For every young hockey player with their sights set on the NHL, the Memorial Cup is easily their first major proving ground. Every player on the ice is a champion in their own right, having won their league title to get there.
On another edition of Friday Night, fight night at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium, the Kitchener Rangers earned their first win of the season against the Sault Ste.
Czechia came into this game as favorites and won 6-2, but Switzerland didn’t go down without a fight, and was step for step with them until the second period.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
On a frigid night at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium, the Kitchener Rangers hosted the Peterborough Petes for the first of two matchups this season against the Ontario Hockey League’s (OHL) second-most winning franchise.
It’s rivalry week across the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). On Friday night, we got to watch the Kitchener Rangers and London Knights square off, one of the OHL’s most anticipated rivalries.
On Friday, Dec. 27, teams Switzerland and Slovakia were looking to get into the win column in their second games of the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship that is being held in Ottawa, ON.
The San Jose Sharks got the best goalie on their board. Christian Kirsch, selected by Mike Grier with the 116th pick of the fourth round, had a 2.32 goals-against average in 30 games with Zug U20 of the Swiss Elit league.