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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
New Reported Provision In CBA Agreement To Benefit Jake O'Brien; Comes A Year Late For Berkly Catton
A new provision in the CBA will allow each NHL team to place one 19-year-old CHL player in the AHL per season, starting in 2026-27, according to Frank Seravalli. The new provision will benefit Seattle Kraken's Jake O'Brien, but it comes a year too late for Berkly Catton.
CTV News
28-06-2025
- Sport
- CTV News
Hockey players with ties to Waterloo Region, Hamilton and Brantford snapped up in NHL draft
It was a big night for local hockey players as the NHL draft got underway Friday night. Hamilton-born Matthew Schaefer was picked up by the New York Islanders as the first overall pick. Schaefer had been playing for the Erie Otters. He's now the second Erie player to go first in the draft after Connor McDavid was scooped up by the Edmonton Oilers in 2015. Another local player, Brady Martin went fifth overall. The Elmira local was picked up by the Nashville Predators after spending his last two seasons with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds. Meanwhile, a Brantford Bulldog, Jake O'Brien, went to the Seattle Kraken as the eighth overall pick. O'Brien is originally from Toronto, but has been a standout on the Brantford squad for the past two seasons. Cameron Reid played for the Kitchener Rangers for two seasons as a defenceman before being selected by the Nashville Predators Friday. The Predators traded up picks 23 and 67 and selected Reid. Reid, who is originally from Copenhagen, Ont. just south of Aylmer, scored 14 goals and 54 points with Kitchener of the OHL last season. Round two of NHL draft picks start on Saturday at 12 p.m.
BBC News
17-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'We will definitely be pushing up the table' - O'Brien on Everton ambitions
Everton defender Jake O'Brien says they will be "ambitious" with what they can achieve as a team going into the new 24-year-old joined from Lyon last summer and initially struggled to break into the starting XI under Sean he took his chance in the second half of the season after David Moyes' return and made 24 appearances, also scoring two goals and providing one both centre-back and right-back roles, the Republic of Ireland international became a key figure in defence to help the side move away from relegation a new stadium too, the Blues will want to build on that and be competing in the top half rather than the bottom half of the tablein 2025-26."It is important to always be ambitious and know you can fight for things," O'Brien told BBC Radio Merseyside."Over the past couple of months, we have been going toe to toe with teams at the top end of the table and won some of those games too."We have shown we are more than capable of doing it and just need to do that throughout the season."It is great having the new owners and new manager, so it's exciting times. We now have the whole summer to build and get ready for a new season in a new stadium, so it is exciting times for everyone and we will definitely be pushing up the table, being ambitious and seeing how far we can go."Listen to the full interview on BBC Sounds
The Independent
02-06-2025
- Business
- The Independent
Caoimhin Kelleher can be one of Premier League's best keepers – Jake O'Brien
Jake O'Brien has backed Republic of Ireland team-mate Caoimhin Kelleher to establish himself as one of the best keepers in the Premier League as he closes in on a move from Liverpool to Brentford. The 26-year-old was conspicuous by his absence from training with the Ireland squad on Monday morning having travelled to London with a view to tying up a move to the Gtech Community Stadium which could eventually cost the Bees £18million. Kelleher, who picked up a league winners' medal with the Reds this season, has made no secret of his desire for regular first-team football and with Mark Flekken seemingly heading for Bayer Leverkusen, looks sets to be granted his wish by Thomas Frank. Everton defender O'Brien, who will hope to play alongside his fellow Cork man in Friday's friendly clash with Senegal in Dublin, told a press conference: 'It doesn't take for me to say how good he is. I think everyone knows how good he is and what he's achieved over the last couple of years. 'If it goes through, it's a great move for him, to become a number one in the Premier League. 'It's a great move for him, to go and play every week is very important and he's more than good enough. Brentford have done well this season so it's a club he can progress and do a lot at. 'I think everyone knows how good he is and how high his ceiling is. He can push on and do great things.' Kelleher, who also has two Carabao Cup wins to his name, made 20 appearances in all competitions for Liverpool during the season which has just finished but had to play second fiddle to Brazilian Alisson Becker once again. He has been open in the recent past while on international duty about his need to play every week and, having made the Ireland jersey his own in the midst of Gavin Bazunu's injury problems, seems ready now to set out on a new path. O'Brien said: 'It's a difficult one because he is number two at Liverpool, but he's obviously got a really good keeper ahead of him. 'He's definitely up there with the best keepers in the Premier League and I think next year he'll show that he's up there with the best. 'I think he's proven in the games he has played for Liverpool that he can be up there with some of the best keepers in the league.' Although O'Brien and Kelleher live close to each other on Merseyside, they are separated by the city's football divide and the Blues defender, who joined the Toffees from Lyon last summer, admits he does not see a lot of his compatriot outside of their international commitments. He said: 'I think that's just because in football, you've other things going on. 'He lives in the same area as me. I suppose it would be difficult if we were seen together as Merseyside rivals, some fans wouldn't take it well.'
