Ottawa general manager Pierre Dorion says longtime Senators goaltender Craig Anderson will not be offered a new contract by the NHL club. In an availability with reporters Wednesday, Dorion thanked Anderson for his contributions to the Senators over the years but said the club would be moving in a different direction. Anderson is an unrestricted
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Hockey players crossing borders is the International Ice Hockey Federation’s stock in trade. The COVID-19 pandemic has severely curtailed that business. The IIHF has cancelled 19 tournaments so far in both 2020 and 2021. Canada, a prominent participant in and host of international hockey events, has felt the impact. IIHF president René Fasel is optimistic,
The San Jose Sharks saw enough from Bob Boughner behind their bench last season to be confident he’s the coach to lead them back to the top. Sharks general manager Doug Wilson formally retained Boughner as San Jose’s coach Tuesday, removing the interim tag to make him the ninth full-time head coach in franchise history.
In the 2019 playoffs, Luke Schenn followed his younger brother Brayden around during the Stanley Cup final. No one was cheering louder than Luke for Brayden and the St. Louis Blues. “(Teammate) Robert Thomas’s dad told me on the ice after Game 7 that the happiest guy in the building was Luke,” said Brayden. “Hearing
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. Here’s what you need to know right now from the world of sports: Wayne Gretzky is still thinking about the one that got away Last night, the NHL announced
EDMONTON—Being named the NHL’s most valuable player was a bit anticlimactic for Leon Draisaitl. After all, for the Edmonton Oilers star, it was an odd hour when news emerged that he had won both the Hart Memorial Trophy and the Ted Lindsay award. “It’s about 1:15 in the middle of the night right now so
The Tampa Bay Lightning rediscovered the zap in their power play, using it to burn the Dallas Stars 3-2 on Monday and even up the Stanley Cup final. Brayden Point and Ondrej Palat had goals on the man advantage as the Lightning scored three times in the first 16 minutes of the game then hung
Maybe the little black cloud that has hung over Steven Stamkos is about to be lifted. The captain of the Tampa Bay Lightning — out since March 2 after core muscle surgery — is said to be champing at the bit to get back into the lineup for the Stanley Cup final in Edmonton. His
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Although their team is down a game in the Stanley Cup final, Tampa Bay defenceman Victor Hedman and goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy could walk away with some hardware on Monday night. The NHL will hand out its remaining major individual trophies in a half-hour TV show (Sportsnet, 6:30 p.m.) far away from the glitter and glamour
The Tampa Bay Lightning are the latest team in the NHL playoffs to discover how much the Dallas Stars’ defence can be, well, downright offensive. The Stars scored twice via defenders jumping into the play en route to a 4-1 win over the Lightning in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final. Dallas head coach
By all rights, the goaltending storyline for a Stanley Cup final between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Dallas Stars should be revolving around Andrei Vasilevskiy and Ben Bishop. Bishop, after all, had been Tampa’s starter in its 2015 run to the final. He was eventually forced out by the tremendous play of his backup, Vasilevskiy.
A lifelong pursuit. That’s the best way to explain Halifax’s Rick Bowness and his chase for the Stanley Cup. He is the oldest coach in the NHL and he’s back in the Stanley Cup final, where he lost in his first two attempts. The interim head coach of the Dallas Stars has another shot to
The 2020-21 NHL season could start in late December or “slip into January” depending on the health conditions and COVID-19 regulations in place later this year, commissioner Gary Bettman said on Saturday before the start of the Stanley Cup final between the Dallas Stars and Tampa Bay Lightning in Edmonton. Speaking during the state of
The credo of next-man-up has the Dallas Stars one game up in the 2020 Stanley Cup final. Joel Hanley and Joel Kiviranta scored and goalie Anton Khudobin made 35 saves as the Stars beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-1 Saturday in the opening game of the NHL Stanley Cup final, at Rogers Place. Hanley, Kiviranta,
OTTAWA—Two parking lots at the Ottawa Senators’ home arena are being converted into pop-up COVID-19 assessment centres. The team says in a statement that parking lots five and six at the Canadian Tire Centre will serve as drive-through locations, and appointments will not be required in advance. The Sens say they’re working with Ottawa Public
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. Here’s what you need to know right now from the world of sports: The Stanley Cup final is set For all the unprecedented weirdness of playing an entire NHL
There’s light at the end of the bubble. It’s a silver light, gleaming off the Stanley Cup. The NHL playoffs are down to two teams: the Tampa Bay Lightning and Dallas Stars. The Stanley Cup final starts Saturday night, and if it goes the limit of seven games it will end Sept. 30, more than