Alaska is hockey heaven -- the Alaska Aces are perennial ECHL contenders, the UAA Seawolves play in the nation's premier college league and NHL star Scott Gomez headlines a contingent of pros. Join the conversation about the Aces and Alaska hockey with Doyle Woody, who has covered the game here at all levels for 27 years.
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Former Aces Goalie Lamoureux Bags First AHL Shutout - 11/6/2009 5:57 pm
Anchorage's Wuthrich Flying The Team USA Flag - 11/6/2009 4:45 pm
Gutierrez Debuts In Johnstown (And Assorted Aces-Related Notes) - 11/5/2009 7:56 pm
In Praise Of Gene Williams, A Good Hockey Man Whose Legacy Lives On In Rinks All Over Anchorage - 11/4/2009 8:38 pm
Bring Your Blades And Skate With The Seawolves On Saturday Night - 11/4/2009 7:34 pm
Aces Update: Roster Shuffling - 11/4/2009 1:14 pm
Aces Release Gutierrez; And A Slew Of Non-Aces Hockey News - 11/3/2009 2:46 pm
Stingy Nanooks Move Up Rankings Behind Greenham's Goaltending - 11/2/2009 3:53 pm
Check Out Some Work By Goalies With Alaska Connections - 10/31/2009 8:07 pm
Former Aces Linglet & Minard Continue To Rack AHL Points - 10/31/2009 3:51 pm
A Most Brief Debut: Gutierrez Suspended 2 Games After Major Penalty In His First Aces Game - 10/31/2009 3:34 pm
UAA's Freshman Haven't Done Much - 10/31/2009 1:39 pm
Matt Carle Is Lighting It Up Again - 10/31/2009 12:55 pm
Cheverie's Injury Makes Anchorage's Murray The Man At DU For Now - 10/31/2009 11:41 am
The Small World Of Hockey Just Got Smaller (Nastiuk Signs With Idaho) - 10/29/2009 3:47 pm
Aces Lure Former NHLer Eric Boguniecki - 10/29/2009 10:11 am
No Dust On Glencross' Game - 10/28/2009 8:09 pm
ECHL Johnstown Releases Felde - 10/28/2009 4:04 pm
Aces Add A Big Body In Anchorage's Moises Gutierrez (6-4, 227) - 10/28/2009 12:05 pm
Alaskans In College Hockey: 66 Of Them (36 Men, 30 Women) - 10/27/2009 6:32 pm
Good News, Bad News: Lammers Is ECHL Player Of Week, But He's Outta Here - 10/27/2009 1:43 pm
Aces: Crum Catches A One-Game Suspension (That's A League-Leading 5 Games Worth So Far For Alaska) - 10/26/2009 1:30 pm
NOVEMBER 6, 2009 - 5:57 PM
Former Alaska Aces goaltender Jean-Philippe Lamoureux, who last season set an ECHL record when he bagged eight regular-season shutouts for the club as a rookie, tonight racked his first American Hockey League shutout.
Lamoureux stopped 28 shots for the Portland Pirates in a 7-0 win over visiting Hershey.
Lamoureux, Portland's No. 2 goalie, improved to 2-1-0 with a 2.90 goals-against average and .903 save percentage.
NOVEMBER 6, 2009 - 4:45 PM
Add another Anchorage hockey player to the list of those gaining international experience -- forward Austin Wuthrich is playing for Team USA in the 2009 Under-17 Four Nations Cup in Slovakia.
Wuthrich, 16, also represented the U.S. in the Five Nations Cup in August.
Wuthrich racked an assist today in a 7-6 win over Slovakia. The Americans (2-0-0) on Thursday beat Russia, 5-2. They close the tournament Saturday with a game against Switzerland.
