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16-07-2025
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Kansas City Chiefs 90-man roster by jersey number: No. 43, LB Jack Cochrane
The Kansas City Chiefs signed linebacker Jack Cochrane as a free agent after the 2022 NFL draft. While Cochrane has mostly been relegated to a role on Kansas City's special teams unit, he logged his first defensive start with the Chiefs in 2023. A former University of South Dakota Coyotes (FCS) star, Cochrane is a native of Mount Vernon, Iowa, and a two-time Super Bowl champion. Though he only logged nine defensive snaps played in 2024, Cochrane's special-teams prowess will make it hard for Kansas City's coaching staff to leave him off the Chiefs' 53-man roster after training camp. What jersey number does Jack Cochrane wear? Jack Cochrane currently wears the No. 43 jersey for the Kansas City Chiefs. How much money will Jack Cochrane make in 2025? According to Cochrane will receive a base salary of $1,575,000 in addition to a prorated signing bonus of $400,000 and a per-game roster bonus of $100,000 in 2025. His total cap number will be $2,088,235 next season. Top Jack Cochrane highlight This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: Chiefs 90-man roster by jersey number: No. 43, LB Jack Cochrane
National Post
07-07-2025
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- National Post
With trade to Maple Leafs, Matias Maccelli confident he can rebound from down season
Matias Maccelli's mind started to race. Article content As he lined up to make a putt during a round of golf with pals on June 30, one of the group was scrolling on his phone. Article content Article content Suddenly, the friend started to yell with excitement. Article content Maccelli had been traded to the Maple Leafs. Article content 'I didn't make that putt, but still played a decent round,' Maccelli said with a smile on Monday during a Zoom call, his first availability with Leafs beat writers in Toronto since he became a Leaf. Article content Article content 'It was a pretty exciting round the rest (of the day). I was super-pumped and excited to be part of the Leafs.' Article content Article content Speaking from his off-season home in Turku, Finland, the 24-year-old forward said he has been hard at work for several weeks, eager to recover from what was a difficult 2024-25 season with Utah. Article content After piling up 106 points in the previous two seasons combined with the Arizona Coyotes, the move to Salt Lake City with the rest of the organization didn't add up to a smooth transition for Maccelli. He had 18 points in 55 games and was scratched for all but three of Utah's final 26 games. Article content The 5-foot-11, 185-pound Maccelli was adamant he can prove last season was an outlier. Article content 'It comes down to ice time and opportunity with the points,' Maccelli said. 'It wasn't the best year for me, but I know I'm a better player (like) I was back in Arizona. Article content 'I know I have it still in me. Now I just have to show people that again.' Article content The Leafs are optimistic that Maccelli — who will wear No. 63 — will rebound. General manager Brad Treliving said last week that the club had him on its radar for a while. Article content Article content Leafs advisor Shane Doan worked with Maccelli in Arizona and, when the opportunity came to acquire the latter, Treliving moved on it, sending a conditional draft pick to the Mammoth. Article content Article content For now, it's a third-round pick in 2027 that belongs to Utah; it becomes a second-round pick in 2029 if the Leafs make the playoffs in 2025-26 and Maccelli records at least 51 points during the regular season. Article content Along the way to earning a spot on the NHL's all-rookie team in 2022-23, Maccelli demonstrated his playmaking skills and the following year he built on that, recording 40 assists and 57 points. Article content 'I talked to my agent (Ian Pulver), so I knew there was a couple of teams who were showing interest and Toronto was one of the teams who showed the most,' Maccelli said. 'Right from the start, I told my agent that I would love to play for the Leafs.' Article content Toronto isn't going to completely fill the offensive hole created with the trade of Mitch Marner to the Vegas Golden Knights. With a bit of further financial creativity, Treliving, with close to $5 million under the salary cap now, would like to add a top-six forward during the off-season. There's different names linked the Leafs regularly, whether it's Nazem Kadri, Bryan Rust, Jared McCann or fill-in-the-blank.
