Coachella Valley Firebirds rookie goaltender Nikke Kokko, who head coach Derek Laxdal referred to last year as the future of the Seattle Kraken, is seventh in the American Hockey League this ...

Starting AHL season as league’s third youngest team, the Firebirds, behind goalie prospect Nikke Kokko, continue to live up to high bar, notching another series over rival ...

Coachella Valley plays another hard-forechecking game with plenty of shots on goal while Nikke Kokko stars again but loses ...

After two years of being spoiled, Firebirds supporters now understand what life as an AHL fan is really like, and that's OK ...

Goaltender Nikke Kokko was perfect between the pipes, stopping all 23 shots he faced to earn his first AHL playoff shutout. Coachella Valley goalie Nikke Kokko arrives on the ice to round out the ...

A late goal by Vancouver’s Kirill Kudryavtsev stuns Firebirds’ Nikke Kokko giving the Canucks a 2-0 lead with 23 seconds late on the clock. This is Kudryavtsev’s first career playoff goal.

The Kraken called him up Sunday and sent rookie goaltender Nikke Kokko down to the Coachella Valley Firebirds. The move comes just in time for Tuesday's Grubauer Bobblehead giveaway to the first ...

An inability to find the finishing touch did the Coachella Valley Firebirds in again as they outshot Abbotsford but wound up on the wrong end of the scoreboard, falling 3-1 in Game 3 of the ...

Nikke Kokko started in net for CV and had 23 saves. The Firebirds will play the Abbotsford Canucks in the Pacific Division Semifinals. The first game of the best-of-five series will be at Acrisure ...

The rookie forward took a backhand pass from Juha Jaaska from behind the Firebirds net, deked Coachella Valley goaltender Nikke Kokko to the ice and buried a forehand shot into the back of the net ...

Goaltender Nikke Kokko was perfect between the pipes, stopping all 23 shots he faced to earn his first AHL playoff shutout. Mitchell Stephens, who scored his first overtime game-winner for ...