The Vancouver Canucks gained a reputation for giving games away earlier in the season, but now they are starting to steal them back. Bo Horvat had two goals and two assists and J.T. Miller had a pair of goals as the Canucks headed into the Christmas holiday break on a high note, erasing a 2-0
Two straight losses notwithstanding, the Winnipeg Jets have more reasons to be jolly than to say “bah, humbug,” as they begin a much-needed three-day Christmas break. Jets Exceeding Expectations This Season The Jets possess a 21-12-1 record through 34 games, exceeding the expectations even the most positive fan or pundit had in October of a
Here is a look at Wednesday’s action around the AHL: CALGARY 5, ONTARIO 2Brett Sutter scored a shorthanded goal and assisted on another one during the same penalty to lead the Wranglers to victory in his 1,000th regular-season AHL game. After Calgary had fallen behind 2-0, Sutter’s goal — the 17th shorthanded marker of his
Dec 21, 2022 Associated Press DALLAS — Dallas Stars forward Denis Gurianov is taking an indefinite leave of absence for unspecified family reasons. The team said Wednesday when announcing the leave that it would not provide further details on 25-year-old Gurianov’s absence. Gurianov is in his sixth season with the Stars. He is one of
The 2023 World Junior Championship is set to take place on Dec. 26 and Winnipeg Jets fans have plenty of reasons to tune in this year. Rutger McGroarty and Chaz Lucius will play within Team USA’s top six, and Brad Lambert will fill the role of a top-six center for Team Finland. This article will
When Brennan Othmann looks around Team Canada’s dressing room, he can’t help but smile. The Pickering, Ont. native and New York Rangers prospect is among nine players returning to help Canada defend gold at the world junior men’s hockey championship, starting Monday in Halifax and Moncton. “We have a lot of returning guys, we have
Rasmus Andersson scored 2:24 into overtime and the Calgary Flames beat the Ducks 3-2 in Anaheim on Friday night. Andersson beat Lukas Dostal with a wrist shot from the right circle to extend Calgary’s points streak to four games, with three wins in that stretch. “Overtime is a possession game, we all know that,” Andersson
With points in five of their last six games, going 4-1-1 in the process, the St. Louis Blues find themselves at 16-16-1 and fifth place in the Central Division with 33 points. In their 5-2 loss to the Seattle Kraken on Dec. 20, the team was without Jordan Kyrou. He missed the game with an
📝 With files from Patrick Williams Here is a look at Friday’s action around the AHL: SAN DIEGO 6, TUCSON 2The Gulls (7-22-0-0) ended their 12-game losing streak, pulling away in the third period to defeat Tucson. Pavol Regenda broke a 2-2 tie midway through the second period and then added another goal and an
Dec 22, 2022 The Boston Bruins revealed findings and subsequent procedural changes on Thursday from an independent review conducted on their signing of Mitchell Miller. That investigation, led by former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch of the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, parsed through thousands of documents related to Boston’s signing of
In the edition of Toronto Maple Leafs News & Rumors, we’ll look ahead at some of the team’s players and what might happen to them over both the near future and after this season. There are a number of “what if’s” for the team. We’ll explore some of them in this post. Item One: Another
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — The world junior hockey championship will be held in Canada the next two weeks, shadowed by Hockey Canada’s handling of explosive sexual assault allegations. The national hockey governing body has been mired in controversy for months after it was revealed in May that it settled a lawsuit with a woman
After a couple easy tune-up tests, Canada had to battle from start to finish on Friday night to defeat Finland 5-3 in Halifax in the final exhibition game ahead of the world junior men’s hockey championship. Canada, which beat Switzerland 6-0 on Monday, and Slovakia 6-1 on Wednesday, needed a power-play goal from Connor Bedard at
After a night in which they were outworked and out-skilled in nearly every facet in a 2-1 loss to the Minnesota Wild, the Edmonton Oilers bounced back against the Nashville Predators with a 6-3 win. While there were some areas that could use some cleaning up, it is tough to complain about the effort and
📝 by Ryan Holt | AHL On The Beat The path should look familiar for Olivier Rodrigue. Drafted in the second round of the 2018 NHL Draft, Rodrigue spent the past two seasons with the Bakersfield Condors, working in tandem with Stuart Skinner. Skinner spent his rookie season in the ECHL in 2018-19, established himself
7:56 PM ET Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin passed Gordie Howe for second in all-time NHL goals with 802, scoring twice against the visiting Winnipeg Jets on Friday night. Ovechkin tied Howe with a goal at 1:38 of the first period and then passed him on an empty-netter with one minute remaining in the third
After Thursday’s Toronto Maple Leafs’ victory over the Philadelphia Flyers, this season’s new Maple Leafs’ goalie Ilya Samsonov now carries a goals-against average (GAA) of 2.07 and a save percentage (SV%) of .924. That’s good, but it isn’t as good as it was just two games previously. Prior to meeting his former Washington Capitals team
Washington Capitals left-winger Alex Ovechkin, Colorado Avalanche goaltender Alexandar Georgiev and Vancouver Canucks centre Elias Pettersson have been named the NHL’s three stars of the week. Ovechkin had two goals and four assists as the Capitals won all three of their games on the week. The 37-year-old also furthered his name in the history books,