Alex Ovechkin began the night being celebrated for what he’s best at. He ended it doing something much more rare. Ovechkin scored his 701st goal minutes after being honoured for 700 and added the shootout winner to help the Washington Capitals beat the Winnipeg Jets 4-3 Tuesday for their second consecutive victory. It was just
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EDMONTON—The Edmonton Oilers acquired winger Andreas Athanasiou and minor-leaguer Ryan Kuffner from the Detroit Red Wings for centre Sam Gagner and two second-round draft picks ahead of Monday’s NHL trade deadline. The 25-year-old Athanasiou has 10 goals and 24 points in 46 games this season, and is a league-worst minus-45. The move reunites Athanasiou with
A measly three points separate the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames in the wild NHL Pacific Division playoff race. But massive is the difference in the collective mood among the respective fan bases, especially after Monday’s trade deadline. In Edmonton, the long-suffering supporters are excited — bordering on elated — about the playoff prospects of
RALEIGH, N.C.—Carolina defenceman Brett Pesce and goaltenders James Reimer and Petr Mrazek are all dealing with “longer term” injuries suffered in a weekend win at Toronto, Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said Monday. Brind’Amour said it was unclear exactly how much time the players will miss. Reimer left with a lower-body injury, while Brind’Amour said Mrazek
Emil Bemstrom scored 4:35 into overtime, and the Columbus Blue Jackets snapped an eight-game losing streak with a 4-3 win over the Ottawa Senators on Monday. Bemstrom knocked home a rebound for his seventh of the season. Nick Foligno scored twice for the Blue Jackets, and Stefan Matteau tied it with his second of the
The Ottawa Senators wasted little time in kicking off the NHL’s trade deadline day by dealing forwards Vladislav Namestnikov and Jean-Gabriel Pageau. The Carolina Panthers jumped into the mix Monday by acquiring centre Vincent Trocheck from the Florida Panthers on a busy morning in advance of the mid-afternoon deadline. Namestnikov joins his third team this
With his team out of the playoff picture, Ottawa Senators general manager Pierre Dorion picked up a lottery-protected, first-round draft pick from the New York Islanders for Jean-Gabriel Pageau ahead of Monday’s 3 p.m. ET trade deadline. The conditional pick would slide to 2021 if it falls in the top 3 of this year’s June draft in
CENTRE ROBERT-GUERTIN, GATINEAU — Mathieu Bizier scored two goals including the game-winner in leading the Gatineau Olympiques to a 7-6 overtime victory over the Shawinigan Cataractes. Kieran Craig added two goals and an assist for the Olympiques. Maxim Trépanier had two goals and an assist for Shawinigan. The Olympiques led 3-0 at the end of
It’s rare that a regular season NHL game in mid February is guaranteed to be remembered until the end of time, but Saturday’s meeting between the Toronto Maple Leafs and visiting Carolina Hurricanes is most definitely one for the history books. That’s because the former Zamboni driver for the Maple Leafs’ AHL team played net for the Hurricanes. And he won.
Alex Ovechkin is making the seemingly impossible appear to be not so far-fetched after all. Wayne Gretzky’s 894 career goals has, for decades, loomed as one of hockey’s most untouchable records. The “Great One” set the bar so high it appeared out of reach for even the NHL’s best scorers. Ovechkin, on Saturday, became the
David Ayres was sitting by himself in the bowels of Scotiabank Arena when he got word Hurricanes goalie James Reimer had suffered an injury. The on-call emergency netminder for Saturday’s game in Toronto, Ayers got half-dressed into his gear on the off chance something might happen to Carolina’s second option, Petr Mrazek. Midway through the
PHILADELPHIA—Scott Laughton scored two goals Saturday to lead the streaking Philadelphia Flyers to a 4-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets. Sean Couturier and Tyler Pitlick also scored and Justin Braun had three assists for the Flyers, who won their third straight and fourth of five to improve to 21-5-4 at home. Philadelphia remained in third
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CENTRE GERVAIS AUTO, SHAWINIGAN — Gabriel Denis had a goal and an assist leading the Shawinigan Cataractes to a 5-3 victory over the Drummondville Voltigeurs in QMJHL action. Xavier Cormier also had a goal and an assist for the Cataractes. Jacob Dion had two points for Drummondville. The Cataractes led 1-0 at the end of
Bernie Saunders, one of the NHL’s first black players, never thought he would find himself coaching youth hockey. He vowed his sons would never play, but his eldest, Jonathan, had other plans. From the time he was in the crib, Jonathan was obsessed with the sport, and so he followed in his father’s footsteps. They
A veteran of nearly 130 career fights, Kyle Clifford can see a day when dropping the gloves in the NHL has serious repercussions beyond a five-minute penalty. Just not any time soon. “It’d be a while before you see that,” said the bruising Leafs winger. “Eventually, I’m sure they’ll go that way.” It could happen
The Winnipeg Jets are bringing centre Cody Eakin home. The Jets acquired the Winnipeg-born centre from the Vegas Golden Knights on Friday for a conditional fourth-round pick in 2021. If the Jets qualify for the playoffs this year or re-sign Eakin to a new contract by July 5, the Jets will instead transfer their 2021
CENTRE HENRY-LEONARD, BAIE-COMEAU — Théo Rochette netted a hat trick leading the Québec Remparts to a 4-2 victory over the Baie-Comeau Drakkar. Pierrick Dubé added four assists for the Remparts. Lucas Fitzpatrick made 30 saves for the Drakkar. After a scoreless first period, the Drakkar took a 2-1 lead in the second after goals from