SEATTLE (AP) — Seats have been bolted into position throughout the upper deck and into the lower bowl. All the concrete has been poured and on the floor of Climate Pledge Arena, the outline of the rink is waiting to be covered in ice. Builders say the home for the newest NHL franchise, the Seattle
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The Edmonton Oilers have acquired defenceman Duncan Keith and forward Tim Soderlund from the Chicago in exchange for blue liner Caleb Jones and a conditional third-round draft pick in 2022. The 37-year-old Keith had spent his entire 16-season NHL career in Chicago, where he emerged into one of the league’s elite defencemen. He won the James
CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney who represents a former Chicago Blackhawks player who alleges he was sexually assaulted by a then-assistant coach in 2010 is open to the possibility of her client participating in the team’s review of the accusations under the right conditions. A former federal prosecutor has been hired by the Blackhawks to
Police in Michigan have turned over their investigation into the fireworks death of Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Matiss Kivlenieks to a prosecutor for review. The Novi Police Department has not requested charges in Kivlenieks’ Fourth of July death, Lt. Jason Meier said Monday. “Due to the high-profile nature, we wanted an extra set of eyes
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey Devils re-signed restricted free agent defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler to a two-year contract worth $2,250,000 on Friday. The contract has an average annual value of $1,125,000. The breakdown is as follows: $1,050,000 in the 2021-22 season and $1,200,000 in the 2022-23 season. The 24-year-old Siegenthaler was acquired from Washington
This First Person article is the experience of Taryn Perelmiter and Darpan Patel, newlyweds living in Montreal’s West Island. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. Let’s be clear: planning a wedding during a pandemic is not easy. Then again, we never were a couple to take the easiest path. Coming from
The Seattle Kraken will take the ice for the first time in Spokane for their exhibition opener, with the NHL expansion franchise touring around the state of Washington while their arena renovation is completed. The Kraken announced Friday they will play home preseason games against the Canucks in Spokane on Sept. 26, the Oilers in
When Brian Wong moved to Calgary from Hong Kong nearly thirty years ago as a teenager, he said he “felt foreign” because most of his peers in university were talking about a game that he knew nothing about. A sports buff, he found that “the corridor conversation was all about hockey, and I became determined
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,
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,
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
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 daily testing of players and
Vladimir Tarasenko has asked the St. Louis Blues for a trade, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Thursday. The Blues declined comment when asked about Tarasenko’s trade request, which was first reported by The Athletic. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the request was
To set the tone for the championship news conference that possibly redeemed a pandemic’s worth of mundane NHL Zoom calls, Nikita Kucherov showed up shirtless and overserved. Often a quiet off-ice presence for the Tampa Bay Lightning, Kucherov, in the moments after his team defeated the Montreal Canadiens 1-0 to win its second straight Stanley
This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports’ daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what’s happening in sports by subscribing here. The Tampa Bay Lightning repeated as Stanley Cup champs last night with a 1-0 Game 5 win over Montreal in front of a packed home crowd. The underdog Canadiens made a spirited