Month: August 2020

With the NHL salary cap not likely to increase during the offseason, some teams will fare better than others. The San Jose Sharks might be on the wrong end of that, with bad contracts significantly hurting them. For instance, the Colorado Avalanche having Nathan MacKinnon locked into four more years at $6.3 million is an
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7:00 AM ET The Stanley Cup playoffs are lot like the stock market, and not just because they’re a venue through which very rich people invest very large sums of money for (sometimes) very little return. Both are infamous for their fluctuation. Stock prices climb and fall and climb again. NHL teams and players exhibit
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The Pittsburgh Penguins have acquired forward Kasperi Kapanen, forward Pontus Aberg and defenseman Jesper Lindgren from the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for forward Evan Rodrigues, defenseman David Warsofsky, forward Filip Hallander and a 2020 first-round draft pick. Kapanen returns to the Penguins organization, where he broke in with the AHL’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in 2015.
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The Erie Otters made a somewhat unexpected trade on Monday afternoon. They sent one of their best forwards to the Eastern conference. The trade sees 2020 Draft Prospect Hayden Fowler go to the Oshawa Generals in exchange for three draft picks including a 2022 second rounder (Kitchener), a 2024 third rounder (Mississauga) and a 2022
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Semyon Varlamov stopped 29 shots, Andy Greene scored his first playoff goal in a decade and the New York Islanders opened their second-round series with a 4-0 win over the Philadelphia Flyers Monday night. The Islanders buzzed early in their first playoff meeting with the rival Flyers since 1987, withstood a second-period flurry and closed
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