Following last night’s pre-season game with the Chicago Blackhawks, the Detroit Red Wings this morning have assigned its top pick in this summer’s draft to the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Evgeny Svechnikov, selected in the First Round (19th Overall), by the Wings is a native of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia but he played last season

Graham Knott saw his stint with the Chicago Blackhawks come to an end on Wednesday (Sept. 24) as the team released him from camp. Knott, 18, from Etobicoke, ON was selected by the Hawks in the Second Round (54th Overall) of this past summer’s NHL Entry Draft. He will return for another season with the Niagara Ice

Tomas Tatar was the difference in a return match between the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks at the Joe Louis Arena Wednesday (Sept. 24). The same two teams met in pre-season play at the United Center in Chicago the previous night with the host Hawks opening the pre-season with a win. Tatar opened

All 22 North American Hockey League teams were in action Wednesday (Sept. 23) as the league kicked off its annual Showcase tournament at the Schwann Super Rink at Blaine, MN. Following are summaries from the regular season season games involving the league’s Midwest-based team on the first of our days of action. Ice Dogs 3

After falling for the first time the previous day at home to the St. Louis Jr. Blues, the Peoria Mustangs stormed back with a 7-2 win at the Owens Recreation Center on Sunday (Sept. 20). Other weekend wrap up games saw the Cincinnati Thunder wrapping up a hometown sweep of the visiting Toledo Cherokee 5-3

The Illiana Blackbirds evened its season record at 2-2 and collected a weekend sweep of the host Detroit Fighting Irish as Joe Timmerman, 18, from St. John, IN turned aside all 20 of the Fighting Irish shots on his way to a 2-0 shutout win at the Brownstone Sports Center Sunday (Sept. 20). The only