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Aces' Keith opts to play in Europe

The Aces' Cam Keith is coming off a career season that ended when the Aces lost Game 7 of the Kelly Cup Finals to South Carolina. For me, it's like when I signed with Peoria (of the American Hockey League). It's that unknown challenge,'' Keith said of signing to play for SG Cortina in Serie A, Italy's top professional league.

Cam Keith, the burly Alaska Aces winger nicknamed "The Big Rig,'' will be making his next hockey haul abroad. Keith, 28, on Saturday said he has signed a one-year deal to play for SG Cortina in Serie A, Italy's top professional league.

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Aces' Shasby hangs up his skates

Glib as ever, Alaska Aces veteran defenseman Matt Shasby didn't immediately cite "retirement'' to confirm the end of his career because, well, that sounded a bit grandiose for a minor-league hockey player.

PRO HOCKEY

No grits for Palin

There will be no shrimp and grits for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. She owes South Carolina's Mark Sanford some king salmon from her home state.

Aces' successes are no solace for losing Finals

Only one happy ending per league. That's the drill in sports, and for the Alaska Aces, that decree in hockey's contribution to the life-isn't-fair file left them in despair late Friday night.

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Dream falls short

Alaska Aces hockey fans snatched up tickets to the final game of the season in record time, but any of them who showed up to Sullivan Arena on Friday thinking their team would take care of business with similar speed clearly spent too much time on the wet side of the arena the night before.

Stingrays win the Kelly Cup 4-2

The ever-resilient South Carolina Stingrays dashed the Alaska Aces' dream Friday, seizing a 4-2 win in decisive Game 7 to hoist the coveted hardware that is the ECHL's Kelly Cup.

Dream falls short

Aces force Game 7 with come-from-behind win

Matt Stefanishion scored with less than four minutes remaining Thursday night to keep the Alaska Aces' dreams alive.

Doubters fuel fire in Aces' Imbeault

While Alexandre Imbeault's game isn't predicated on Plexiglas-rattling hits, the second-year pivot from Montreal has ratcheted up his resolve in the playoffs, and that's helped elevate him after a roller-coaster regular season.

Winning ugly: Playoff ritual has Aces looking scruffy

When Alaska Aces wingers Cam Keith and Scott Burt are done with this hockey season, presumably they'll spend the summer working as lumberjacks in their native British Columbia. After all, they've got the look nailed.

Aces coach seeks right 'balance'

Aces coach seeks right 'balance'

Before Game 5 of the ECHL Kelly Cup Finals last Saturday, with the Alaska Aces' season on the line, coach Keith McCambridge made his most startling move of the postseason.

Winning ugly: Playoff ritual has Aces looking scruffy

ECHL's 'best fans' sell out Sullivan Arena for Game 6

If you don't have a ticket for Thursday night's Game 6 of the ECHL Kelly Cup Finals, you're out of puck luck.

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Not done yet: Aces beat Stingrays to force a Game 6

Colin Hemingway scored on his own point-blank rebound at 17 minutes, 22 seconds of overtime Saturday night to give Alaska a 3-2 victory over the South Carolina Stingrays and stave off elimination in the ECHL Kelly Cup Finals.

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Up against it

Another setback like Friday night's series-swaying 5-0 loss to the South Carolina Stingrays and the Alaska Aces will encounter a choice they don't want to face just yet: Gillette or Schick?

Stingrays beat Aces to take 3-1 series lead

The South Carolina Stingrays, buoyed by James Reimer's 27 saves, pushed the Alaska Aces to the brink of elimination today with a 5-0 win that gives them a 3-1 series lead in the best-of-7 ECHL Kelly Cup playoffs.

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Aces struggling on penalty kill

Killing penalties proved a breeze for the Alaska Aces in the regular season, when they set an ECHL league record for efficiency, and through three rounds of Kelly Cup playoffs.

Missed moment: Aces lose one in South Carolina

Everywhere you turn in these ECHL Kelly Cup Finals, some player or coach is talking about how every hockey game could be decided by one mere moment.

Don't expect Aces to play 'pretty'

Rewind more than four months and 50 hockey games, and there lies the Alaska Aces' template for success on the road.

DOYLE WOODY

Dramatic start for the Aces in Kelly Cup Finals

Crunch time arrived for the Alaska Aces inside the last 90 seconds, the outcome of a pivotal hockey game capped with a minute and a half of high drama. Each tick off the clock above center ice played out like a tug of war -- chaos pulling against calm, distress battling desire, eagerness contesting anxiety.

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Aces beat Stingrays 3-1, even Kelly Cup Finals at one apiece

Based on the evidence through two hockey games, these ECHL Kelly Cup Finals are going to furnish a succession of thrillers decided by the thinnest of margins and filled with anxious moments until the final horn.

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Stingrays strike first in Kelly Cup Finals

The South Carolina Stingrays needed 13 seconds Friday night to forge both the game-tying and go-ahead goals, both courtesy of Maxime Lacroix, and beat the Alaska Aces 4-2 in Game 1 of the ECHL's Kelly Cup Finals.

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When politics, pucks intersect

This is how we know the seemingly endless buildup to the ECHL's Kelly Cup Finals has thankfully just about run its course: The politicians have weighed in.

Aces Championship

Alaska Aces goalie Jean-Philippe Lamoureux skates off the ice after the Stingrays defeated the Alaska Aces to win the 2009 Kelly Cup hockey championship game on Friday June 5, 2009 at the Sullivan Arena.

Images from the final game of the Kelly Cup Championships

PHOTOS: 2009 KELLEY CUP FINALS

Aces vs. South Carolina Stingrays

A ref waves off a last second goal attempt by South Carolina on account of a high stick call at the end of game 6 of the Kelly Cup Finals. The Aces won the game, 3-2.

The final series for the Kelly Cup started in Anchorage, Alaska May 22, 2009.

PHOTOS: 2009 PLAYOFFS

Aces vs. Wranglers

Alaska's Luke Erickson flies across the front of the net in front of Las Vegas goalie Glenn Fisher in the first game of the National Conference finals on May 9, 2009.

Game action from the semi-final round of the Kelly Cup playoffs.

PHOTOS: 2009 PLAYOFFS

Aces vs. Salmon Kings

Salmon Kings player Darryl Lloyd goes after the puck being chased by Alaska Aces player Ryan Turek in second period action at Save On Food Memorial Arena in playoff action in  Victoria, B.C. May  2, 2009.

See the action from the second round of playoffs: Alaska Aces versus the Victoria Salmon Kings.

Woody on Hockey

Evan R. Steinhauser/Anchorage Daily NewsStudio portrait of Doyle Woody.061101

Join the conversation about the Aces and Alaska hockey with Doyle Woody, who has covered the game for 26 years.

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