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A hockey game must go on -- even when it's in Australia.
Stephen White, who calls the action as an announcer for ATC Productions, which covers the Australian Ice Hockey League, wound up calling Sunday's game between the Newcastle North Stars and Melbourne Ice in an entirely different way.
Linesman Casper Russelhuber was crunched accidentally by two players during the first period, suffering a mild concussion and a badly lacerated index finger from a skate cut.
Russelhuber couldn't...
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Written by Patrick Raftis - The Wellington Advertiser
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When the puck dropped for game four of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ first playoff series in nine years on May 8, Drayton native Scott Cherrey was right in the thick of things.
An NHL linesman since 2007, Cherrey was working the first round of the playoffs for the third consecutive year and drew the assignment for Toronto’s second home game.
Thanks in part to that other famous NHL Cherry, broadcaster Don, there was a little more focus than usual on face-off puck drops, largely handled by the...
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Written by Andrew Podnieks
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STOCKHOLM – “Swedish” and “pioneer” have appeared in the same sentence many times in the last half century of North American hockey. First, there was Ulf Sterner, the first European-trained player to skate in the NHL, during the 1964-65 season. Then there was Borje Salming, the first European to become an NHL star.
Ulf Nilsson and Anders Hedberg formed the first international line with Bobby Hull in the WHA a short time later. Lars-Erik Sjöberg was the first European captain of...
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PRINCETON, N.J. - The ECHL on Wednesday announced that linesman Brad Phillips is the 2012-13 recipient of the Ryan Birmingham Memorial Award.
The award honors an On-Ice Official for his contributions and dedication to the league officiating staff and is determined in voting of ECHL On-Ice Officials. It is named in honor of ECHL linesman Ryan Birmingham who tragically lost his life in an automobile accident in May 2007.
“I would like to thank my fellow officials for selecting me as the...
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The seven officials who were selected to officiate the CHL Playoffs bonded together not just on the ice, but off the ice as well as they rallied together to show their support for not only a community but a member of their fraternity who was from that very community.
The officials selected to work the finals were Zac Blazic, Kevin Cassidy, Brent Coulombe, Kevin Curtis, Brandon Gawryletz, Mike Kehoe and Peter Tarnaris.
Curtis is from Canton, Massachusetts (about 15 miles from Boston) and...
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