10:26 PM ET Star winger Vladimir Tarasenko has requested a trade from the St. Louis Blues, a source confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday. Tarasenko, 29, is in the seventh year of an eight-year, $60 million deal he signed in July 2015. He has a full no-trade clause to go along with 218 goals and 224
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The Boston Bruins have signed forwards Cameron Hughes and Joona Koppanen each to one-year, two-way contract extensions. Hughes, 24, was an Atlantic Division AHL All-Star in 2020-21 as he led the Providence Bruins in assists (16) and points (21) while skating in all 25 team games. He also skated in one NHL contest with Boston.
Don’t yell at me. I didn’t make the rules. And don’t yell at the Tampa Bay Lightning either. They didn’t make them, nor did they break them. They just played by them better than anyone else, and it resulted in their second straight Stanley Cup. Everyone looks for an edge in competitive sports. If you
Matiss Kivlenieks travelled to Michigan with teammate and close friend Elvis Merzlikins for the wedding of the daughter of Columbus Blue Jackets’ goaltender coach Manny Legace and a Fourth of July celebration. The festive weekend ended in tragedy Sunday night when the 24-year-old goaltender from Latvia, who was spending the summer in the United States,
The 2020-21 NHL season wasn’t even over before the trade rumor-mill started churning. In fact, in the midst of Game 5 between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Montreal Canadiens Wednesday night, the Twitterverse was hit with some breaking news of a certain superstar forward requesting a trade. Jeremey Rutherford of The Athletic broke the news
From the moment he made his NHL debut against the Winnipeg Jets on October 14, 1981, to the Edmonton Oilers elimination in the first round of the 1989 playoffs at the hands of Wayne Gretzky and the Los Angeles Kings, no goaltender had accomplished more during said period of time than Grant Fuhr. In fact,
3:56 PM ET Associated Press Former NHL defenseman Bryan “Bugsy” Watson, who played for Scotty Bowman and with Doug Harvey and coached Wayne Gretzky, has died. He was 78. A Washington Capitals spokesperson said Friday that Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which owns the team, learned of his death Thursday from a member of Watson’s family.
The route to the NHL was anything but a straight line for Cail MacLean. The Middleton native first left home to chase his dream as a 15-year-old and just arrived at the final destination this summer when the Calgary Flames named him an assistant coach. Along the way, MacLean played five years of junior in
Former NHL defenseman Bryan “Bugsy” Watson, who played for Scotty Bowman, with Doug Harvey and coached Wayne Gretzky during his time in hockey, has died. He was 78. A Washington Capitals spokesman said Friday that Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which owns the club, learned of his death Thursday from a member of Watson’s family. A
In the midst of a pandemic, Carey Price transfixed hockey fans with super-human goaltending through three rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs — invoking memories of his gold-medal performance for Team Canada at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. In the first three games of the Stanley Cup final, at the worst possible time for the Montreal Canadiens,
The New Jersey Devils have found themselves in a rebuild over the past three seasons, finishing near the bottom of the division over the past three years after making the playoffs in 2017-18. With faces like Nico Hischier and Jack Hughes heading an emerging forward core, the Devils find themselves looking for a face for
The great Jacques Plante summed it up this way, “Imagine sitting at your desk. You make a mistake. A red light goes on behind you, a siren starts sounding and 18,000 people are yelling at you. That’s what it’s like to be a goaltender.” Jacques Plante poses for a photo with Vladislav Tretiak of the
CalgaryFlames.com takes a closer look at some of our young prospects – today, it’s Glenn Gawdin. It’s all there for the taking. Glenn Gawdin just has to seize the opportunity that lies in front of him firmly in his grasp. It’s been an unconventional route to the NHL for the centre, going unsigned by the
4:48 PM ET Associated Press Face masks were as prevalent as pucks throughout the NHL this past season, but documents show Canadian health officials wanted the league to take additional steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The league introduced a number of protocols in a bid to get back on the ice, including the
Pausing the Stanley Cup celebration and with his voice still hoarse from partying, Alex Killorn acknowledged the back-to-back champion Tampa Bay Lightning will not be back together on the ice when the NHL returns in the fall. “We’re all grown men, and we understand that in a salary-cap system, the team is definitely going to
Marc Bergevin never questioned his grand plan. The Montreal Canadiens general manager was, however, left searching for answers throughout long stretches of an improbable, roller-coaster 2021. Bergevin’s team, the one he’s built over nine years in his hockey-mad hometown and province, owned the NHL’s best record through 10 games of the league’s pandemic-shortened schedule. Montreal
News of Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Matiss Kivlenieks’ tragic passing broke the airwaves on Monday and left the NHL community shocked and deeply saddened. Kivlenieks, at just 24, was killed on Sunday night after a fireworks accident. The tragedy ripped a hole through Columbus’ hockey community. However, through the grief and shock, Columbus did what
Numbers, stats, and figures are an integral part of the hockey viewing experience. The game is rife with scoring slumps, hot streaks, losing skids, and dynastic stretches of winning. The thing is, not all streaks are created equal. Sometimes remarkable individual accolades take center stage as one particular player lights the league on fire. During