Another domino in the sports world fell Monday morning, when the American Hockey League announced it was canceling the remainder of its 2019-20 season.
The Bakersfield Condors continue to be busy during the offseason, signing three more players to contracts this week.
The Bakersfield Condors signed their third center in two days, locking down James Hamblin with a two-year deal on Thursday.
The American Hockey League season may have been interrupted, but the Bakersfield Condors continue to build its team, signing a pair of centers, Brad Malone and Luke Esposito, to two-year contracts.
Bob Sheldon, who dedicated decades of his life to local sports as both an athlete and doctor, passed away on Tuesday. He was 101 years old.
Colby Cave, a professional hockey player who spent much of the 2019-20 season with the Bakersfield Condors, has died of a brain bleed. He was 25.
It was, as the coaches told him, for his own good but Condors rookie goaltender Stuart Skinner was none too happy about being sent down to the Wichita Thunder and the ECHL back in mid-December.
With the arrival of 2020, a new year of local sporting events is beginning to move into focus.
Each passing year is unique to all of us. For me, 2019 has been memorable for the things that have happened to me, and more importantly, the things that didn’t.
The Bakersfield Condors will return to the ice on Saturday, following nearly a week’s hiatus, looking to snap a two-game losing streak when they host the Stockton Heat at 7 p.m.
Despite returning a bevy of players from last year’s Pacific Division championship team, Condors coach Jay Woodcroft stressed prior to the season that this was a different team.
Long after the fourth-largest crowd in Condors history had filed out of Mechanics Bank Arena on Saturday night, the Condors dressing room was still rocking.
Bakersfield beat the Ontario Reign 3-1, with Josh Currie scoring the first goal of the night.
A two-plus decade tradition will give Bakersfield Condors fans the chance to shower the ice with stuffed animals Saturday night.
With the Edmonton Oilers playing in Los Angeles on Thursday night, it afforded Oilers General Manager Ken Holland the opportunity for a quick trip to Bakersfield on Thursday to take a look at the Condors who were playing Stockton Heat in the team's annual Field Trip Day Game.
Even the high-pitched screaming from more than 7,000 school-aged kids on Thursday could not lift the Condors to victory at Mechanics Bank Arena.
The Bakersfield Condors hosted their 16th Annual Field Trip Day game Thursday against the Stockton Heat and, once again, local students were out in full force. An announced crowd of 7,680 was in attendance to watch the Condors fall to the Stockton Heat, 4-3 in overtime. Either way, it was a …
A day off from school spent at Mechanics Bank Arena awaits hundreds of school-aged children in Bakersfield on Thursday.
Thirty-six nights after opening the American Hockey League season with a victory over San Diego, the music was once again blaring from inside the Condors locker room.
With all the success they had last year, the Bakersfield Condors entered this season hungry to take things to the next level.
All in all it was a pretty good opening weekend of American Hockey League play for Bakersfield Condors.
No doubt about it, the Condors enter the 2019-20 American Hockey League season loaded with talent.
Keith Gretzky sat in the stands and kept his eyes focused on the ice as coach Jay Woodcroft and staff sent Bakersfield Condors players through various drills as training camp got under way Monday morning at Mechanics Bank Arena.
The Bakersfield Condors have signed Beau Starrett to an AHL contract for the upcoming season.
Veteran sports writer Mike Griffith, who retired on June 30 after 42 years at The Bakersfield Californian, was selected as the recipient of this year’s James H. Ellery Award.
The Bakersfield Condors announced Tuesday that the team has re-signed defenseman Jake Kulevich and forward Jakob Stukel to AHL contracts for the upcoming season.
The Bakersfield Condors announced the 2019-20 schedule that will begin with a home game on Oct. 4 against San Diego.
Don’t ask Condors coach Jay Woodcroft to give an evaluation on the Edmonton Oilers Development camp, which ended last week in Edmonton.
His ultimate goal is to become a head coach at the National Hockey League level and Jay Woodcroft believes the best path to reach that destination is to pick up where he left off this past season: as head coach of the Bakersfield Condors.
You may not be able to skate up the ice like defenseman Caleb Jones, or handle the puck like rookie AHL All-Star Cooper Marody, but you can have some of the equipment they used this past season for the Bakersfield Condors.
The ultimate goal — a Calder Cup Championship — remained elusive, but by any other standard the Bakersfield Condors met or exceeded all expectations in the just completed season.
When Josh Currie scored a dramatic goal 13 minutes into double overtime game at Rabobank Arena last Saturday night, hopes ran high that it would help propel the Condors to a Game 7 on Wednesday night on their home ice.
The air conditioners at Rabobank Arena can be turned up, the ice chillers can be turned off.
Throughout the season Condors coach Jay Woodcroft has touted the contributions of every player in the dressing room, from those who play heavy minutes in every game to those who rarely see game action.
When Josh Currie’s line hopped off the bench to take a face-off late in double overtime on Saturday night at Rabobank, there was a plan in play.
There was no comeback for the Condors on Friday night in San Diego.
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Condors coach Jay Woodcroft has said all season long that wins were worth about 10 or 15 minutes of celebration before resetting to the next task on hand.
Defenseman William Lagesson scored 39 seconds into overtime to lift the Bakersfield Condors to a 7-6 win over San Diego on Wednesday night in San Diego.
The Condors have taken a glance in the rearview mirror, but are now squarely focused on their biggest game of the season.
It was too little, too late for the Condors on Saturday night at Rabobank Arena.
The opening game of the American Hockey League Pacific Division Finals on Friday night at Rabobank Arena turned into a marathon.
They’ve got a solid group of veteran leaders, a number of young prospects and strong goaltending.
Back in 1995, six cities were chosen to be part of a hockey movement on the West Coast.
For the second time in two weeks, another top Edmonton Oilers prospect is headed to the Bakersfield Condors.
The Colorado Eagles tried everything they could on Saturday night at Rabobank Arena to get the Condors off their game.
The Bakersfield Condors played the Colorado Eagles in Game 4 of the Calder Cup Playoffs on Saturday night at Rabobank Arena.
The Condors had just defeated the Colorado Eagles 5-2 on Tuesday night when a scrum developed along the boards just south of the Condors bench.
Much will be made about defenseman Evan Bouchard’s American Hockey League debut with the Bakersfield Condors on Tuesday night, and with good reason.
The Bakersfield Condors returned home to face the Colorado Eagles in Game 3 of a first-round series at Rabobank Arena.
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