For the first time since the NCAA has been allowed to pay its student athletes, a high-profile Canadian hockey player is lacing up for a big payday. Seventeen-year-old Gavin McKenna is the latest ...

Red Deer Minor Hockey, a Canadian youth organization where former Panthers player Nick Tarnasky is a head coach, tells PEOPLE ...

McKenna (5-foot-11, 162 pounds) is the first player to go from the CHL to the NCAA. He ranks first in points-per game (2.30) ...

The concept of the “one and done” isn’t foreign to collegiate athletics overall. College basketball has been dealing with it ...

The history is something to just be in awe of,” Ashton said. “[In] both school and hockey, the team has a winning reputation.

Forward Gavin McKenna, the projected No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, will play for Penn State next season, he ...

Here's where the landscape stands after McKenna became the most high-profile player to go from the CHL to the NCAA.

Gavin McKenna said he is committing to Penn State, leaving the Canadian Hockey League for the U.S. college ranks in a ...

Gavin McKenna is not only the runaway favorite to be the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, but he is also one of the ...