Connor McDavid has reached new heights in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Same goes for Nathan MacKinnon. Despite the good vibes of conquering past disappointments and silencing critics, both superstars — with 11 career individual NHL awards between them — are far from satisfied with the task only half complete. McDavid’s Edmonton Oilers and MacKinnon’s Colorado
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The Edmonton Oilers have made it through two rounds of the NHL playoffs, but they’ve used two Game 1 mulligans along the way. They’ll look to start strong this time around against the Colorado Avalanche when the Western Conference final kicks off Tuesday in Denver. “We want to have a good first 10 minutes, good
SEATTLE – A goal by Lukas Svejkovsky at 3:28 of the third period held up as the winner Sunday as the Seattle Thunderbirds defeated the visiting Kamloops Blazers 2-1 to force a seventh and deciding game in the tight Western Hockey League playoff series. Kobe Verbicky gave the Blazers a 1-0 lead at 12:53 of
Sakari Manninen scored in overtime to lift host Finland to a 4-3 win over Canada in a wild gold-medal game at the men’s World Hockey Championship on Sunday in Tampere, Finland. Finland also got two goals from Mikael Granlund and another from Joel Armia. Dylan Cozens, Zach Whitecloud and Max Comtois scored for Canada, while
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Rangers got off to a strong start and didn’t need a comeback to win another elimination game. One more like this — but on the road — and they’ll be heading to the Eastern Conference finals. Igor Shesterkin stopped 37 shots and became the fifth goalie in NHL
Veteran Maple Leafs forward Jason Spezza announced his retirement Sunday after a 19-season NHL career. The 38-year-old is moving into the Maple Leafs’ front office as a special assistant to GM Kyle Dubas. Taken second overall by Ottawa in the 2001 draft, Spezza spent his first 11 seasons with the Ottawa Senators before joining the
ESTEVAN, Sask. – The Pickering Panthers and Brooks Bandits will meet Sunday in the Centennial Cup championship game, albeit the Panthers had a much tougher time getting to the winner-take-all showdown at Affinity Place. Jacob Partridge scored a shorthanded goal for the Ontario Junior Hockey League squad at 9:54 of the first period and teammate
The New York Rangers got off to a strong start and didn’t need a comeback to win another elimination game. One more like this — but on the road — and they’ll be heading to the Eastern Conference finals. Igor Shesterkin stopped 37 shots and became the fifth goalie in NHL history to have two
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Colorado forward Gabriel Landeskog finally gets a chance to play in the Western Conference Finals. The Avalanche have advanced to the Stanley Cup semifinal for the first time since the 2001-02 season. Colorado beat the St. Louis Blues 3-2 on Friday to win the best-of-seven series 4-2. “We’ve been through some
Colorado coach Jared Bednar had been looking for a little extra aggressiveness from veteran centre Darren Helm. Bednar got his wish on Friday night. Helm scored with 5.6 seconds left and Darcy Kuemper stopped 18 shots as the Avalanche finished off their second-round series with a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Blues in Game
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Darren Helm scored with 5.6 seconds left and Darcy Kuemper stopped 17 shots as the Colorado Avalanche finished off their second-round series with a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Blues in Game 6 on Friday night. J.T. Compher scored twice for Colorado, which advanced to the Western Conference finals for
WARNING: This article contains graphic content and may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it. Hockey Canada has reached a settlement with a woman who alleged in a lawsuit that she was sexually assaulted by multiple Canadian Hockey League players, including members of Canada’s gold-medal winning 2017-18 World Junior team. The assaults
Hockey Canada and the Canadian Hockey League have reportedly settled a lawsuit with a woman who claimed she was sexually assaulted by eight members of the 2018 Canadian world junior hockey team. TSN first reported the settlement Thursday, it was later confirmed by Sportsnet. The plaintiff, identified as “E.M.” in court records, claimed she was
Vincent Trocheck buried a short-handed goal, Teuvo Teravainen had a rare power-play score for Carolina and the Hurricanes beat the New York Rangers 3-1 on Thursday night to take a 3-2 lead in the second-round playoff series. Andrei Svechnikov also scored, beating Igor Shesterkin with a backhander on a breakaway midway through the third period
QUEBEC – Antoine Coulombe stopped all 30 shots he faced as the Shawinigan Cataractes defeated the Quebec Remparts 1-0 in overtime Thursday to even up their QMJHL semifinal series. Xavier Bourgault scored the game’s lone goal to win it for the Cataractes 3:51 into the extra frame. Charles Beaudoin assisted on the goal. Remparts goalie
The Edmonton Oilers are off to the Western Conference final. Connor McDavid scored at 5:03 of overtime as the Oilers defeated the Calgary Flames 5-4 on Thursday to win their second-round playoff series 4-1. The Edmonton captain fired his seventh goal of the post-season past Jacob Markstrom off a pass from Leon Draisaitl to send
TAMPERE, Finland – Drake Batherson scored 43 seconds into overtime, powering Canada to a 4-3 comeback victory over Sweden in the quarterfinals at the world hockey championship Thursday. Sweden jumped out to 3-0 lead midway through the second period with goals from Carl Klingberg, William Nylander and Max Friberg. Ryan Graves sparked Canada’s comeback with
When Cammi Granato was young, she had a fantasy: she and her hockey-mad brothers would win the lottery and buy a hockey team and manage it together. This plan, they figured, was the only way Granato, as a girl, would be able to contribute. Tony and Don Granato went on to have careers in the