A: In this instance, both players should be assessed minor penalties for roughing. This is one area where officials tend to be lax in their standard and needs to be tightened up. Oftentimes, officials will only assess penalties after several warnings or after a player retaliates, in which case they go back and assess one minor penalty to each player, even though they had no intention of assessing the first penalty until the retaliation occurred. This approach discredits the officials and will only create more problems later in the game. Under this Standard of Play, officials should enforce any unnecessary contact after the whistle with a strict penalty standard. When at all possible, the aggressor should be identified and assessed an additional minor penalty in order to hold them accountable for starting the altercation. 

By Ross Forman - Aidan Day has had quite the sporting career at Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein - and he has already committed to run cross country in the fall at Loyola University Maryland. For the Corsairs, Day is the lone senior on the varsity hockey team. He also played varsity soccer as a sophomore and junior, and possibly will in the spring as it was postponed from the fall due to the pandemic, played varsity tennis as a junior; and competed on the varsity cross country and track teams. READ MORE>>

By Ross Forman - After four seasons skating for the New Trier varsity, forward Serena Seiple is getting ready to retire her No. 14 Trevians' jersey and, in a few months, transition to college life. Though she's still undecided on her college plans, she wants to major in biology and continue studying French and theatre. Her favorite hockey memory came as a freshman: winning the Illinois High School Hockey Girls State Championship at the United Center. READ MORE>>

By Jamie MacDonald (Mass Hockey) - Very few people in this country have been closer to the evolution of men's and women's hockey over the past four decades than AJ Mleczko. Growing up in New England, she played hockey at a time when it seemed "being sporty" was a track in and of itself. Her own hockey career took her to Harvard, where she was named the best player in the country in 1999, and to two Olympic Winter Games - the first of which earned her an historic gold medal and another set of lifetime memories.

These days, she's an NHL broadcaster, host of the "Girls on the Bus" podcast and parent - and often coach - of four hockey players who range from 9- to 17-years-old. So it's no wonder the phrase, play like a girl, means something to her. But it means perhaps less than it once did. READ MORE>>

The North American Hockey League (NAHL) has the announced the dates and locations for the 2021 Combines, which are now open for registration. The NAHL Combines are driven by the North American Hockey League and operated by the NAHL's professional staff in order to serve the most valuable asset to hockey... the players.

The goal is to provide the aspiring hockey player to take part in a one-of-a-kind experience that is designed to maximize exposure at grand-scale events that provide a true look and feel of the genuine NAHL Experience. NAHL Combines are carefully designed to provide an Education, Exposure, and Experience for prospects that strive to advance their hockey development at the junior hockey and college level. INFORMATION & REGISTRATION>>