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Mustangs’ 19U AA team exuding character, potential in first season
February 29th, 2016The New Mexico Mustangs’ 19U AA team doesn’t have the best won-loss record, but for a first-year team with an average age of 15, coach-manager Jesus Flores has his team going in a positive direction. Obviously, the Mustangs have played older, more experienced competition this season, but Flores feels that can only make his girls…
Industry Profile: Brent Gough
February 27th, 2016BRENT GOUGH Hometown: St. Albert, Alberta, Canada Resides: Scottsdale Age: 32 Position/Organization: Owner, West Coast Elite Hockey Arizona Rubber: What is West Coast Elite Hockey? Brent Gough: West Coast Elite Hockey is a company I started last year to help high-level youth hockey players reach their goals of playing junior hockey and college hockey. Players,…
INDUSTRY PROFILE: Olivia Campos
February 23rd, 2016OLIVIA CAMPOS Hometown: Mesa Resides: Phoenix Age: 30 Position/Organization: Director of Community Relations for the Arizona Coyotes Arizona Rubber: As the director of community relations, what exactly do you do for the Coyotes? Olivia Campos: My job is to coordinate the team’s day-to-day involvement with the community, the fans, schools, non-profit organizations and more. I…
TAKING LIBERTIES WITH … Tyson Nash
February 23rd, 2016TYSON NASH Arizona Coyotes broadcaster, former NHL player, including 2003-06 with Phoenix Coyotes Arizona Rubber: After your playing days, explain your decision to remain in Arizona? What was the attraction? Tyson Nash: Obviously, I played here and began to put roots down. My kids started to get involved in sports. The weather, the friendships we…
IHAAZ tournament series creates family-like atmosphere
February 23rd, 2016Back in the mid-1990s, the sport of inline hockey enjoyed a significant rise in popularity as four rinks sprung up in Arizona and the idea of hosting tournaments came about as well. But those tournaments tended to be less than successful because many were corporate-run and often the rinks struggled to make it financially viable…
Bobcats organization starting to see the fruits of its labor
February 23rd, 2016Eight years ago, Ron Filion started the Arizona Bobcats youth hockey program in Phoenix with a dream of developing top hockey talent, but with plenty more questions than answers. The former West Coast Hockey League and East Coast Hockey League player and coach, now the Bobcats director of hockey, had big aspirations and a patient…
Trio with Jr. Coyotes ties part of U.S. Youth Olympics champions
February 21st, 2016The U.S. Youth Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team earned a gold medal at the 2016 Youth Olympic Games with a 5-2 victory over Canada Feb. 21 in Lillehammer, Norway. The U.S. finished the tournament with a 5-0-0-1 (W-OTW-OTL-L) record and the championship win marks the first-ever medal for the U.S. at the event. “It was…
Michalek enjoying third stint in desert with Coyotes
February 19th, 2016Lights, action, glamour. This is part of the eye-opening experience felt by most professional athletes. Big contracts, big entourage, big splash in the media and a bulls-eye for national attention. From humble beginnings to the glare of notoriety, this is the kind of life-style which awaits whose who signed the attractive contracts. Not quite. Just…
Ice Den conditioning program a benefit to Jr. Coyotes
February 19th, 2016Clearly, hockey players are physical specimens. To play the game at an elite level, players need to be in tip-top shape. For the Jr. Coyotes organization’s AA and AAA Elite teams, utilizing the new conditioning program at the Ice Den locations in Chandler and Scottsdale will see the program continue to compete at the highest…
Jr. Coyotes sweep Bobcats to win trio of Tier I states
February 19th, 2016The Phoenix Jr. Coyotes are Arizona Amateur Hockey Association Tier I state champions three times over. In late January, the Jr. Coyotes’ Elite AAA 14U, 16U and 18U teams all captured state titles with best-of-three series wins over Arizona Bobcats teams. For Mike Vukonich’s 18U team, it took until the deciding Game 3, a 6-1…