Evan Gauer didn’t think twice when he traded a cheek swab for a cupcake on the Stony Brook campus during a rugby recruiting trip. What started as a shortcut to a sweet treat actually led to the ...
When the New York Islanders signed then 25-year-old left winger Maxim Tsyplakov out of the KHL off a career-high 31-goal season for Moscow Spartak, he was just a name and a major question mark.