Despite having lost four in a row, the Ottawa Senators still feel pretty good about their game. The Senators (16-21-5) have been outscored 20-11 over this four-game skid and Saturday night saw them take a 5-3 loss to the high-scoring Tampa Bay Lightning (23-13-4). “I thought we played really well,” said Ottawa coach D.J. Smith.
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BOSTON—Edmonton goalie Mike Smith took a deep sigh when asked how it felt to finally get a victory. The Oilers had a little bit of help from the Boston Bruins, too. Darnell Nurse and Gaetan Haas each had a second-period goal off poor Boston plays, Connor McDavid added an insurance score in the third after
Ivan Morozov’s goal at 3:24 of overtime lifted Russia to a 5-4 semifinal win over Sweden at the world junior hockey championship on Saturday and a berth in the gold-medal game for the first time in four years. Yegor Sokolov scored at 8:35 of the third period to force overtime after the Russians blew leads of
NEW YORK—Dallas Stars forward Corey Perry was suspended for five games without pay by the NHL on Friday for elbowing Nashville Predators defenceman Ryan Ellis in the Winter Classic. Perry received a major penalty and game misconduct for elbowing early in the outdoor game Wednesday at the Cotton Bowl. The suspension will cost Perry $40,323
OSTRAVA, CZECH REPUBLIC—Joe Veleno knows he’ll never truly get over that loss. The same goes for Barrett Hayton. Canada was leading Finland 1-0 with under a minute to go in the quarterfinals of last year’s world junior hockey championship in Vancouver before a crowd ready to explode. Moments later, disaster struck. The Finns tied it
Dallas Stars forward Corey Perry was suspended for five games without pay by the NHL on Friday for elbowing Nashville Predators defenceman Ryan Ellis in the Winter Classic. Perry received a major penalty and game misconduct for elbowing early in the outdoor game Wednesday at the Cotton Bowl. The suspension will cost Perry $40,323 US.
The Montreal Canadiens agreed to terms on a one-year contract with free-agent forward Ilya Kovalchuk on Friday. The two-way deal is worth $700,000 US at the NHL level and $70,000 in the AHL. Kovalchuk, 36, had nine points (3-6) and 12 penalty minutes over 17 games this season with the Los Angeles Kings, who placed
DALLAS—There was the 1-7-1 start for the Dallas Stars, who had such high expectations after an impressive playoff run last season. When they started consistently winning again, there was the shocking coaching change unrelated to anything on the ice. Dallas then opened 2020 with another comeback victory on New Year’s Day, outdoors at Cotton Bowl
OTTAWA—Michael Frolik was sent by the Calgary Flames to the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday as the final move in a series of trades that also involved the Montreal Canadiens and Ottawa Senators. Buffalo had traded veteran defenceman Marco Scandella to Montreal earlier in the day and received a 2020 fourth-round pick — originally belonging to
Johnny Gaudreau opened scoring and then set up the winner midway through the second as the Calgary Flames snapped a five-game losing skid at home with a 4-3 victory over the New York Rangers. Less than three minutes after New York had tied it 3-3, Sean Monahan gave the Flames their third lead of the
DALLAS—Ryan Clare chewed on a turkey leg as he milled about the Texas state fairgrounds hours before another major sporting event inside historic Cotton Bowl Stadium. No, this wasn’t the Texas-Oklahoma football game, always held in October during the fair. Clare has never been to the annual Red River rivalry, but the Dallas resident has
Canada’s quest for gold remains on track at the world junior hockey championship. Alexis Lafreniere scored and added an assist in his return from injury as part of a resounding 6-1 victory over Slovakia in the quarter-finals on Thursday. Barrett Hayton added two goals and an assist for the Canadians, Connor McMichael, Jacob Bernard-Docker and
BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA—Jenna Buglioni scored the game-winning goal and added an assist as Canada beat Finland 4-1 on Wednesday in the semifinals of the under-18 women’s world hockey championship. Canada will go for gold for the second straight year against the United States on Thursday. Marianne Picard and Lindsay Bochna also scored as Canada built a
Cole Caufield is getting used to the attention. Since being selected 15th overall by the Montreal Canadiens at last June’s NHL draft, the diminutive winger has been visited by numerous reporters, seen his mentions on social media balloon, and is often one of the top trending names on the website hockeydb.com. People want to know
DALLAS—Welcome to a Texas-sized NHL Winter Classic. The annual showcase is going to be one big outdoor game when the Dallas Stars host the Nashville Predators at the historic Cotton Bowl Stadium on Wednesday — even without “Big Tex” booming out the customary “Howdy, folks!” that visitors to the State Fair of Texas hear each
By the time she was eight-and-a-half years old, Diane Bibaud knew what she wanted to do when she grew up: play the organ at Montreal Canadiens games. So back in 1985, when she heard the organist at the old Forum wasn’t working out, she knocked on the office door of Serge Savard, the team’s general manager
TRINEC, CZECH REPUBLIC—Sweden clinched first in Group A at the world junior hockey championship with its 52nd consecutive win in preliminary-round play, 6-2 over Slovakia on Tuesday. Swedish defenceman Rasmus Sandin, the Maple Leafs’ first-round draft pick in 2018, left in the third period after a slash to the arm and was taken for X-rays.
Patrick Kane had two goals and two assists on Tuesday night as the Chicago Blackhawks jumped out to a 4-0 lead then persevered a furious late Calgary rally for a 5-3 victory over the Flames. After helping set up goals by Olli Maatta at 4:14 and Alex Debrincat at 5:35, Kane made it 3-0 at