Irish Times
02-06-2025
- General
- Irish Times
Jake O'Brien: ‘We all feel we are good enough to be at the World Cup'
Séamus Coleman is absent from the Republic of Ireland squad for the upcoming friendlies against Senegal and Luxembourg. Nobody has stated with any certainty if the 36-year-old's playing career is over. Everton manager David Moyes is adamant his captain will be contracted to the club next season. In what capacity, however, remains unclear as Coleman has struggled with injuries for several years. Jake O'Brien is the next man up. The Ireland skipper's unavailability provided an opportunity for O'Brien to establish himself as a Premier League right-back. 'Séamus is a huge part of the club at Everton, everyone knows that, he's highly respected – what he's going to do next July I don't know,' said O'Brien. READ MORE 'He can do what he wants. If he wants to be a coach or a player, either one he wants to be, but I think it's important we keep him at the club, he's at the heart of everything. 'He was only caretaker manager for a week [in January] but it was great. He's like that all the time, always driving standards in training, he was no different as caretaker.' O'Brien rolled the best and worst season of his career into the past 12 months. Everton paid Lyon €19.5 million for the 24-year-old last summer only for Sean Dyche to barely notice. Dyche used the 6ft 6in defender twice off the bench as The Toffees annual flirtation with relegation forced a managerial change in January. Moyes returned to Goodison Park and immediately transformed O'Brien into a right-back, mainly to due to the unavailability of Coleman. In 12 straight Premier League starts at full-back, the Cork man showed his distribution skills, earning a recall to Heimir Hallgrímsson's international squad, where he forced his way into the team against Bulgaria in March, at centre-back alongside Nathan Collins. 'Six months back I was in a different place, I wasn't where I thought I'd be when I came to Everton,' he admitted. 'I worked hard every day in training. It happens in football, sometimes managers favour you and others don't, a lot can happen in six months. Jake O'Brien in training. Photograph: Tom Maher/Inpho 'I think when [Moyes] came in, he just knew the club really well and what worked for the club and I think he just got to know the players really well and what works for the team. He didn't come in and try to change too much all of a sudden. He was very open-minded when you were speaking to him and I'm grateful that he's given me a chance so everyone knows that he knows what he is doing and that has shown in the last six months with how we finished strongly in the season.' Matt Doherty has the Ireland right-back role under wraps for the time being, but it was instructive to see Hallgrímsson go with O'Brien ahead of another established Premier League performer in Dara O'Shea. Now that O'Shea, Celtic's Liam Scales and O'Brien all reported for training on Monday morning, the Ireland manager's pecking order will be revealed on Friday against Senegal at the Aviva Stadium. The centre-half stocks are so plentiful that Hallgrímsson has experimented with Collins as a holding midfielder alongside Josh Cullen. Last year, for 45 minutes at Wembley, it worked. Then Scales was sent off for a second yellow card and England scored five goals. 'It's always been a strong position with the Irish team, we've always had good defenders,' said O'Brien after training in Abbotstown. 'As a player you always have to be confident you can come in and stake your place, we have good players in that position so it's up to the manager at the end of the day.' Despite the unavailability of former Liverpool star Sadio Mané, Senegal are ranked 19th in the world – to Ireland's 60th – for good reason. O'Brien knows all about the individual quality of their Everton duo Idrissa Gueye and Iliman Ndiaye. 'The two lads are obviously really good players who have had really good seasons in the Premier League. If you look at the overall squad, they have very prolific players and I think it's good for us to come up against these teams and prepare for the World Cup.' In that sense, it is a useful fixture. In reality, Hallgrímsson will use the game to settle upon the starting XI that can beat Hungary in the opening World Cup qualifier at the Aviva Stadium on September 6th. Three days later Ireland return to Yerevan to face an Armenia side that beat them 1-0 in 2022. 'We all feel we are good enough to be at the World Cup,' said O'Brien. 'This is a different type of opposition to what we are used to but it's important we play these types of teams and know that we're good enough to go toe to toe with them.'
