With the NHL entry draft, Las Vegas expansion draft, and a free agent frenzy, a number of players with ties to Manitoba saw their hockey futures shift substantially.

The league, which will be called the Canadian Premier League (CPL), will be a six to eight team league starting in 2018

As the first professional women’s hockey league to pay its players, the NWHL caught the attention of many in the hockey community.

Following a week-long standoff between the women of the U.S. Women’s National Hockey Team (USWNT) and USA Hockey, the country’s governing hockey body blinked.

The central issues of the dispute seem to be unfair wages paid to the players, as well as the level of support the highly successful program receives from USA Hockey.

After months of speculation and verbal jabbing through the media, Georges “Rush” St-Pierre is returning to the octagon.

Duke, a former Minnesota Wild draft pick back in 2014, has spent the last three years with the Brandon Wheat Kings.