Aside from this international gig, Wuthrich plays for the Team Illinois Midget Major squd in the Tier I Elite League. In 16 games on that circui
NOVEMBER 5, 2009 - 7:56 PM
Winger Moises Gutierrez of Anchorage, released by the ECHL's Alaska Aces earlier this week after a short stint with the club, debuted with the league's Johnstown Chiefs tonight in their 4-3 win at Cincinnati.
Gutierrez was even with three shots on goal.
Since we're referencing former Aces, former Alaska blueliner Peter Metcalf racked two assists and was +2 with, get this, a fighting major, for Florida tonight in a 7-0 ECHL win at Charlotte. Former Aces goaltender Chris Beckford-Tseu bagged a 28-save shutout. (And Florida's Jacob Micflikier, no real Aces connection, furnished three goals and three assists to give him ridonkulous 6-8--14 and +10 totals in a mere six games).
NOVEMBER 4, 2009 - 8:38 PM
Here's the deal: If you've run your skates across a sheet of ice in Anchorage, from youth leagues to the high-school circuit to adult rec leagues, you owe belated thanks to Gene Williams.
Williams, once honored by the Alaska State Legislature as the "Grandfather of Adult Hockey in Alaska,'' was that and more. He died Sunday at 83, but his legacy lives on all around this town.
It's hard not to think of Gene as an irresistible force once you realize that, from the time he hit town with his wife and their family in 1955 --Gene grew up in New York, played college football and lacrosse, was a World War II veteran and became a lawyer and judge -- he helped create and develop not just rec hockey, but high school hockey and high school football.
NOVEMBER 4, 2009 - 7:34 PM
Well, skate with the Seawolves after their WCHA series finale with Denver on Saturday night at Sullivan Arena, that is -- pretty sure UAA coach Dave Shyiak isn't gonna give you a shift during the actual game. I mean, it's a league game, after all, and he's probably already got his line combinations set.
In any event, bring your blades and get on the big sheet with the big boys after the league tilt. The first 250 skaters will be given a Seawolves beanie -- there's swag, and how cool is that? -- and the players will sign autographs during the skate.
Enjoy.
NOVEMBER 4, 2009 - 1:14 PM
The ever-changing active roster of the Alaska Aces is undergoing more transition.
As the team prepares to leave town Thursday for a three-game road trip to California, here is the latest:
Veteran forward Eric Boguniecki has been put on the seven-day injured-reserve list -- he's back in Massachusetts picking up his family (wife, three children) and coming back to Alaska. He still needs time to get in game shape, according to both Boguniecki and Aces coach Brent Thompson.
Meawhile, forwards Curtis Fraser (shoulder), Tomas Kana (shoulder) and Nick Mazzolini (knee) are coming off the 21-day IR and will play on the road trip. Rookie forward Jack Combs has been put on the 3-day IR.
NOVEMBER 3, 2009 - 2:46 PM
The Alaska Aces, their roster jam-packed to overflowing, today released winger Moises Gutierrez of Anchorage, whose debut with the team last Friday was a tough one.
Gutierrez, a third-year pro, played just 9:50 in his Aces debut -- tons of family and friends were in the Sullivan Arena stands -- before getting a major interference penalty and game misconduct. He subsequently was suspended two games by the ECHL, and now he's been released.
In other Alaska hockey news, UAF goaltender Scott Greenham was named the CCHA's Player of the Month. He's 5-0-1 with a 1.14 goals-against average and .949 save percentage.
NOVEMBER 2, 2009 - 3:53 PM
Check it out -- UAF is one of just three unbeaten Division I men's teams in the country among squads that have played more than two games.
Today, the Nanooks got some rewards for their 5-0-1 record, which they pumped up with a weekend CCHA sweep of visiting Ferris State. UAF won 3-1 Friday and 3-2 Saturday on the strength of sophomore Scott Greenham's goaltending in both games and Ron Meyers' goal with just 15 seconds left in OT in the series finale of UAF's conference-opening series.
The Nanooks moved up to No. 13 in the USCHO/CBS College Sports Poll, up from 16th, and were 14th in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll.
