Category: Puck Blog

Former Pittsburgh Penguin Alexei Morozov missed leading the Russian Super League in points for the third consecutive season by one point (Sergei Mozyakin led the league with 64 points). However, after the conclusion of the regular season on Saturday, Morozov was still voted the RSL’s best player. Morozov finished with 30 goals (which led his

On Wednesday night (February 27th) at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square, Brian Leetch was honored by the 2011 World Police and Fire Games, which is a non-profit organization made up of both active and retired New York City and Pennsylvania police officers and firefighters. The 2011 WPFG acknowledge role models, athletes

Tampa Bay Lightning Captain Tim Taylor, a 13-year veteran, has been getting praise across the NHL for his attempt at returning to the ice following hip resurfacing surgery on September 6th, 2007. He is trying to become the first player in a contact sport to play following this major procedure. Taylor has been progressing better

Congratulations to Ilya Kovalchuk, who took home the 2008 Pro Athlete of the Year Award at the Atlanta Sports Awards Monday night. For Kovalchuk, this has been a season full of accolades and one in which he has become a leader and put the Thrashers on his back: he recently played in the All-Star Game

Congratulations to PuckAgency client Riku Helenius, who earned the CHL co-goaltender of the week award this week! Riku has been impressive for the Seattle Thunderbirds; his .917 save percentage and 2.37 goals against average are good for 5th and 9th respectively in the Western Hockey League. Helenius will go for his sixth straight victory tonight

Alexander Radulov set two career-highs last night in Nashville’s 4-2 victory over Columbus at the Sommet Center: his 19th goal surpassed his previous high, set in his rookie year of 2006-07(18) and upped his goal streak to five consecutive games. This is Radulov’s second goal-scoring streak of at least three games-he previously had a three-game

I first met Brian at the US National Program’s summer camp in 1986 in a dingy old time arena in Greensboro, North Carolina. Our firm’s President (then Athletes and Artists, Inc., now PuckAgency LLC) Art Kaminsky and I had always believed Brian had the chance to be a world class player. What we didn’t know

Another edition of the IIHF World Junior Championship is in the books and once again, Canada has taken home the Gold. Pardubice and Liberec in the Czech Republic played host to a fantastic tournament, capped off by the fourth title won by Canada in as many years. The World Juniors is the annual showcase for

As the NHL season approaches the halfway mark, the December break period in the Russian Super League (RSL) has just ended. The RSL is increasingly getting more attention due to the plethora of former NHL players in the league. For example, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl has 4 players who played in the NHL in 2006-07 on its

Last night in Dallas was significant for Stars’ defenseman Sergei Zubov in more ways than one. Not only did he post his 6th career 4-point night, he also passed Dave Gagner for 6th all-time on the Stars’ scoring list and took over the lead as the top scoring defenseman in the league this season with