NHL teams use their picks as currency for trades all the time, sometimes even years before that pick turns into a player.

Unlike in other professional sports leagues, most hockey players are drafted by an NHL team before they play in the NCAA. The league’s draft eligibility rules stipulate that players must be ...

But the five-year veteran looks forward to putting Utah Hockey Club on the NHL map. Marino ... that they want to be a competitive hockey team,” Marino said. “They have such a dangerous ...