New York Times
07-07-2025
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- New York Times
Matias Maccelli eyes top-six role in a fresh start with the Maple Leafs
Matias Maccelli would rather not look back on last season, when the up-and-coming playmaking winger saw his production stall with the Utah Hockey Club. 'It wasn't obviously the best year for myself,' Maccelli said from Finland. Maccelli is blessed with hands and vision that can see him turn opposition defenders on their heels. In 2022-23, Maccelli finished with 49 points in 64 games. That was good for second in rookie scoring and fourth in Calder Trophy voting. The future looked bright: Maccelli turned his rookie season into a three-year contract extension with an AAV of $3.425 million. Advertisement Yet when the calendar turned to 2025, he wound up playing just six of Utah's final 31 games last season. The Toronto Maple Leafs sent a conditional 2027 third-round draft pick for Maccelli, 24, ahead of free agency opening in June. It was a low-cost bet for Leafs GM Brad Treliving with Maccelli entering the final year of his contract. It's a bet everyone involved is hoping will pay off. 'I still know I'm a better player than I was. I know I still have it in me. Now I've just got to show people again,' Maccelli said in his first media availability as a Leaf on Monday morning. On a young Arizona Coyotes team with their better players — particularly Clayton Keller and Logan Cooley — still coming into their own, it felt likely Maccelli would enjoy a top-six role throughout his contract. Things didn't go as hoped last season. He fell out of favour with Utah head coach Andre Tourigny. 'It comes down to ice time and opportunity,' Maccelli said of why his production dropped. Maccelli can point the finger at a lack of opportunity, but he also acknowledged he fell short when he was on the ice. He wasn't delivering his high-end skill consistently enough. 'His A-game has not been as productive as it has been in the past,' Tourigny said of Maccelli in March, adding that the forward had been handling his time in the press box like a professional. But with the way the Leafs roster is currently constructed, his new coach Craig Berube can't afford to laud Maccelli's attitude alone. The Leafs have lost a 100-point, playmaking-first player from their lineup in Mitch Marner. They've seen a drop-off in that kind of playmaking production from Max Domi, as well. '(Maccelli) is a dynamic playmaker,' Treliving said. 'When you look at some of the areas we need to address, playmaking ability was one of them.' Advertisement Yes, the Leafs are making a bet on Maccelli. But they need that bet to pay off in a real way. There are two gaping holes in the Leafs' top six, one on each wing, assuming John Tavares slots in as the second-line centre. Treliving hasn't been shy about his desire to add an additional top-six winger to his roster. And so it feels likely that given Berube's predilection for checking-heavy lines lower down the lineup, Maccelli will get runway in the other open top-six role to start the season. 'We think there is a bet here on a player we think can rebound from the season he had this year,' Treliving said. 'With some of the players we have, ultimately it will come down to the fits and matches and where they all go. You play around with it on the board, but we just felt that at the price it cost us, this was a chance for a young player who has some dynamic skill and ability. It was certainly worth the bet.' Maccelli's name has constantly popped up in trade rumours going back to last season's trade deadline. Heading to Toronto could be the fresh start he needs. 'Definitely right from the start, I told my agent that I would love to play for the Leafs,' Maccelli said. Now it's time to show it. Through his time as a Coyote, Maccelli found his best chemistry with Nick Bjugstad and Lawson Crouse. Both scored 20-plus goals in 2023-24 thanks in some part to Maccelli feeding them with his creative vision. Berube could slot Maccelli alongside Tavares and William Nylander for an offence-first, oft-sheltered second line. The idea of a gifted, pass-first Maccelli meshing with Nylander and Tavares doesn't seem far-fetched at first glance. Nylander and Tavares both have shoot-first tendencies and finished first and second in Leafs goal scoring last season. Adding a playmaker to the mix to start the season with lower defensive expectations feels like a plug-and-play option for Berube. Advertisement There's no guarantee Maccelli will work in a top-six role in Toronto. But it sort of has to. Bobby McMann's game lagged late last season and in the playoffs. Domi and Nick Robertson don't appear to be viable candidates for a top-six role as things stand. And Maccelli's playing style, combined with his 5-foot-11 frame, doesn't make him all that compatible with a regular bottom-six role under Berube. Maccelli said he's hunkering down this summer to improve his game, 'more than maybe in previous years.' He's trying to add size to his frame and explosiveness to his stride; Maccelli appears to have an understanding already of the increased physicality expected of him, even higher up in Berube's lineup. But how long will his adjustment take? Maccelli is coming from a team that never made the playoffs during his tenure, and a franchise that doesn't have the eyeballs and expectations he will find in Toronto. He is coming to just his second NHL franchise with legitimate expectations of him and his game — and, as Maccelli himself noted, he's going to a city that's new for him 'without really knowing anyone.' If the Leafs want the trade to pay off, management and coaching staff have to at least be patient with his adjustment period. Doing so could exponentially increase the odds that the fit both sides are hoping for is a success. 'I really don't even have much expectation. I don't really know,' Maccelli said. 'It will for sure be different than it was in Utah and definitely different than it was in Arizona.'
