Zach Wright

AGM of the Logan Lake Miners @LLCollegehockey of the @bcihl

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

CALE MAKAR IS BACK IN THE AVS LINEUP TONIGHT 🥬

[Conor McGahey @ConorMcGahey]

#GoAvsGo

[Zach Wright @Wrighter16]

@ryanwhitney6 We can send people to slingshot the moon, but we don’t have puck / goal line technology for these situations….

[Chris Johnston @reporterchris]

First-round NHL playoff matchups with conference ranking in parenthesis:

CAR (1) v. OTT (6)
BUF (2) v. BOS (5)
TB (3) v. MTL (4)
PIT (7) v. PHI (8)

[NCAA Ice Hockey @NCAAIceHockey]

The 2026 Most Outstanding Player is none other than @DU_Hockey freshman goaltender, Johnny Hicks 🏒🥅

#MFrozenFour

[Colorado Avalanche @Avalanche]

We have signed Michigan forward TJ Hughes to a one-year, entry-level contract beginning in the 2026-27 season.

He will join the Colorado Eagles on an AHL Professional Tryout agreement (PTO) for the remainder of the 2025-26 season.

[Zach Wright @Wrighter16]

Hicksyyyyyyy

[Michael Reeve @McIntyreReeve]

A 49 save Double OT win for #Kamloops' Johnny Hicks (@DU_Hockey) and he's off to the National Championship. BTW 49 saves is light work for the former @KICentennials netminder who once stopped 59. Kids a stud, who isn't scared of the rubber.

[Game Notes @GameNotesBud]

DENVER’S NATTY BOUND‼️

[ESPN @espn]

JOHNNY "ON THE SPOT" HICKS KEEPS DENVER ALIVE IN OT 😱

[Nazem Kadri @43_Kadri]

Rule number one : You always keep the dawgs … #96

[B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce]

NAZEM KADRI IS HEADING BACK TO THE AVALANCHE PER @FriedgeHNIC

A LAST SECOND STUNNER!!!!! 🤯🤯🤯

[Cabbie Richards @Cabbie]

This one hits different now… 🇨🇦 #DoItForSid

[Martien 🇳🇱 @MartienBall]

Going to sleep knowing I haven’t seen a single sad Sir Alex Ferguson picture after full time for a whole month.

[Gavin Brindley Glazer @BrindleyGlazer]

Going from being told he'll never play hockey again, to being named captain for his country's Olympic team is genuinely insane. Hall of Fame shit. #MilanoCortinaOlympic2026

[Premier League @premierleague]

WHAT. A. FINISH. 😱

@ManUtd seal all three points to make it three wins in a row for Michael Carrick!

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

A MASSIVE RESULT IN THE CAPITAL 💪

[Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL]

FULL-TIME: Manchester United SILENCE the Emirates! 🔴

[Zach Wright @Wrighter16]

The most truthful and accurate description of hockey in Canada.

[Topher Scott @HockeyThinkTank]

Thoughts on Team Canada at World Juniors:

There's been a lot of discourse today about Canada's performance after bowing out to Czechia again. I've read a lot about roster construction, team toughness, how players were used during the tournament, and other things related to the team's inability to get the job done.

These things may have been an issue, but reality is the problem runs way deeper.

Here is the biggest thing that people aren't talking about:

Canada has WAY fewer youth boys playing hockey than it did a decade ago.

Looking at Hockey Canada registration and membership data, it's mind-boggling to see the numbers.

And the numbers in the biggest provinces (Ontario and Quebec) are especially egregious.

So why is this happening? Hockey is Canada's sport. It shouldn't be like this.

It's what we hear every day from families all over North America:

Costs are too high. It's professionalized at too young of an age. The stress of the youth hockey experience is too much for kids and families.

Community programs have been replaced by for-profit entities leading to higher costs and more pressure. Development has been replaced by super teams and rogue/outlaw leagues outside of Hockey Canada even before kids are 8 years old. At the older ages, hockey academies have become what families believe is the only way their kids will make it - shelling out INSANE amounts of money to send their kids to do so.

Ontario just got rid of residency rules which will only lead to less accountability and more club-hopping than there already was in the nation's craziest and biggest youth hockey market.

The reason why Canada was the hockey superpower for so long is because it was part of the fabric of the country. There was such a pride and passion for the game and what the game meant to the flag. There was such a sense of playing the game for something bigger than yourself.

Now rather than playing for the love of the game, hockey in Canada is like a job for many of these kids in the environment they're being put in. It's less about pride and passion and more about the path to making it. When in all honesty, it's the pride and passion for the game that is the biggest consistency in the kids that do end up making it.

If Canada wants to restore its hockey dominance, it better take a long look in the mirror at the grassroots and what is going on in youth hockey. If you have tens of thousands of fewer boys playing the game, you should probably look at that first. The bigger your pool of athletes, the more elite athletes you can develop.

"As many as possible, for as long as possible, in the best environment possible". That has to be the guiding principle.

There's a lot of great people in Canada doing incredible things for the game, but the system itself is fundamentally broken. If Hockey Canada is serious about getting back to the top, it has to start at the bottom.

[NHL @NHL]

The first player in NHL history with 50 career overtime points.

Sidney Crosby. 🐧

[🇨🇦 Alex Couz @AbsCoverage]

#2027NHLDraft 🇨🇦 D Landon DuPont in his WHL career so far (15-16 yo) :

96GP 26G 64A 90PTS 50PIM +56