Ever since Anthony Noreen arrived in Kearney in 2017, all Tri-City Storm fans have known is success. The Storm have been amongst the USHL’s most consistent teams under Noreen, producing five straight playoff appearances, a pair of Anderson Cups and 175 regular-season wins.

The ECHL has been a valuable league in helping young goaltenders transition to professional hockey, and Ryan Bednard’s trajectory with the Greenville Swamp Rabbits is encouraging.

On Thursday, Dryden McKay — College Hockey’s Mr. Zero — was named a Hobey Hat Trick Finalist, the only goalie among the final three candidates for the NCAA player of the year. The announcement came less than two weeks after the All-American had hit an all-time low point as a Division I athlete. 

Not long after the ink dried on an entry-level contract with the National Hockey League’s Nashville Predators, goaltender Devin Cooley has quickly shown them he’s worth the investment.

It was never supposed to be this hard for Hayden Hawkey.

A quick glance at the numbers shows the incredible development of Tulsa Oilers goaltender Roman Durny on the ice.

It would have been easy for Scott Wedgewood to put his season in the ECHL in the rear-view mirror for good.

On the heels of a huge Saturday night performance, [team:Greenville Swamp Rabbits] netminder Ryan Bednard was named the Warrior Hockey / [category:ECHL] Goaltender of the Week on Tuesday afternoon.

As a 17-year-old, Roni Salmenkangas was just another goalie in Finland, toiling in Junior B with unimpressive numbers in 2016-17. Not surprisingly, the altitude of his career track was well below the radar of North American scouts. Last season, however, the slender goalie put up extraordinary numbers in Finland’s Junior A League for HPK, which got his club into the playoffs, but was too late to generate feelers from U.S. colleges or major junior squads. 

The seniors at the University of Alabama Huntsville led the team to its best record of their four-year tenure, but their departures will leave the Chargers with a reliance on youth heading into the 2018-19 campaign.

The annual festivities of Canada Day saw the biggest fish get caught in the NHL’s free agent frenzy as teams loaded up for the future with new depth.

After an incredible inaugural season that rewrote what it means to be an expansion team in professional sports, the Vegas Golden Knights are ready for another string of firsts as general manager George McPhee enters the 2018 offseason.