Yahoo
06-07-2025
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NHL Forward Makes Unexpected Career Announcement at Age 28
NHL Forward Makes Unexpected Career Announcement at Age 28 originally appeared on Athlon Sports. In a move that caught the hockey world by surprise, now-former Arizona Coyotes, Detroit Red Wings and Columbus Blue Jackets winger Christian Fischer announced his retirement from the NHL on Saturday at age 28. Advertisement Fischer, a veteran of 523 NHL games, told The Athletic's Max Bultman that he's stepping away from hockey. That said, the decision was surprising to the extent of leaving Fischer's agent shocked when he first heard about it, as he was already planning for the start of free agency with his client set to hit the open market. "Fischer noticed that he had a couple of missed calls from his agent, Craig Oster of Newport Sports Management, who was no doubt wanting to plan for (free agency) decisions," Bultman wrote. In Fischer's words, he's moving on not because of injuries or underperformance, but simply to start another chapter in life. Advertisement 'I'm very thankful for all the people I've come across, and I'd tell you right now: I didn't get here on my own,' Fischer said. 'It makes me look back and just appreciate the whole journey, and it makes me very thankful for it all.' Fischer told Bultman that he made the decision to hang his skates before free agency opened. 'Over the last couple years, I think I just look at my life and what makes me happy,' Fischer said. 'Being around family and kind of my life in Scottsdale. Honestly, it's just more so a decision of moving on into another chapter of my life.' Former Detroit Red Wings right wing Christian Fischer receives congratulations from teammates after scoring a Osentoski-Imagn Images A second-round pick by Arizona in 2015, Fischer debuted with the Coyotes (now the Utah Mammoth) at 19 and spent seven seasons with them, peaking with 15 goals and a career-high 33 points in the 2017-18 season. Advertisement Fischer later played two years in Detroit, including 79 games in 2023-24, before a reduced role led to a trade-deadline waiver claim by Columbus this past spring. He played one game for the Blue Jackets before calling it quits on the verge of free agency this summer, ending his career with 62 goals and 75 assists over 523 regular-season games. Related: Wild's Vladimir Tarasenko Makes Admission on Red Wings Exit Related: New Details About Rasmus Andersson's Blocked List, Trade Suitors Emerge This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 6, 2025, where it first appeared.
Yahoo
04-07-2025
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Red Wings forward announces shock NHL retirement at age 28
A hard-working forward who played a long time for the Arizona Coyotes before joining the Detroit Red Wings, along with a one-game Columbus Blue Jackets cameo, has called it quits on his NHL career. And he's done it quite early, at age 28. Advertisement Christian Fischer revealed to The Athletic's Max Bultman that he has chosen to retire rather than seek a new contract in unrestricted free agency. "Over the last couple years, I think I just look at my life and what makes me happy, and being around family and kind of my life in Scottsdale," Fischer told The Athletic. "... In the end, I'm very thankful for the career I had, but just personally I think I know it's time for a new chapter in my life." Fischer played 46 games as a fourth-line forward in 2024-25, with 45 of those games for Detroit. MORE: Hurricanes goalie leaving to play in Russia for KHL powerhouse Advertisement He had just seven points, but as recently as two seasons ago, he had 27 points. Fischer closes his NHL career having played in 523 games, scoring 62 goals and dishing out 75 assists. He also had 978 hits in his career. Fischer entered the NHL as a second-round pick by the Coyotes in 2015, and he lasted a decade in pro hockey. "If you told me that when I was 10 years old, 'You're going to play 500 games in the NHL,' I would be the happiest kid you've ever seen," Fischer told The Athletic. MORE NHL NEWS:
