The Laval Rocket have agreed to terms on a one-year AHL contract with forward Yannick Veilleux. Veilleux joined the Rocket on a professional tryout contract on Dec. 19, 2019, and recorded 12 goals and eight assists for 20 points in 26 games with the club. He was upgraded to a standard AHL contract on Feb.
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Last season, the New York Rangers traded Mats Zuccarello to the Dallas Stars at the trade deadline. He then signed a five-year, $30 million contract with the Minnesota Wild over the offseason. The trade made sense because the Rangers were rebuilding last season and Zuccarello was a veteran in the final year of his contract.
7:00 AM ET With the 2019-20 NHL season on pause due to the coronavirus pandemic (here’s the latest update on where things stand), we’ve started the NHL Viewers Club, highlighting some of the most rewatchable games from this season — such as when EBUG David Ayres beat the Maple Leafs — along with some cool
Throughout the 2019-20 season, the highlight of the Detroit Red Wings’ defense was 22-year-old Filip Hronek. In 65 games the young defender registered 31 points, placing him fifth in scoring among Red Wings skaters. With 10 of those points coming on the power play, it appears that the team has itself an offensive catalyst on
The NHL is awaiting the result of a players’ vote on a 24-team playoff format before discussing its options on how to proceed in its bid to resume play. With the NHL Players’ Association executive board could release the results of its vote as early as Friday, but numerous questions remain whatever the decision is.
The NHL and its players are going to keep talking. The NHL Players’ Association announced late Friday its executive board has authorized “further negotiations” on a 24-team playoff format as the league bids to resume the 2019-20 season and award the Stanley Cup. The executive board, which held a vote with its 31 player representatives,
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Karl Taylor of the Milwaukee Admirals is the winner of the Louis A.R. Pieri Memorial Award as the AHL’s outstanding coach for the 2019-20 season. The award is voted on by fellow coaches and members of the media in each of the league’s 31 cities.
Two of the greatest dynasties National Hockey League history hoisted Lord Stanley’s Cup on this date. May 21 has also seen some big individual performances and final games for future Hall of Famers. A Pair of Dynastic Wins On May 21, 1979, the Montreal Canadiens won their fourth straight Stanly Cup and their sixth of
7:40 AM ET For a goalie who had just faced 102 shots on goal, Cory Schneider of the New Jersey Devils was looking curiously rested in his postgame interview. In fact, he hadn’t even broken a sweat during the game. “There are games where you just have to give a lot of credit to your
Introducing The Hockey Writers’ Countdown to Puck Drop series. From now until the puck drops on the 2019-20 NHL’s regular season on Oct. 2 when the Toronto Maple Leafs host the Ottawa Senators, we’ll be producing content that’s connected to the number of days remaining on that particular day. Some posts may be associated with
It was an incendiary piece of writing on the sport of hockey. A former NHL player describing the “racism, misogyny, bullying and homophobia that permeates the culture of hockey.” The reaction? Well, lots from hockey fans and people on social media. And almost nothing from the NHL or its biggest stars. A silent shrug. It’s
Patrik Laine is eager to get back on the ice. The Winnipeg Jets sniper also knows post-quarantine hockey will feature plenty of rust — at least initially — if the NHL gets the green light to return this summer. “My game is probably gonna look terrible since I haven’t skated for two months,” Laine said
As we await word on when the NHL will hold its draft, it seems like a good time to begin looking at which players the New Jersey Devils should target. As it stands, they hold three first-round picks — all of which will be in the top 20 — in what’s a stacked first round.
9:00 AM ET There’s this perception about the hockey media: that we’re all bitterly jealous of the players we cover, because we secretly want their careers. Nothing could be further from the truth: Most of us are bitterly jealous of the executives who sign those players, because secretly we want their careers. We create trades.
In today’s NHL rumor rundown, Tyson Barrie comments on his pending unrestricted free agency, and where he sees himself next season. In Montreal, there is renewed talk about the Canadiens going after Mikhail Sergachev. Finally, the NHL has focused in on a playoff format that it plans to propose to the players. Barrie Comments on
The NHL Players’ Association’s executive board is voting on a 24-team playoff proposal as the return to play format, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Thursday night because the vote was still ongoing. Results of the vote could be in as
Rimouski Oceanic captain Alexis Lafreniere has added some more hardware to his collection. Lafreniere — the presumptive No. 1 pick at the 2020 NHL Draft — captured his second straight Quebec Major Junior Hockey League MVP award on Thursday, becoming only the second player in history to win back-to-back Michel Briere Memorial trophies. NHL star
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that John McCarthy of the San Jose Barracuda is the 2019-20 winner of the Fred T. Hunt Memorial Award as the AHL player who best exemplifies the qualities of sportsmanship, determination and dedication to hockey. The award is voted on by coaches, players and members of