Right winger Joel Ward, who just announced his retirement ... the University of Prince Edward Island to play Canadian college hockey (now known as U Sports), steadily improving in four years ...

Derek Ryan and Joel Ward. When the school year ends for Canadian university students, it marks a new beginning for the graduating U Sports men’s hockey players – they enter a crossroads of ...

including the likes of Joel Ward, Derek Ryan and Jody Shelley. But generally, the notion is that players are only there to extend their hockey career before either making the move to the ECHL ...