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EDMONTON—Troy Stecher scored an emotional game-winning goal Wednesday as the Vancouver Canucks beat the St. Louis Blues 5-2 to take the opener of their best-of-seven NHL playoff series. The Stanley Cup champion Blues, meanwhile, served notice they are fast becoming a hot mess in return-to-play competition. Stecher broke a 2-2 tie in the third period
Claude Julien marvelled at the Philadelphia Flyers this week. The head coach of the Montreal Canadiens was impressed by their depth, team play and skill from top to bottom. Despite a disappointing result Wednesday, Julien has now seen first-hand that his roster can hang with the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference. Carter Hart
After being told to come back the next morning because another game lasted five overtimes, the Boston Bruins didn’t want to repeat history so quickly. “We talked about trying to end this before the fifth overtime,” Patrice Bergeron said. Bergeron accomplished that by scoring early in double overtime, and the Bruins beat the Carolina Hurricanes
One by one, the Maple Leafs sat down in front of their laptops, iPads and smart phones to face the music — from a distance via video conferencing, of course — following another season that started with big dreams and ended with a resounding thud. Long faces and monotone responses greeted reporters’ questions about how
The NHL’s fourth-ever longest game ended with a power play, a slew of blocked shots, and a tired, pinpoint shot from the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Brayden Point. Point and the Lightning beat the Columbus Blue Jackets in “quintuple overtime” by a score of 3-2, ending the game after more than 150 minutes of playing time.
By the time he launched the last shot, Brayden Point was just trying to do anything he could to end the fourth-longest game in NHL history. “I just see a rolling puck and I just throw it on net,” Point said after scoring 10:27 into the fifth overtime to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a
Feeling somewhat more seasoned in playoff experience, the Vancouver Canucks now face an opponent with loads of it. Vancouver opens a first-round, best-of-seven series Wednesday in Edmonton against the defending Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues. The winner’s second-round opponent will be the victor of the series between the Calgary Flames and Dallas Stars. The
Watch live on television and online on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. ET as the Calgary Flames battle the Dallas Stars in Game 1 of their playoff series on Hockey Night in Canada. Please note that this stream is optimized for desktop or mobile web. If you prefer viewing this on the CBC Sports App, please open or download to
Revenge. A dish best served cold. In the icy arenas holding the Stanley Cup conference quarter-finals. There’s Robin Lehner, traded from Chicago at the deadline because, well, the Blackhawks weren’t going to make playoffs, were they? Now he’s in net for Vegas, taking on the … Blackhawks. There’s the Washington Capitals, who didn’t take it
Elias Pettersson saw the pitch but decided not to swing. The Vancouver Canucks forward was told during a video conference Monday that St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington believes he should have won the Calder Trophy last year as the league’s top rookie instead of Pettersson. Showing the same silky moves he uses to elude
EDMONTON—A record-setting Edmonton Oilers 50/50 draw won’t have a winner for several more days as officials work out problems with the online raffle. The community foundation said all tickets for the Friday draw, which hit more than $15 million, remain valid. But Alberta fans who want to void any ticket purchases will have until noon
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly held a blue card as the draft lottery approached its crucial moment in late June. “The No. 1 overall selection,” Daly began before flipping it over to reveal the league’s logo, “belongs to a team yet to be determined.” And with that, the second phase of the unique process in
EDMONTON—Joe Pavelski tied it with 31.4 seconds left in the third period, Anton Khudobin stopped all three shots he faced in the shootout and the Dallas Stars beat the St. Louis Blues 2-1 in round-robin play Sunday to clinch the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference. After Denis Gurianov scored the only goal of
The Maple Leafs fired blanks when it mattered most — and ran out of miracles. Now Toronto’s talented, high-powered roster has a long time to contemplate what might have been. Joonas Korpisalo made 33 saves as the Columbus Blue Jackets shut out the Leafs 3-0 on Sunday to win their best-of-five qualifying round series 3-2.
T.J. Oshie and Tom Wilson scored, Braden Holtby made 30 saves and the Washington Capitals beat the Boston Bruins 2-1 in round-robin play Sunday to clinch the No. 3 seed in the Eastern Conference and set up a first-round matchup against former coach Barry Trotz’s New York Islanders. “We know their system well,” captain Alex
The Columbus Blue Jackets are going back to Joonas Korpisalo in net against the Toronto Maple Leafs for Game 5 of their best-of-five qualifying series Sunday. The Maple Leafs forced a deciding fifth game in the series with a 4-3 comeback win in overtime on Friday, with Elvis Merzlikins in net for Columbus. Merzlikins allowed
Rookie Nicolas Aube-Kubel scored twice, and the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-1 on Saturday night to clinch the NHL Eastern Conference’s top seed through the playoffs. The Lightning not only dropped the game in completing preliminary round-robin play with a 2-1 record, but Tampa Bay’s star defenceman Victor Hedman did not return