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News Articles: hockey

Savannah Ghost Pirates head coach Rick Bennett speaks behind a podium an event at Enmarket Arena, where the team's NHL affiliation was announced. A woman wearing a Las Vegas showgirl outfit stands to the side, holding up the gold-colored right wing of her outfit.

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Savannah Ghost Pirates minor league hockey team announces NHL affiliation with Vegas Golden Knights

Savannah's new minor-league hockey squad will serve as a farm team for the Vegas Golden Knights of the NHL.

May 20, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
Finland's Minnamari Tuominen (left) and Team USA's Alexandra Carpenter vie for the puck next to Finland's goaltender Anni Keisala during the women's ice hockey semi-final match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

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U.S. women will face Canada in the Olympic hockey gold medal match

The U.S. women's ice hockey team defeated Finland 4-1 on Monday. The U.S. team will go up against its longtime rival, Canada, in the gold medal game later this week.

February 14, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Germany's Claudia Pechstein is the oldest woman that is competing in the 2022 Olympics. She is turning 50 this month.

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'Never too late': Older athletes are breaking records at the 2022 Beijing Olympics

NPR found at least 140 athletes listed as competing in this Winter Games that are over the age of 35, according to the Olympic Studies Center.

February 12, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Fans pose below the NHL logo outside Falcon Stadium at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., in February 2020.

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The NHL pauses hockey season until after Christmas due to COVID-19 risks

The league will begin its holiday break starting at the end of Tuesday night's games, postponing the five remaining games scheduled for Thursday.

December 21, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Area teachers in Sioux Falls, S.D., scramble to grab $1 bills on the ice rink at a Sioux Falls Stampede hockey game on Saturday, in this screenshot from a video posted by <em>Argus Leader</em> reporter Annie Todd that went viral this weekend.

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Organizers of the South Dakota teacher 'Dash for Cash' are apologizing and paying up

The Sioux Falls Stampede and CU Mortgage Direct acknowledge the event appeared "degrading and insulting" to educators and are giving an additional $500 to each of the applicants and participants.

December 14, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
Joel Quenneville is no longer the head coach of the Florida Panthers, after an investigation found he and other leaders failed to act on sexual assault accusations from a player on the Chicago Blackhawks during Quenneville's tenure there.

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A former Chicago Blackhawks coach resigns from the Florida Panthers' top job

Joel Quenneville has quit as coach of the Florida hockey team following a report about the handling of sexual assault accusations from a player for the Blackhawks during Quenneville's tenure there.

October 29, 2021
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  • Bill Chappell
Kyle Beach #12 of the Chicago Blackhawks skates against the Detroit Red Wings during a preseason game in September 2010 at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.

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Kyle Beach reveals he is the player suing the Chicago Blackhawks over sex assault

Beach said that he was sexually assaulted by a video coach for the hockey team in 2010 and that the team did nothing about it for weeks. Beach came forward publicly for the first time Wednesday.

October 28, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman prepares for the first round of the 2020 National Hockey League Draft at the NHL Network Studio on October 06, 2020 in Secaucus, New Jersey.

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NHL announces that all but 4 players are vaccinated

That means about 99% of NHL players have gotten the vaccine. "All of our officials are vaccinated. All of the personnel that come into contact with the players are vaccinated," the commissioner adds.

October 14, 2021
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  • Sharon Pruitt-Young
The Tampa Bay Lightning celebrate winning the Stanley Cup on Monday in Edmonton, Canada.

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NHL Completes Season In Bubble; Tampa Bay Lightning Win Stanley Cup

The NHL is the first of the four major North American pro sports leagues to crown a champion during the pandemic. Some players spent over two months in a bubble, with no COVID-19 cases reported.

September 29, 2020
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  • Reese Oxner
Personnel enter and exit the NHL bubble in Toronto, one of two host cities, along with Edmonton, where the league has resumed its season.

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NHL Commissioner On How The League Keeps Athletes Safe: 'Be As Flexible As Possible'

The National Hockey League has resumed its season in two "bubbles" in Edmonton and Toronto, Canada. The league says it's administered 7,000 coronavirus tests to players, with zero positive cases.

August 06, 2020
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  • Stacey Vanek Smith and
  • Emma Bowman
Players return from the bottom after a point is scored underwater.

Breathing In ATL's Underwater Hockey Scene

Many sports are all about teamwork. But underwater hockey takes this to new heights. Or depths, rather, since all the action in underwater hockey is at...

December 05, 2017
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  • Emily Cureton

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