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.
ALASKA ACES
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
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.
ALASKA ACES
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.
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.
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.
ALASKA ACES
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.
ALASKA ACES
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.
ALASKA ACES
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.
ALASKA ACES
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.
ALASKA ACES
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.
ALASKA ACES
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.
PHOTOS: 2009 KELLEY CUP FINALS
Aces vs. South Carolina Stingrays
The final series for the Kelly Cup started in Anchorage, Alaska May 22, 2009.
PHOTOS: 2009 PLAYOFFS
Game action from the semi-final round of the Kelly Cup playoffs.
PHOTOS: 2009 PLAYOFFS
See the action from the second round of playoffs: Alaska Aces versus the Victoria Salmon Kings.
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