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SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — As the Florida Panthers made a furious attempt to tie Game 4 — and the series — Saturday night, Adin Hill made the biggest save of his career as he denied Florida’s Matthew Tkachuk and Sam Bennett in the game’s closing seconds to give his team a win and commanding 3-1

With no time left on the clock in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup final, helmets, gloves, sticks and plastic rats littered the ice, the result of a fracas started in the final seconds of an emotional showdown. For all the punches, pushes and shoves that accumulated in the melee, none of them changed the

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Adam Fantilli spoke with 11 teams. Leo Carlsson chatted with the same number. Connor Bedard, meanwhile, didn’t get specific when asked how many clubs — “a pretty good amount” — quizzed the presumptive No. 1 overall pick at the NHL scouting combine. Three players expected to go in the top-5 picks at

Geraldine Heaney is returning as coach of the Toronto Six after a successful yet somewhat bumpy first season behind the bench. “I wasn’t too sure what I was getting into, coaching pro hockey is different from coaching minor hockey,” said Heaney, who led the Six to the Premier Hockey Federation title in March. “But I

The Florida Panthers hit the ice Saturday for Game 4 against the Vegas Golden Knights, but no matter the outcome, one Panthers player has already had a life-changing week.  Brandon Montour, the 29-year-old, Ontario-born defenceman, became a new father only days ago, after his wife Ryian gave birth to their first child, a son named Kai on June 4.  Ryian went into labour

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Connor Bedard has passed a lot of signposts this season. With less than a month to go until the presumptive No. 1 pick climbs on stage and checks another box after hearing his name called first at the NHL draft, the 17-year-old phenom is doing his best to stay patient. It can’t

Brad Treliving has made his first move as general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, adding former Arizona Coyotes captain Shane Doan to his front office. The Maple Leafs announced that Doan will join the Original Six club as a special adviser to the general manager. “The Maple Leafs have a such deep history and

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Before the puck dropped Thursday night for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final, Florida Panthers coach Paul Maurice tipped his hand, at least a little bit. For the first time since the second round of the playoffs, Matthew Tkachuk’s line alongside Sam Bennett and Nick Cousins did not start. Vegas

Overtime. Season basically on the line. The Florida Panthers keep finding ways to flourish in those moments. And for the first time, they’ve won a game in the Stanley Cup final. Carter Verhaeghe snapped a wrister from the slot high into the back of the net 4:27 into overtime and the Panthers rallied to beat

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Panthers star Matthew Tkachuk returned to Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final on Thursday night after missing time following a big hit from Vegas Golden Knights forward Keegan Kolesar. Kolesar delivered an open-ice hit on Tkachuk six minutes in. Tkachuk stumbled as he was trying to get up and

Kirk Muller remembers the speech like it was yesterday. Down 2-0 to the Quebec Nordiques in the first round of the 1993 playoffs — and coming off a clunky regular-season finish — Montreal Canadiens general manager Serge Savard addressed the group during a meal. “Our plane broke down and we stayed an extra night,” Muller,

The workhorse from Whitehorse is back in his hometown and his homecoming is inspiring other Yukon athletes to train even harder.  Hockey pro Dylan Cozens, originally from Whitehorse, was picked as 7th overall in the National Hockey League’s (NHL) 2019 draft and has now finished his third season with the Buffalo Sabres. Cozens is back

TORONTO – The Toronto Six have extended the contract of head coach Geraldine Heaney through the 2023-24 Premier Hockey Federation season. Heaney took over the role before the 2022-23 season and led the Six to the club’s first Isobel Cup title. Toronto posted 17-5-2 a regular-season record and a 3-1-0 post-season record under Heaney’s watch.

A few more details on the City of Calgary’s $1.2 billion deal for a new downtown arena as well as infrastructure in its culture and entertainment district emerged Monday. A city council committee heard that the city will not impose a tax on tickets sold for events in the new arena and that the owners of

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Flyers have traded Ivan Provorov, sending away the defenseman who boycotted the team’s Pride night as part of a three-team trade that included the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Los Angeles Kings. The seventh overall pick of the 2015 draft, the 26-year-old Provorov lands in Columbus and is set to

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Sergei Bobrovsky entered the Stanley Cup Final as the hottest goaltender in hockey. He backstopped the Florida Panthers to the final by winning 11 of his last 12 games and stopping 438 of 465 shots in that span, for a 1.95 goals-against average and .942 save percentage. In two losses to

The Philadelphia Flyers have traded Ivan Provorov, sending away the defenceman who boycotted the team’s Pride night as part of a three-team trade that included the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Los Angeles Kings. The seventh overall pick of the 2015 draft, the 26-year-old Provorov lands in Columbus and is set to enter the fifth

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Matthew Tkachuk lined up Jack Eichel and leveled him with a thunderous open-ice hit that sent him to the ice. Eichel quickly skated off and retreated to the locker room, for more than a few moments putting a scare into the Vegas Golden Knights late in the second period of Game