OCTOBER 31, 2009 - 8:07 PM
Well, it wasn't a masterpiece -- 30 saves on 35 shots rarely is -- but Toledo rookie goaltender Jordan Pearce of Anchorage stopped Kalamazoo's undefeated start to the ECHL season at six games.
Toledo beat Kalamazoo 7-5 tonight to knock the K-Wings (6-1-0) out of the unbeaten ranks. Been a tough pro start for Pearce, who is 2-1-0 with a 4.67 goals-against average and .851 save percentage.
Meanwhile, former Alaska Aces goalie Chris Holt kept Elmira (7-0-0) among the unbeatens with 25 saves in a 4-1 win over Trenton. Holt is 4-0-0 with a 1.74 goals-against average and .938 save percentage.
OCTOBER 31, 2009 - 3:51 PM
As the American Hockey League kicks off a slate of games tonight, former Alaska Aces winger Charles Linglet is tied for the league scoring leader after bagging two assists for the Springfield Falcons in a 3-2 OT loss to Lowell in an afternoon matinee.
Linglet owns 4-11--15 totals in 12 games, and leads the league in helpers.
Minard bagged two goals and a shootout goal Friday night in a 4-3 win over Albany. The former NHLer leads the league in goals (9), is tied for the lead in power-play strikes (5) and is fifth in points with 9-4--13 totals in 11 games. He sat out today's game after complaining of a headache following Friday's match, according to the Springfield Republican.
OCTOBER 31, 2009 - 3:34 PM
Wow -- this may set some kind of mark for briefest Alaska Aces debut.
Not only did winger Moises Gutierrez of Anchorage get the gate just 9 minutes, 50 seconds into his Aces debut Friday night -- he racked a five-minute major and game misconduct for an interference penalty that leveled Idaho's Matt McKnight -- but now the ECHL has suspended him for two games. Gutierrez will sit out tonight and Sunday -- both matches are against Idaho.
I'd imagine that means Brett Hemingway is back in the lineup. McKnight, according to an Idaho spokesman Friday night, was taken to the hospital to get checked out after taking that hit to the head.
OCTOBER 31, 2009 - 1:39 PM
The transition from junior hockey to Division I is a big jump up, and so far for UAA's first-year forwards it looks like a leap they're struggling mightily to make.
UAA's five freshman forwards -- Alex Gellert (1-1--2 in 7 games), Mickey Spencer (0-1--1 in 6), Daniel Naslund (0-1--1 in 7), Mitch Bruijsten (0-0--0 in 7) and Chris Crowell (0-0--0 and -6 in 7) -- have combined for just one goal and three assists, and gone -12, in a combined 34 games.
On the back end, freshman defenseman Lee Baldwin has furnished three assists in seven games and freshman blueliner Drew Darwitz is without a point in six games.
OCTOBER 31, 2009 - 12:55 PM
Speaking of DU (see previous entry), former Pioneers defenseman Matt Carle of Anchorage is putting up some serious numbers for the Philadelphia Flyers.
Carle, the fourth-year pro who in his three years at Denver won two national titles and the Hobey Baker Memorial Award as college hockey's best player, supplied one goal and two assists, and was +2, in a 6-1 Flyers win today over visiting Carolina today.
With 2-10--12 totals in 11 games, he's tied for third in points among NHL defensemen. And at +9, he's tied for fourth in that category among blueliners.
Carle, 25, last season went 5-21--26 and +3 in 76 games, mostly with the Flyers after a trade from Tampa Bay. This season, he looks like he's returning to the form that made him an All-Rookie pick with the San Jose Sharks in 2006-07 (11-31--42 and +9 in 77 games).
OCTOBER 31, 2009 - 11:41 AM
Expect to see freshman Adam Murray of Anchorage in goal for the University of Denver twice next week, when the Pioneers -- ranked No. 2 nationally in one poll, No. 3 in another -- come here to play a Western Collegiate Hockey Association series against UAA.
