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GLENDALE, ARIZ.—Arizona general manager John Chayka earned a contract extension early this season for building the Coyotes into playoff contenders in four short years. He was being called a quitter by the team in a strongly worded statement on Sunday after stepping down a week before the Coyotes’ Stanley Cup qualifier series against Nashville. Former

Sheldon Keefe didn’t play for long under John Tortorella in Tampa Bay — just 93 of his 125 NHL games. A high-scoring junior winger, Keefe was out the door by the time his old boss guided the Lightning to their only Stanley Cup victory in 2004. But both men, set to meet in the league’s

After being paused for nearly five months because of the coronavirus pandemic, the NHL will play games that matter when it resumes Saturday. The new-look season will include 24 teams with 12 playing in each hub city — Toronto (Eastern Conference) or Edmonton (Western Conference). The top four teams from each conference will be playing

The Winnipeg Jets, backed by the razor-sharp goaltending of Connor Hellebuyck, overcame a sloppy first period to beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-1 in exhibition play Wednesday. Hellebuyck batted away numerous one-timers from below the face-off dot and stoned Canucks sniper Brock Boeser on a breakaway to bail out his teammates before the Jets found their

Jason Spezza has worn a suit to nearly every game he’s played since breaking into the Ontario Hockey League at age 15. Now 37 years old, the Toronto Maple Leafs forward doesn’t know anything different. But with the NHL relaxing dress code rules during its restart, he’s open to change — especially in a season

Vancouver Canucks forward Micheal Ferland has spent much of this season battling to overcome concussion symptoms. His concentration on getting healthy didn’t stop him from watching the protests that were ignited following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the subsequent discussion about racism in both Canada and the U.S. Ferland, a 28-year-old

Pittsburgh’s Conor Sheary scored the first-ever NHL goal in the month of July, but his Penguins lost 3-2 in overtime to the Philadelphia Flyers in exhibition play on Tuesday at Scotiabank Arena. Scott Laughton, a native of nearby Oakville, buried the overtime winner for the Flyers. The game between Pennsylvania’s NHL teams was the first

Connor McDavid scored two goals Tuesday to pace the Oilers to a 4-1 win over the Calgary Flames in the official debut of Edmonton’s NHL post-season hub-bubble. Kailer Yamamoto and Patrick Russell also scored for Edmonton while Elias Lindholm replied for Calgary. It was the lone exhibition game for the two teams prior to the

NHL hockey returns today after a months-long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Montreal Canadiens are in Toronto to take on the Maple Leafs and the Edmonton Oilers meet the Calgary Flames at Rogers Place as part of today’s three-game exhibition schedule that kicks off Phase 4 of the league’s return-to-play plan. The Pittsburgh

Nearly five months after the coronavirus brought play to a halt, the NHL is ready to stage its return in Edmonton and Toronto. Here’s everything you should know to refamiliarize yourself with hockey: Will this work? That’s the prevailing, lingering question that looms over everything. The bottom line: the NHL is attempting to play games in

Normally the splashy visuals, out-of-the-box camera angles and next-level razzle-dazzle are saved for hockey’s showcase events. Not so in the COVID-19 pandemic era. Sportsnet enters fresh territory for the resumption of NHL broadcasts this week as the network transitions to a more unusual televised product befitting these memorable times. Get ready for “augmented audio.” Swaths

Almost 800 players and dozens more team staff have embarked on the completion of a 2019-20 season suspended on March 12 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A best-of-five qualifying round starts Saturday at Edmonton’s Rogers Place and Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena. Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York hotel, pictured on July 24, will be closed off from the

NEW YORK—The NHL is reporting that no player tested positive for COVID-19 over the final week of training camps. The league said in a release Monday that 4,256 tests were administered to more than 800 players during the seven-day period from July 18-25. The NHL had announced two positive cases from July 13, when Phase

The NHL is reporting that no player tested positive for COVID-19 over the final week of training camps. The league said in a release Monday that 4,256 tests were administered to more than 800 players during the seven-day period from July 18-25. The NHL had announced two positive cases from July 13, when Phase 3

This notion that the Stanley Cup playoffs will be a greater challenge this year than ever before is nonsense. Promotional nonsense spewed out by the NHL, which is desperate to attract eyeballs starting next weekend by making it seem as though we are about to witness the most frantic, intense competition in league history. The

NHL players have been eager to find out what life will be like inside the bubble. They got a first taste Sunday. The 24 teams — each with a 52-person travelling party — set to participate in the league’s restart entered the secure zones in two Canadian cities ahead of the resumption the pandemic-halted 2019-20 season.

Sorry, Drew Doughty. It’s difficult to find anyone — from Hockey Hall of Fame goalie Ken Dryden to French-born Avalanche forward Pierre Edouard Bellemare — supporting Doughty’s assertion that these expanded NHL playoffs won’t produce, as the Los Angeles Kings defenceman put it in April, “a real” Stanley Cup winner. “I could not agree less,”

Eddie Shack, one of the NHL’s most colourful players on and off the ice, has died. He was 83. The Toronto Maple Leafs announced the news in a tweet Sunday morning. The Maple Leafs are deeply saddened by the passing of Eddie Shack.<br><br>A three-time all star and four-time Stanley Cup champion, Eddie entertained Leafs fans