Sean Monahan scored his first goal of the season and added an assist Saturday night as the Calgary Flames, backstopped by Jacob Markstrom’s 20-save shutout, made it six wins in a row with a 4-0 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers. Matthew Tkachuk, Johnny Gaudreau and Mikael Backlund, into an empty net, also scored for Calgary
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Through my 50-plus years in hockey I’ve always taken pride in the team aspect. It’s the greatest of all team sports — no one can win alone. It demands that teammates contribute in order to achieve success. You have to rely on others; they rely on you. That’s simply the way it works. The greater
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman talked to Kyle Beach on Saturday about what the league can do to better protect its players after the 2008 first-round pick said he was sexually assaulted by an assistant coach two years later and his allegations were largely ignored by Chicago. Susan Loggans, an attorney representing Beach in a lawsuit
LAVAL, Que. – Michael Mersch struck twice as the Rochester Americans fended off the Laval Rocket 4-3 on Friday in American Hockey League action. Casey Fitzgerald’s third-period goal stood as the winner for Rochester (3-2-0) and Brandon Davidson also scored. Aaron Dell made 32 saves for the win. Rafaël Harvey-Pinard and Xavier Ouellet both had
Josh Norris scored two goals in his U.S. NHL debut, and the Ottawa Senators snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-1 win over the Dallas Stars on Friday night. Brady Tkachuk and Connor Brown also scored for Ottawa. Filip Gustavsson made 35 saves in his 12th NHL game. The 22-year-old Norris, the 19th overall
Andrew Brunette has a chance to be an NHL head coach now, taking over a Florida Panthers team that is off to the best start in franchise history. It should be a happy time. It is not. Brunette debuted as the replacement for Joel Quenneville as Florida’s coach on Friday, running the Panthers through a
The NHL says it will not discipline Winnipeg Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff in connection with the Chicago team’s mishandling of sexual assault allegations against a former video coach. The news follows Cheveldayoff’s meeting with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on Friday. The league said he was found as “not responsible for the improper decisions” made by the
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pierre-Luc Dubois scored twice, Kyle Connor had three assists and the Winnipeg Jets used a third-period charge to defeat the Los Angeles Kings 3-2 on Thursday night. Andrew Copp had a power-play goal for the Jets, who have won four straight. Eric Comrie allowed two goals on 32 shots in his
Joel Quenneville tendered his resignation as head coach of the Florida Panthers on Thursday amid an ongoing investigation into allegations of sexual assaults levied against a former Chicago video coach. The 63-year-old, who coached Chicago from 2008-2018, met with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on Thursday to discuss his response to the organizational mishandling of the allegations that Brad
Former NHL player Sheldon Kennedy says he thinks the Chicago Blackhawks sexual assault scandal is an example of how an organization’s “systemic response” needs to change. Reached today in Lucky Lake, Sask., Kennedy says hockey needs to get to a point where winning at all costs “isn’t the No. 1 priority.” A report this week
WARNING: This story contains distressing details Kyle Beach has stepped forward as John Doe 1 in the Chicago NHL team’s sexual assault investigation. Beach appeared on TSN’s SportsCentre on Wednesday night to identify himself as the first accuser of former Chicago video coach Brad Aldrich. He had been named John Doe 1 in court documents related
OWEN SOUND, Ont. – Luke Evangelista scored twice to power the London Knights past the Owen Sound Attack 4-1 on Wednesday in Ontario Hockey League play. The Knights have won seven straight to begin their season. Max McCue and Colton Smith added goals for London (7-0-0), while Brett Brochu made 32 saves for the win.
Cam Atkinson scored a pair of goals as the Philadelphia Flyers prevailed in a 5-3 slugfest against the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday. Claude Giroux, Nate Thompson and Sean Couturier also scored for the Flyers (3-1-1). Tyson Barrie, Connor McDavid and Zach Hyman replied for the Oilers (5-1-0), who suffered their first loss of the season.
Tampa Bay Lightning winger Nikita Kucherov is expected to be out 8-10 weeks after undergoing an unspecified surgery for an unspecified lower-body injury. The two-time defending Stanley Cup champions announced Kucherov’s prognosis with no additional details Wednesday. The timeframe would mean Kucherov could be back playing just before or after the New Year. Kucherov was
For the Florida Panthers, there has never been a better start to a season. The next few days, though, could change everything. Panthers coach Joel Quenneville’s future is in jeopardy, after he was named in a report citing how Chicago mishandled allegations that an assistant on his Chicago staff sexually assaulted a player during the team’s
VANCOUVER – Matt Dumba scored his first goal of the season midway through the third period as the Minnesota Wild used a 3-2 victory to spoil the Vancouver Canucks’ NHL home-opener Tuesday night. Mats Zuccarello and Jonas Brodin also scored for the Wild (5-1-0). Alex Chiasson, on a power play, and Bo Horvat scored for
Nikolaj Ehlers scored twice 19 seconds apart in the third period as the Winnipeg Jets rallied for a 4-3 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday night. The Jets trailed 3-2 late in the third period before Ehlers tied it with 1:20 remaining after a scramble following a faceoff deep in the offensive zone. He
The Chicago Blackhawks are holding a briefing Tuesday to discuss the findings of an investigation into allegations that an assistant coach sexually assaulted a player in 2010. Team owner Rocky Wirtz, CEO Danny Wirtz and former federal prosecutor Reid Schar, who ran the investigation, are scheduled to speak. The Blachhawks’ news release about the briefing