That's because Pioneers junior standout Marc Cheverie left early in the third period of Friday night's 4-3 win over Minnesota State-Mankato after suffering a cut to his left leg. Cheverie was carried off on a stretcher. The Denver Post’s Mike Chambers reports DU coach George Gwozdecky saying Cheverie could miss a couple weeks.
OCTOBER 29, 2009 - 3:47 PM
Everyone always says hockey is a small world, and more proof has arrived with Idaho's signing of Kevin Nastiuk, the former Alaska Aces goaltender the Aces released in training camp earlier this month.
And wouldn't you know it? The Steelheads are here this week for a three-game, ECHL series that opens Friday at Sullivan Arena.
The Steelheads (5-0-0) ran into a goaltender shortage when the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League plucked Rejean Beauchemin off their roster. Beauchemin for Idaho is 3-0-0 with a 1.67 goals-against average and .940 save percentage. Nastiuk will back up rookie Richard Bachman, the former Colorado College goalie.
OCTOBER 29, 2009 - 10:11 AM
The ECHL's Alaska Aces added another forward today -- he's likely on the practice ice as this is written -- in former NHLer Eric Boguniecki, who owns 178 games of regular-season experience in the NHL.
Boguniecki, 34, last season played for the Iowa Chops of the American Hockey League, earning 18-16--34 totals in 69 games.
He last played in the NHL in 2006-07, getting 11 games with the Islanders. His NHL stops also included Florida, St. Louis and Pittsburgh, and he once racked a 20-goal-plus season in the NHL (St. Louis, 2002-03, 22-27--49 totals in 80 games). In 178 career NHL games, he earned 34-42--76 totals.
OCTOBER 28, 2009 - 8:09 PM
Former UAA winger Curtis Glencross and the Calgary Flames fell 3-2 to the Colorado Avalanche tonight, but Glencross kept up his strong performance of late, at least judging by the score sheet.
Glencross furnished an assist, went +1 and fired four shots. He owns points in five of the last six games, and in that span he is 3-2--5 and +7.
In 11 games this season, he owns 4-2--6 totals and a +9 rating.
OCTOBER 28, 2009 - 4:04 PM
Defenseman Erik Felde of Anchorage, a second-year pro who began his career with the Alaska Aces, was released by ECHL Johnstown today.
Felde, 21, who can also play forward, played in three games for the Chiefs (0-3-1). He didn't score a point and went -2.
The Chiefs are the only club on the 20-team circuit without a win.
OCTOBER 28, 2009 - 12:05 PM
Plagued by injuries and the call-up of their first-line center to the American Hockey League, the ECHL's Alaska Aces have added big winger Moises Gutierrez of Anchorage.
The 6-foot-4, 227-pound Gutierrez, a sixth-round draft pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2004 and a third-year pro, practiced with the club today. He was released by ECHL Utah in training camp.
Gutierrez, 23, last season earned 11-12--23 totals and 83 penalty minutes in 37 games with ECHL Elmira, and also played two AHL games. As a rookie with ECHL Texas in 2007-08, he put up 9-16--25 totals in 42 games and also put up 1-1--2 totals in 6 AHL games for Houston.
OCTOBER 27, 2009 - 6:32 PM
It's time for our annual survey of how many Alaskans are playing U.S. college hockey -- "annual'' in the sense that, until whatever year I get tired of looking at the computer for a couple hours to compile the list -- and the number is basically status quo compared to last season.
In all -- after perusing rosters on collegehockeystats.net, uscho.com and various school sites -- we came up with 66 Alaskans playing at colleges. That's a Mario Lemieux sweater number worth of folks (66). Man, hope I didn't miss a kid because a Max Pacioretty reference just ain't gonna play.
The breakdown: 36 men, 30 women. For comparison's sake, last year we came up with 64 Alaskans, 35 men and 29 women.
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