Sidney Crosby is back. The Pittsburgh Penguins captain will be in the lineup Tuesday night when Pittsburgh faces Minnesota. Crosby hasn’t played since undergoing abdominal surgery on Nov. 14. The Penguins have thrived in spite of the extended absence of the three-time Stanley Cup winner, posting a 18-6-4 record since Nov. 9, tied for the second-best
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The Boston Bruins have lost shootouts every which way this season. Brad Marchand found a new one Monday night. The Bruins star overskated the puck at centre ice on a shootout attempt in a bizarre ending to the Philadelphia Flyers’ 6-5 victory over Boston. Travis Konecny scored in the fifth round of the shootout for
Edmonton Oilers winger Zack Kassian was suspended for two games by the NHL on Monday, two days after he ragdolled and slobberknocked a turtling Matthew Tkachuk on national TV. Kassian skated with the Oilers at Rogers Place earlier Monday, but he did not speak to the media afterwards ahead of his meeting with the league’s
NEW YORK—Alexis Lafreniere, who was named most valuable player of the 2020 world junior hockey championship after helping Canada capture a gold medal, is the top North American skater in the NHL’s mid-season draft rankings. Lafreniere, a left-wing with the Rimouski Oceanic, leads all Quebec Major Junior Hockey League skaters this season with 24 goals
Alexis Lafrenière, who was named most valuable player of the 2020 world junior hockey championship after helping Canada capture a gold medal, is the top North American skater in the NHL’s mid-season draft rankings. A left-winger with the Rimouski Oceanic, Lafrenière leads all Quebec Major Junior Hockey League skaters this season with 24 goals and
Florida’s Jonathan Huberdeau had a goal and an assist, surpassing Olli Jokinen for the franchise’s career points lead with 420, and the Panthers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 8-4 on Sunday night. Mike Hoffman scored two goals for Florida, and Aleksander Barkov and Vincent Trocheck each had a goal and two assists. Frank Vatrano, Mike
NEWARK, N.J.—Ray Shero has been fired as the New Jersey Devils’ general manager after four-plus years that saw the three-time Stanley Cup champions make the playoffs only once. Owner Josh Harris announced the change, effective immediately, less than 90 minutes before the struggling Devils were to face the Tampa Bay Lightning at the Prudential Center
Former NHL goalie Damian Rhodes admits he was far from a good puck handler in his playing days. Scoring a goal was the furthest thing from his mind. “I didn’t want one at all, I just wanted to win,” Rhodes said Friday. “I’d rather have a shutout than a goal, I can tell you that.”
Edmonton Oilers forward Zack Kassian will have a hearing Monday with the NHL’s department of player safety following his altercation with Calgary Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk during Saturday night’s game. Kassian took offence to a hit from Tkachuk in the second period of Edmonton’s 4-3 loss, throwing off his gloves and punching the Flames winger
Elias Lindholm scored his 19th and 20th goals Saturday night as the Calgary Flames led early, fell behind twice, then came back to win 4-3 over the Edmonton Oilers. The Flames’ fifth win in a row moves them into first place in the tight Pacific Division, one point up on both Arizona and Vegas. The
Jayna Hefford saw the outcry on Boxing Day. While the world’s best under-20 men were set to open the world junior hockey championship in the Czech Republic, a tweet displaying the doorbell cam-like broadcast quality of the 2020 IIHF under-18 women’s worlds in Slovakia went viral. “It was a lack of investment in the women’s
NEW YORK—His every move has been chronicled and touted on social media. And this week, the night finally came for 24-year-old Igor Shesterkin to make his much anticipated debut in goal for the New York Rangers. Henrik Lundqvist, 37, who has more wins than any other goalie as a Ranger, was on the bench, possibly
Toronto Marlies assistant coach Rob Davison, who experienced a grand mal seizeure ahead of Friday night’s American Hockey League game against the hometown Texas Stars, was discharged from hospital Saturday but will remain away from the team indefinitely. Davison was immediately transported to hospital where he was kept overnight for observation. The 39-year-old’s condition has been
The Moncton Wildcats showed this week they are serious about chasing the Memorial Cup. Director of hockey operations Ritchie Thibeau proved as much by orchestrating five separate deals, including a blockbuster for defenceman Jared McIsaac ahead of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s trade deadline, upgrading a Wildcats team currently ranked No. 6 in the
Dylan Larkin scored the only goal in the shootout to give the Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 win over the sliding Ottawa Senators on Friday night. Tyler Bertuzzi had a goal and an assist, and Larkin also scored in regulation for Detroit. Red Wings defenceman Filip Hronek had two assists. Jonathan Bernier made 29 saves and
CALGARY—Perry Pearn is out and Troy Ryan is in as head coach of the Canadian women’s hockey team in a mid-season change. Less than three months out from the women’s world hockey championship in Nova Scotia, Hockey Canada’s director of women’s national teams Gina Kingsbury says a change in leadership style was required. “Sometimes, you
Jim Little, who has held prominent roles in the offices of Canadian banks, aerospace and communications companies, is the new CEO of the Ottawa Senators. The team announced the hire in a news release on Friday. The 55-year-old most recently worked for Shaw Communications as its chief marketing and cultural officer, as well as occupying
Pekka Rinne grinned and grinned and grinned. John Hynes got his first win with Nashville and Colin Blackwell scored his first NHL goal, but the game belonged to Rinne after one historic shot. Rinne became the 12th goaltender in NHL history to score when he converted an empty-netter with 22 seconds left, punctuating the Predators’