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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

It’s laudable for the NHL and the NHL Players’ Association to protest acts of violence against Black people, but the league and players should also speak out against racism faced by Indigenous people, says Terry Teegee, Regional Chief of the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations. Teegee, a member of the Takla Lake First Nation,

The Stars are used to the bubble. They just aren’t used to time off in the bubble. Since the Stars played St. Louis in the last game of the round robin on Aug. 9, the team has never had more than one day between games — save for the leaguewide, two-day walkout in the second

The leaves are starting to change colour around the NHL playoff bubble, and, at most, seven games remain before the Stanley Cup is handed out. On Saturday night, two of the league’s southernmost teams begin a Stanley Cup final like none other in the great white north when the Dallas Stars and Tampa Bay Lightning

EDMONTON—Five years after socially distancing from the Prince of Wales Trophy and losing in the Stanley Cup final, the Tampa Bay Lightning got their hands on and arms around it to embrace their Eastern Conference championship. Anthony Cirelli scored in overtime and Tampa Bay beat the New York Islanders 2-1 in Game 6 of the

Five years after socially distancing from the Prince of Wales Trophy and losing in the Stanley Cup Final, the Tampa Bay Lightning got their hands on and arms around it to embrace their Eastern Conference championship. Anthony Cirelli scored in overtime and Tampa Bay beat the New York Islanders 2-1 in Game 6 of the

Edmonton will host another major hockey event with no fans after the International Ice Hockey Federation confirmed Rogers Place will be the site of the 2021 world junior championship on Thursday. The IIHF Council approved the Hockey Canada plan, which sees one of two planned cities for the 2021 event maintain hosting duties during the

The Toronto Maple Leafs have added Manny Malhotra to the bench, hiring the former NHL centre as an assistant coach. Malhotra, 40, spent the past three seasons as an assistant coach with the Vancouver Canucks. The Leafs had an opening on staff after assistant Paul McFarland left after the season to become head coach of

EDMONTON—Jon Cooper might have reacted differently five years ago to losing in double overtime in Tampa Bay’s first chance to move on to the Stanley Cup final, sulking with his head down and kicking the nearest soda can. That’s not his or his team’s reaction now. Sure, the Lightning didn’t close out the New York

Jim Montgomery was hired by the St. Louis Blues as an assistant Wednesday, less than a year since he was fired by the Dallas Stars for unprofessional conduct. Montgomery is getting a second chance in the NHL 10 months since Stars general manager Jim Nill said the 51-year-old coach acted inconsistently with “core values and

EDMONTON—Dallas Stars general manager Jim Nill says interim head coach Rick Bowness has “earned the right” to come back behind the bench, but says the decision will come after the Stanley Cup final. “He definitely has earned the right to come back as the coach,” Nill told reporters Tuesday on a Zoom call a day

An off-ice battle between hockey star Lanny McDonald and best-selling NHL author Kirstie McLellan Day has made its way to a Calgary courtroom. McDonald and Day have been working on a book together over the past year, but the hall of famer who won the Stanley Cup with the Calgary Flames in 1989 as co-captain

EDMONTON—Jordan Eberle scored on a two-on-one break 12:30 into the second overtime and the New York Islanders avoided elimination with a 2-1 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference final on Tuesday night. Semyon Varlamov stopped 36 shots and Ryan Pulock also scored for the Islanders, who cut the

Jordan Eberle scored on a two-on-one break 12:30 into the second overtime and the New York Islanders avoided elimination with a 2-1 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference final on Tuesday night. Semyon Varlamov stopped 36 shots and Ryan Pulock also scored for the Islanders, who cut the

The Dallas Stars were mired in a six-game losing streak when the season was paused for 4 1/2 months because of the coronavirus pandemic, and have been outscored and outshot since getting inside the NHL bubble. Yet now they are one of only three teams still playing, already set for their first Stanley Cup Final

Denis Gurianov scored on a one-timer during a power play 3:36 into overtime, and the Dallas Stars beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2 on Monday night to advance to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since 2000. The Stars forced overtime in Game 5 with two goals in the final 10:06 of regulation.

EDMONTON—Denis Gurianov scored on a one-timer during a power play 3:36 into overtime, and the Dallas Stars beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2 on Monday night to advance to the Stanley Cup final for the first time since 2000. The Stars forced overtime in Game 5 of the Western Conference final with two goals in

NHL general managers left their annual March meetings in Florida filled with optimism. The salary cap was projected to hit at least $84 million (U.S.) in 2020-21 — a bump of $2.5 million from the current season — and had the potential to rise to $88.2 million if the NHL Players’ Association maxed out the