ESPN News Services Jan 6, 2024, 07:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Professional Women’s Hockey League game between Minnesota and Montreal on Saturday set an attendance record for the most watched professional women’s ice hockey event with 13,316 people at Xcel Energy Center, the league said. The record crowd, which
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The Hershey Bears have once again established a new hockey record, collecting 74,599 stuffed toys during Sunday’s annual Teddy Bear Toss. This surpasses the club’s previous hockey world record of 67,309 collected in 2023. Bogdan Trineyev sent the fur flying with his goal 4:15 into the second period. The Bears would go on to a 3-2
Carson Brière, the son of Philadelphia Flyers general manager Daniel Brière, will enter a Pennsylvania program for first-time offenders after being charged for pushing an unoccupied wheelchair down a staircase. Police in Erie, Pa., filed charges of criminal mischief, criminal conspiracy to commit mischief and disorderly conduct against the son of the retired Gatineau, Que.,
On Jan. 5, 19-year-old Philadelphia Flyers forward prospect Cutter Gauthier captured gold for the United States at the 2024 World Junior Championship (WJC), becoming the tournament’s best forward as voted by the IIHF for his two goals and 10 assists for 12 points. Not only did that give him the highest point total for Team
The Minnesota Wild have had a strange season, to say the least. A very slow start led to a coaching change that prompted a tremendous win-streak, only to encounter a massive number of injuries to key players that now threaten their playoff hopes once again. One of the Wild’s biggest losses has been that of
ESPN News Services Jan 6, 2024, 08:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DENVER — Sam Reinhart scored three times for his seventh career hat trick, and the surging Florida Panthers defeated the Colorado Avalanche 8-4 on Saturday for their seventh straight win. Reinhart has 10 goals during Florida’s win streak, including three multigoal games. Sergei
Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer When a team is in its 86th season, new records are difficult to set. But the Hershey Bears have been breaking new ground. The defending Calder Cup champions are off to the best start in club history with 56 points (28-7-0-0) through 35 games. They complete the first half of
Nate Schmidt and Cole Perfetti scored in the third period, and the Winnipeg Jets beat the Anaheim Ducks 3-1 on Friday night to extend their point streak to 11 games. Nikolaj Ehlers also scored for Winnipeg, and Laurent Brossoit made 37 saves. Vladislav Namestnikov had two assists. The Jets earned their fifth consecutive win and
As an Original Six team, the New York Rangers have been involved in a ton of trades, some of little significance, and some that have shaped or reshaped the entire organization. Perhaps the biggest trade the Rangers were involved in was on Oct. 4, 1991, when they acquired Mark Messier from the Edmonton Oilers. Messier
By all reports, it appears that the contract talks between the Toronto Maple Leafs and William Nylander are going hot and heavy. If what we are hearing is correct from TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger who joined OverDrive to discuss Nylander’s ongoing contract discussions, the numbers that started lower in the summer have now moved
ESPN News Services Jan 6, 2024, 10:56 PM ET Open Extended Reactions COLUMBUS, Ohio — Another week, another milestone for Marc-Andre Fleury. Seven days after he appeared in his 1,000th game, joining only three other goaltenders in NHL history, Fleury notched his 551st career win, when Marco Rossi scored 3:05 into overtime of the Minnesota
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … American Hockey League President and CEO Scott Howson announced today that the Board of Governors has unanimously approved the Coachella Valley Firebirds as hosts of the 2025 AHL All-Star Classic. The event will be held at Acrisure Arena, a world-class sports and entertainment venue in Palm Desert, Calif., which opened in December
Chicago’s NHL team placed rookie centre Connor Bedard on injured reserve Saturday with a broken jaw. Bedard got hurt when he was levelled by New Jersey defenceman Brendan Smith midway through the first period of Friday night’s 4-2 loss to the Devils. Nick Foligno also went on IR with a broken left finger, adding another name to
The All-Star selections were announced on Jan. 4 and every team will have one skater making the trip to Toronto for the first weekend of February. The New York Islanders have three if not four, skaters worthy of receiving the All-Star nod but only Mathew Barzal has been selected thus far. Noah Dobson, Bo Horvat,
The Philadelphia Flyers ended their losing streak at four games in their Ed Snider legacy match with the Calgary Flames with a 3-2 victory. Despite running into a red-hot Flames goaltender, Jacob Markstrom, who stopped 39 of the 42 shots he faced, the Flyers pulled out a win. Moving to 20-13-6 on the season, what
Greg Wyshynski, ESPNJan 6, 2024, 12:39 PM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Open Extended Reactions Chicago Blackhawks rookie sensation Connor Bedard fractured his jaw on Friday night and has been placed on injured reserve. Bedard left in the first period of the 4-2 loss at New Jersey Devils after a hit
To realize that dream Friday, lining up against Ovechkin and the Capitals, took some patience — and some urgency. A second-round pick (No. 53) in the 2020 NHL Draft, Ponomarev finished his major junior career with Shawinigan of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League in 2020-21 before splitting the 2021-22 season between Moskow Spartak in
Connor Hellebuyck is set to shine among the NHL’s best once again. The Winnipeg Jets netminder, called Bucky by teammates, will make his fourth all-star appearance — and second straight — when the league celebrates the game’s most outstanding players next month in Toronto. Hellebuyck, 30, is in his ninth full season in the NHL,