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CHICAGO – No. 400 for Patrick Kane was just like so many others. A slick move, and then one well-placed shot. Kane scored his 400th career goal, Kevin Lankinen made a career-high 44 saves and the Chicago Blackhawks closed out a successful February with a 7-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday night.

Another Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team has been forced to pause its season due to COVID-19. The league announced Sunday new restrictions in Prince Edward Island have forced the Charlottetown Islanders to suspend activities until March 14. Similar restrictions in Nova Scotia have forced the Halifax Mooseheads to pause their season as COVID-19 cases

Coaching is one tough way to make a living. At the highest level in professional hockey, there are 31 head coaches. They are an elite and eclectic group, with very different career paths, different backgrounds and different makeups. Some were star players at the highest level; many had very modest playing careers and refocused their

The most memorable moment of a back-and-forth, 13-goal game between St. Louis and the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night might have come when Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington lost his composure after getting pulled midway through the second period. Binnington went after three Sharks players when he was replaced after allowing his fourth goal on

ANAHEIM, Calif. – William Karlsson scored two goals, including the winner in overtime, and the Vegas Golden Knights continued their mastery of the Anaheim Ducks with a 3-2 victory Saturday night. Karlsson scored on a breakaway and put a wrist shot past John Gibson with 1:37 remaining in overtime for his fifth goal of the

Paul Stastny’s overtime goal clinched Winnipeg’s 2-1 victory over the Montreal Canadians, extending the Jets’ winning streak to four games. Nikolaj Ehlers also scored for Winnipeg (13-6-1). The Jets were victorious despite being outshot 41-21. Connor Hellebuyck made 40 saves in the winning effort at Bell MTS Place in Winnipeg. Nick Suzuki scored for Montreal

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Sabres starting goalie Linus Ullmark will miss at least the next month with a lower-body injury, leaving Buffalo with one established netminder. Captain Jack Eichel will also miss his second game but remains day to day with a lower body injury, coach Ralph Krueger said before Buffalo hosted the Philadelphia Flyers on

Connor McDavid and Darnell Nurse caution hockey fans looking forward to an old-fashioned, 80’s-style track meet in a three-game series that opens Saturday between the Edmonton Oilers and Toronto Maple Leafs. For McDavid and Nurse say their Oilers know better than to give Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner and John Tavares on-ice real estate to work their

Corson Hopwo completed his hat trick in overtime as the Medicine Hat Tigers opened the 2020-21 Western Hockey League season with a 5-4 comeback win over the Red Deer Rebels on Friday. Medicine Hat trailed 4-1 in the third period, but Hopwo struck twice and Lukas Svejkovsky added another goal at 19:19 to force extra

Hilary Knight has played in rinks large and small spanning the globe during her 14 years representing USA Hockey. That doesn’t prevent the three-time Olympian from getting chills in anticipation of hitting the ice for the first time at Madison Square Garden on Sunday for the opening stop of the Professional Women’s Hockey Players’ Association

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Buffalo Sabres captain Jack Eichel is considered day to day, and starting goalie Linus Ullmark will miss at least the team’s two-game weekend series against the Philadelphia Flyers. In the meantime, coach Ralph Krueger still wasn’t ready on Friday to say whether high-priced forward Jeff Skinner will resume playing after a three-game

Women’s hockey star Angela James, Edmonton Oilers executive Kevin Lowe and former Hockey Canada president Bill Hay have been named to the Order of Hockey in Canada. James, from Toronto, was a member of Canada’s national women’s team from 1990 to 1999. She recorded 54 points in 50 international games and helped Canada win four

SUNRISE, Fla. – On the day the Florida Panthers opened training camp, they arrived at the arena, took their coronavirus tests, had some meetings, and hit the ice. The routine hasn’t changed much since. There’s been no reason to switch things around. The Panthers are still atop the NHL’s Central Division, rallying from a 2-0

Mike Smith collected his second shutout of the season Thursday, lifting the Edmonton Oilers to a 3-0 victory over the beleaguered Vancouver Canucks. The Oilers goalie stopped all 32 shots he faced as Edmonton (14-8-0) extended its win streak to five games. Two of Edmonton’s goals came on the power play, with Alex Chiasson and

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Buffalo Sabres defenceman Rasmus Ristolainen is putting behind the frightening two-week bout he had with COVID-19 by focusing his energy on getting back into game shape. “The way I think about it, it’s just a bump in the road, and it’s going to make me tougher and better,” Ristolainen said during a

Edmonton Oilers rearguard Darnell Nurse paused for a split second when asked, from a defenceman’s point of view, which current NHL players belong in the same class as Connor McDavid. “In his class? I think he’s unique,” Nurse said, wording his response carefully so as not to offend the other big names in the frozen

ST. LOUIS – Alex Iafallo and Andreas Athanasiou scored in the second period to send the Los Angeles Kings past the St. Louis Blues 2-1 on Wednesday night for their sixth consecutive victory. Cal Petersen made 35 saves, improving to 3-0-1 in his last four starts. Oskar Sundqvist scored late in the third for the

William Nylander scored his second goal of the night 1:06 into overtime as the North Division-leading Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Calgary Flames 2-1 on Wednesday. Michael Hutchinson stopped 21 shots for Toronto (15-4-2) in his second consecutive start in place of Frederik Andersen. The team’s top netminder remains out with a lower-body ailment. Auston