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Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid ran away in the voting to win his second Hart Trophy as NHL MVP on Tuesday, much like he blew away the competition while leading the league in points. McDavid became just the second unanimous Hart selection — joining Wayne Gretzky in 1982 — in receiving all 100 first-place votes

EDMONTON – The Edmonton Oilers have signed centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins to an eight-year extension with an average annual value of US$5.125 million. Nugent-Hopkins’ previous deal for seven years and $42 million expired after this season. The native of Burnaby, B.C., had 16 goals and 19 assists in 52 games this year. Nugent-Hopkins finished third on

Veteran forward Wayne Simmonds has signed a two-year contract extension with the Toronto Maple Leafs. The team says his contract has an average annual value of $900,000 US. Simmonds, 32, played in 38 regular-season games with the Maple Leafs during the 2020-21 season, with seven goals and two assists. He had an assist in seven

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — After carrying the Montreal Canadiens to the Stanley Cup Final with sublime goaltending, Carey Price stopped just about everything he saw in Game 1 against the Tampa Bay Lightning. The defending champions lead the series because they made sure Price didn’t see very much and his teammates saw plenty of the

It took the Montreal Canadiens 28 years to get back to the Stanley Cup final. They’ll have to wait a little longer for a win. The defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning dominated the Habs from start to finish Monday, taking Game 1 in a lopsided 5-1 contest that defender Jeff Petry insisted was closer than

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Bruins star David Pastrnak says his son has died six days after birth. He did not disclose a cause. Pastrnak posted on Instagram that girlfriend Rebecca Rohlsson gave birth to Viggo Rohl Pastrnak, who died June 23. “We have an Angel watching over us and we call him SON. You will

The Montreal Canadiens appreciate the magnitude of the task awaiting them in the Stanley Cup Final. Their opponents, the Tampa Bay Lightning, are defending Stanley Cup Champions. They boast four lines that can score, arguably the best blueliner in the National Hockey League and an elite netminder in Andrei Vasilevskiy. Tampa forward Nikita Kucherov leads

The Tampa Bay Lightning are trying to become the first NHL team to repeat as Stanley Cup champions since Pittsburgh in 2016-17. And captain Steven Stamkos knows how significant that would be. Stamkos had a hard time getting the first one. He played only game of Tampa’s run last season — scoring on his only

Montreal Canadiens forward Joel Armia has been placed in the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol and won’t travel with the team for the start of the Stanley Cup final on Monday against the Lightning in Tampa, Fla. General manager Marc Bergevin made the announcement after Armia was not at practice in Montreal before the Canadiens travelled to

At a time when the NHL would very much like the focus to be on the Stanley Cup final, at least part of the attention paid to the league is over its handling of an alleged sex-assault case involving the Chicago Blackhawks. Reporting from TSN and a Chicago public radio station has shed light on

The Montreal Canadiens fired their head coach in February, battled a COVID-19 outbreak in March and squeaked into the NHL post-season in May with the lowest point total of any playoff team. Five weeks later, the Canadiens have booked passage to the Stanley Cup final for the first time since 1993. They roared back from a 3-1 series deficit in

Looking back on how the Maple Leafs approached this past season, maybe the method seemed logical enough. They had spent the bulk of previous seasons mixing flashes of eye-popping promise with stretches of uninspired play. Maybe, the management team posited, it was that chronic unevenness that explained Toronto’s disappointing succession of playoff performances. They were

Dominique Ducharme is doing his best not to look at the calendar. And even still, the days are passing much slower than normal. The Montreal Canadiens interim head coach, who tested positive for COVID-19 prior to Game 3 of their semifinal against the Vegas Golden Knights, was hoping to avoid a full 14-day quarantine and

When Bob Tory saw a 14-year-old Carey Price tend goal in Williams Lake, B.C., he plotted a strategy of deception. The Tri-City Americans had the seventh pick in the 2002 Western Hockey League bantam draft. Tory wanted Price to be available when the Americans made their choice. “I had a little advantage because back then

Thanks to Andrei Vasilevskiy and another stellar defensive performance, the defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning are headed back to the Stanley Cup final. “It’s becoming a broken record, but it’s not how many you put in the net, it’s how many you keep out,” coach Jon Cooper said Friday night after Vasilevskiy had 18 saves

It will be the Tampa Bay Lightning against the Montreal Canadiens for the Stanley Cup. Yanni Gourde’s short-handed goal and an 18-save shutout by Andrei Vasilevskiy led the Lightning past the New York Islanders 1-0 on Friday night in Game 7 of their Stanley Cup semifinal. Tampa will be looking for its third Stanley Cup,

For the first time in nearly three decades, the Montreal Canadiens are headed to the Stanley Cup final — just as the city emerges from the darkness of the pandemic. Thursday’s series-clinching victory over the Vegas Golden Knights comes as Quebec further eases public health restrictions, with the vaccination rate rising and COVID-19 cases on the

It’s been a decade since Canada had a team in the Stanley Cup final. That’s a long wait for the birthplace of the game. Watching all-American matchups in the Cup final year after year has been a bit depressing. Seeing Las Vegas get to the final in that team’s very first year of existence felt