agent appeared set to play in Russia this
season, but the two sides agreed on a US$7.5-million, three-year
deal on Sept. 28.
The 21-year-old Ukrainian was second in goals (27) and points
(54) with ...
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Jason Jaffray scored two goals to lead the
Manitoba Moose over the Toronto Marlies 5-2 in American Hockey
League action Saturday.
Jesse Schultz, Jannik Hansen and Brad Moran also scored for the
Moose (1-1-1-0), who took a three-goal lead in the first period and
never looked back.
Robbie Earl and Erik Westrum replied for the Marlies (1-1-0-0),
who trounced Syracuse 6-0 in their season opener Friday.
Playing in front of an announced crowd of 3,650 at Ricoh
Coliseum, Manitoba ...
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The Atlanta Thrashers assigned goalie Fred
Brathwaite to Chicago of the American Hockey League on Saturday.
Brathwaite was 1-1 in the pre-season, allowing 4.29 goals per
game. He and Johan Hedberg were added in the off-season to play
behind Kari Lehtonen. Hedberg remains on the roster as Lehtonen's
top backup.
Brathwaite spent the past two seasons with Ak-Bars Kazan of
Russian Super League.
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The Toronto Marlies started the 2006-07 season on
the right foot, pounding the Syracuse Crunch 6-0 Friday night in
their season and home opener.
Erik Westrum, Brett Engelhardt, Jiri Tlusty, Kris Newbury, Owen
Fussey and Domenic D'Amour scored for the Marlies before an
announced crowd of 4,218 at Ricoh Coliseum. Goalie Jean-Francois
Racine turned aside 20 Crunch shots for his first shutout as a
Marlie.
Toronto opened the scoring at 8:20 of the first, when Westrum
took a feed ...
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The Vancouver Canucks assigned backup goaltender
Wade Flaherty to the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League on
Friday.
Flaherty didn't see any action in the Canucks' season-opening 3-1
win over Detroit on Thursday. The 38-year-old spent the majority of
last season with the Moose, posting a 26-14-4 record with a 2.40
goals-against average in 49 games.
Flaherty was made expendable after the Canucks claimed former
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Dany Sabourin off waivers earlier
this week.
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Erik Christensen's power-play goal with 17 seconds left in overtime gave Wilkes-Barre/Scranton a 3-2 win over the Manitoba Moose in the AHL season opener Wednesday night.
Jannik Hansen was off for tripping when Christensen's wrist shot eluded goalie Drew MacIntyre.
Manitoba's Brad Moran banged in a rebound for the first goal of the AHL's 71st season at 3:30 of the first period.
Alain Nasreddine tied it with a short-handed goal ...
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The Toronto Marlies have a new coach, a new hotshot goaltending prospect and a slew of new players. Despite the changes, Greg Gilbert is focusing on continuity.
``What's important is that what's being taught to the Maple Leafs players is being taught to the Marlies players,'' said Gilbert, who replaced Paul Maurice behind the bench. ``We want to have that continuity within the organization ... we think that helps give ...
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If familiarity breeds success, new Manitoba Moose coach Scott Arniel should have his team skating smoothly into the American Hockey League playoffs this season.
The former Buffalo Sabres assistant is Manitoba's fourth head coach in as many seasons, but it's a team he knows very well.
Arniel played for the Moose from 1996 to '99 and served as its assistant from 2000-02.
He takes over the head coaching job from ...
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