Category: Profiles

When hockey season ends, players typically spend their time catching up with family and friends while hitting the weight room, video room or rink to ensure their skills stay sharp and continue to improve. Even in the minor leagues, unlike the old days, professional players make enough money that they do not need to concentrate…

During his earliest years, New Hampshire native Andrew Silsby was just a normal kid. At the age of five, everything changed. Silsby was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and had surgery within two days to treat it. After seven years of difficult therapy and relearning nearly every aspect of life, he was matched with the University…

Halli Krzyzaniak only needed to stand for her first Canadian national team portrait in 2014 to tell an as-yet-unfamiliar world what she was — and still is — all about. Her choice to keep on her eyewear for the shoot set her apart from her teammates, fashion-wise. Three years later, it retroactively symbolizes her status…

Frequent travel and relocation are a way of life for Fredrik Olofsson. In some cases, he moved from place to place with his family. In other instances, he moved by himself to play hockey. Either way, these experiences have allowed him to enjoy trying new things and experiencing different parts of the world, which he now actively seeks in…

Alex Carle has grown up by looking up to his two older brothers, Matthew and David, and traveling a similar path to theirs. As time goes by, their influence has proved invaluable to the Merrimack defenseman coming off his sophomore year. The three brothers were born in five-year intervals, which has allowed knowledge and experience to be shared first…

Joe Gambardella made waves on the ice this past year with UMass-Lowell, earning the Walter Brown Award as the top U.S.-born college player in New England. His team-leading 52-point campaign, which was a 15-point improvement on his junior year and 42 points better than his rookie total, allowed the undrafted senior to sign a professional contract…

Meghan Brennan, like so many peers at this stage in her life, is taking a hard landing as she moves away from her college athletics career. But her worldly horizons, marked by the places she has seen and the tongues she has learned, have prepared her to bounce back up and reemerge in another field upon…

Just a little more. Alexis Crossley comes from a household and neighborhood where craving, pursuing and doling out more enrichment is the norm. Especially if that enrichment comes via competitive exercise. The way she recounts her upbringing in Cole Harbour, N.S., on the outskirts of Halifax — and the way she represents the place as…

Indiana is far from a hockey hotbed. Just five players who played NCAA men’s hockey this past year call the Hoosier State home. To reach a high level of hockey, players and families from the state often have to make sacrifices so that the player has the best opportunity to develop. Karch Bachman, who recently completed…

In 2009, Sam’s Carnival, based out of Oklahoma City, obtained new ownership. Gary and Jodi Montgomery became partners with Sam Whitaker and from then on out would be running the show. Their son, Jake Montgomery, now a sophomore on the Arizona State hockey team, was in ninth grade at the time, and would help around the carnival wherever…