When the NHL returns from its bye weeks and all-star break, there will be just over 30 games left for each team. The Vancouver Canucks, Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames are the only Canadian clubs currently in a playoff spot, while the Maple Leafs and Winnipeg Jets sit just below the cut line. The Montreal
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Maple Leafs centre Auston Matthews has been playing with a bum wrist. Judging by his offensive output, it’s hard to tell. The 22-year-old is tied for second in the NHL with 34 goals this season to match his jersey number, with eight coming in his last nine games. Matthews worked to rehab the injury during
Rick Tocchet is going to keep his distance. Quinn Hughes, meanwhile, admits it would be a lie to say he isn’t interested to see how things play out. Even though Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl missed Thursday’s media session ahead of the NHL’s all-star weekend, the Edmonton Oilers’ renewed rivalry with the Calgary Flames —
SAN JOSE, CALIF.—San Jose Sharks owner Hasso Plattner is giving general manager Doug Wilson his backing, saying in a news release Thursday he is supportive of Wilson’s plan to return the struggling team back to the NHL playoffs next season. The Sharks have fallen well short of expectations this year. With a 21-25-4 record, they
CHERRY BROOK, N.S.—Canada Post unveiled a commemorative stamp Thursday that pays tribute to an all-Black hockey league that once thrived in the Maritimes. The stamp, unveiled at the Black Cultural Centre in Cherry Brook, N.S., tells the story of the Colored Hockey League, which saw teams competing for the Colored Hockey Championship between 1895 and
Last season the Vancouver Canucks finished nine points short of the 90 needed to advance to the playoffs in the NHL’s Western Conference. In the three prior seasons the playoff bar in the West hovered around 95 points. In those years Vancouver missed the mark by 22, 25 and 22 points. Heading into the NHL all-star
PHILADELPHIA—Chris Greenwell took his boy Brandon to the Wells Fargo Center one night in November to meet the most famous person on the Philadelphia Flyers payroll: Gritty. The Flyers had invited Greenwell and his 13-year-old son to get a photo and some face time with the fuzzy, googly-eyed mascot, all part of an exclusive event
Oliver Bjorkstrand scored twice, Elvis Merzlikins stopped 27 shots, and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Winnipeg Jets 4-3 on Wednesday night for their sixth straight win. Bjorkstand broke the tie with a top-shelf shot over the shoulder of Winnipeg goalie Laurent Brossoit with 5:38 left in the game. Bjorkstrand had his second two-goal game
The upper-body injury that kept the New York Rangers’ Artemi Panarin out of Tuesday’s game against the New York Islanders will also keep him out of Saturday’s NHL all-star game (CBC, 8 p.m. ET). Panarin’s teammate Chris Kreider now will replace him on the Metropolitan Division roster. It would have been the first all-star game
The Florida Panthers got Joel Quenneville a win in his return to Chicago, using a hat trick by Frank Vatrano to beat the Blackhawks 4-3 on Tuesday night for their sixth consecutive victory. The 61-year-old Quenneville coached Chicago to three Stanley Cup championships and nine playoff appearances in 10-plus years before he was fired when
Akim Aliu will reportedly resume his professional hockey career with HC Litvinov of the Czech Extraliga. According to Sports Illustrated, the 30-year-old former NHL forward will join his new team Wednesday and play the rest of the season, starting with Friday’s game. Aliu, drafted 56th overall by the Chicago Blackhawks in 2007, went public in
CHICAGO—Patrick Kane’s 1,000th career point created one big party for the Chicago Blackhawks. Everyone was invited. Kane reached 1,000 when he picked up an assist on Brandon Saad’s third-period goal, and the Blackhawks beat the Winnipeg Jets 5-2 on Sunday night for their season-high fifth straight win. Kane became the 90th player in NHL history
Former NHL player Akim Aliu, whose description of past alleged racist behaviour by Bill Peters led to the former NHL coach resigning from the Calgary Flames, has signed a contract for the rest of the 2019-20 season with HC Litvinov of the Czech Extraliga. The Czech team confirmed the move on its website Tuesday. Aliu,
Sports·Video Retired broadcaster Bob Cole returned to Hockey Night in Canada to provide an update on the blizzard that enveloped his home province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Social Sharing Posted: Jan 18, 2020 8:43 PM ET | Last Updated: January 19 Retired broadcaster Bob Cole returned to Hockey Night in Canada to provide an update
Jason Spezza’s Maple Leafs teammates call him Vintage for a reason. He’s old school. Likes they way things were. At 36, he still takes the morning skate, even if it’s optional and the guys he’s skating with are on the bubble of playing or sitting, or working their way back from injury. So when it
Somehow, over the past nine days, Zack Kassian pulled off the impossible by stealing the bulk of hockey headlines in Edmonton from star teammates Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. Such is life for the newest protagonist — or villain, depending on what team you cheer for — in the revived Battle of Alberta. But Kassian
Patrick Kane’s 1,000th career point created one big party for the Chicago Blackhawks. Everyone was invited. Kane reached 1,000 when he picked up an assist on Brandon Saad’s third-period goal, and the Blackhawks beat the Winnipeg Jets 5-2 for their season-high fifth straight win. Kane became the 90th player in NHL history to reach the
Akim Aliu didn’t know when and how he would share his story of racial abuse at the hands of his coach before he took to Twitter in late November 2019 to write a series of tweets that would upend the hockey world. During the first intermission of Hockey Night in Canada‘s primetime game on Saturday, Sportsnet