With the trade deadline mere weeks away and the Tampa Bay Lightning once again being a contender, it’s time to start seriously looking at players that general manager Julien BriseBois could target at the deadline. Of course, any trade the Lightning make will be complicated, as the team is pushed squarely against the cap, and
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📝 by Patrick Williams Nolan Baumgartner reconnected with his playing roots when he signed on as an assistant coach with the Manitoba Moose last July. Now the 46-year-old Baumgartner’s AHL accomplishments will be made permanent when he enters the league’s Hall of Fame. His enshrinement follows 16 seasons of pro hockey in which he put
9:00 AM ET The Boston Bruins have dominated everything this season. Well, except for the NHL All-Star Skills breakaway challenge, where David Pastrnak probably should have workshopped that “Happy Gilmore” tribute a bit more. Here’s a consolation prize for the Bruins star winger: He has moved into the top three for NHL most valuable player
Connor McDavid extended his point streak to 13 games and Warren Foegele scored twice in the second period, helping the visiting Edmonton Oilers beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-2 on Tuesday night. Foegele, a fourth-round winger, had his first two-goal game of the season one game after he was a healthy scratch. “It’s one of
The Colorado Avalanche are looking ahead to the second half of the season, and most of the eyes are focused on when some of the big names will return to the lineup. Gabriel Landeskog hasn’t played yet this season, and Valeri Nichushkin has played in less than half the team’s games thanks to surgeries. Explore
Brock Boeser, right winger for the Vancouver Canucks, is available to be acquired via trade, and the Boston Bruins should be interested. The 25-year-old Boeser has an elite shot and has proven to be a very good goal scorer at the NHL level since joining the Canucks in 2017; despite this, however, he’s struggled to
📝 by Patrick Williams LAVAL, Que. … “Five?” Ontario Reign offensive dynamo T.J. Tynan half-asked, half-yelled from his locker room stall when he overheard that next-door neighbor Seth Griffith had put up five goals at the Mise-o-jeu AHL All-Star Challenge on Monday night. Griffith has worked magic with the puck in the AHL for parts
8:00 AM ET Norm Hall/NHLI via Getty Images Of all the conversations I had at All-Star weekend in Florida, one with Sidney Crosby stuck out. He told me, multiple times, that the league feels more competitive than it has ever been. In 18 years in the NHL, Crosby said he has never seen anything like
San Jose Sharks (15-25-11, seventh in the Pacific Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (32-16-1, third in the Atlantic Division) Tampa, Florida; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK NHL LINE: Lightning -283, Sharks +231; over/under is 6.5 BOTTOM LINE: The San Jose Sharks visit the Tampa Bay Lightning after Logan Couture’s two-goal game against the Pittsburgh
Two days after being named MVP of the NHL all-star game on home ice, Matthew Tkachuk had a five-point night with two goals as the Florida Panthers beat the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning 7-1 on Monday night. Tkachuk, who was also named NHL first star of the week for his all-star performance, had a hand
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, Patrick Kane has been given a list of teams that are interested in trading for him. How did he respond? The Boston Bruins aren’t likely to be interested in Timo Meier unless David Pastrnak decides to test the free-agent market. Dylan Larkin knows his value after the Bo Horvat extension,
Patrick Kane is one of the top trade targets heading into the 2023 Trade Deadline, and it is easy to understand why. The future Hall of Famer is a pending unrestricted free agent (UFA) playing for a rebuilding Chicago Blackhawks squad. With that, he of course is a three-time Stanley Cup winner, so playoff teams
LAVAL, Que. … Goaltenders Dustin Wolf of the Calgary Wranglers and Lukas Dostal of the San Diego Gulls shared Most Valuable Player honors, backstopping the Pacific Division to victory in the 2023 Mise-o-jeu AHL All-Star Challenge on Monday night. Wolf and Dostal combined to stop 42 of 49 shots over 46 minutes of work during
11:49 PM ET Marek Hejduk scored two goals, including the game winner with 1.5 seconds left in overtime, and Harvard outlasted Boston College, 4-3, in one of the Beanpot’s semifinal games Monday night at Boston’s TD Garden. The annual college hockey tournament, featuring four Boston-area schools, did not disappoint on Day 1 this year. Hejduk,
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Jakob Chychrun had two goals, Jack McBain scored the tie-breaking goal on a breakaway with seven minutes remaining and the Arizona Coyotes beat the Minnesota Wild 3-2 on Monday night. McBain put a back-hander past Marc-Andre Fleury moments after the Coyotes killed off an abbreviated 55-second power play. Karel Vejmelka had
Alexis Lafreniere scored 1:37 into overtime and Jaroslav Halak made 28 saves as the New York Rangers beat the Calgary Flames 5-4 on Monday night. Lafreniere led a 2-on-1 rush and then tracked down the rebound of Mika Zibanejad’s shot, beating netminder Jacob Markstrom for his seventh goal this season. That ended a frenzied game
Looking at some superstars that could potentially be on the move, it’s hard for me not to think about Ottawa Senators forward Alex DeBrincat. After being acquired from the Chicago Blackhawks in the offseason, he has continued to prove why he is an offensive threat that any team in the league would love to have.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have had many chances over the past few seasons to win the Stanley Cup; but, instead, they haven’t been able to get out of the first round. Their sister team, the NBA’s Toronto Raptors, won a championship in 2019. However, to win they traded away a fan favorite in DeMar DeRozan.