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The Arizona Coyotes continue to impress in the early stages of the season. Derek Stepan scored in overtime as the Coyotes came away with a 3-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Monday, improving to 8-2-0 in their past 10 games. Stepan took a feed from Nick Schmaltz and picked the corner 2:01 into the

Looking back, Ethan Bear figures his hockey future rested on two questions and one life-changing decision. “It was basically, did I want to be an NHL player?” the Edmonton Oilers defenceman says. “Or did I want to be an AHL player?” The decision came in the middle of an injury-plagued season with the Bakersfield Comets

Jakub Vrana got his first career hat trick and the Washington Capitals beat the Calgary Flames 4-2 Sunday night. Lars Eller added a power-play goal, and Evgeny Kuznetsov and Tom Wilson each had two assists for the Capitals, who have won eight of nine and lead the NHL with 25 points. Ilya Samsonov stoped 25

Kyle Connor scored in overtime to lift the Winnipeg Jets to a 4-3 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday night. It was Connor’s seventh career goal in seven games against Vegas. The Jets won their second straight game on back-to-back nights, after surviving San Jose’s 53 shots Friday during a 3-2 victory. Combining

Denis Gurianov scored two goals, one on a penalty shot, and Ben Bishop made 35 saves to lead the Dallas Stars past the Montreal Canadiens 4-1 on Saturday night. As Gurianov skated in on Canadiens goalie Carey Price on a breakaway, Nick Suzuki was called for slashing at 18:49 of the second period. After the

Eddie Olczyk was ready to give up. The one-time Maple Leaf, now a broadcaster, was on his second round of chemotherapy for stage 3 colon cancer, and the effects were so severe that he told his wife, Diana, he couldn’t do it anymore. Diana told her husband to fight for her, their kids and everyone

Ryan Getzlaf scored a breakaway goal 2:30 into overtime, and John Gibson made 39 saves in the Anaheim Ducks’ 2-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Friday night. Jakob Silfverberg scored a short-handed goal in the first period for the Ducks, who improved to 6-1-0 at Honda Center with their second straight victory to open

Everything about Dustin Byfuglien has always been unusual. He was a forward on the Stanley Cup champions who switched and became a standout defenceman. Impossibly big, impossibly fast, impossibly versatile. A player capable of spectacular manoeuvres, bodychecks and mistakes. Try to come up with a precise comparison in terms of another star in NHL history.

Connor Hellebuyck made 51 saves to hold off a furious San Jose attack and Nikolaj Ehlers scored the tie-breaking goal with 1:24 left to send the Winnipeg Jets to a 3-2 victory over the slumping Sharks on Friday night. Blake Wheeler and Gabriel Bourque also scored for the Jets, but Hellebuyck was the biggest star

Matthew Tkachuk tied the game in the final minute of regulation and scored the winning goal with just over a second left in overtime on a nifty shot between his legs, leading the Calgary Flames to a 6-5 win over the Nashville Predators on Thursday night. Calgary rallied from a three-goal deficit and ended Nashville’s

Hockey on a Saturday night is woven into Canada’s cultural fabric. Families gather in front of televisions, friends meet at bars, and fans make arena pilgrimages to cheer on their favourite teams. But an NHL scheduling quirk this weekend will provide something rare — all seven Canadian franchises are in action Saturday, and not one

When Olivia Howe got into hockey two decades ago, she didn’t imagine she’d still be around the game in 2019. Growing up playing for a girls’ team in an all-boys’ league in Saskatchewan, all she wanted was to earn a scholarship for school to prepare herself for when the playing days were over. But opportunities

Max Domi scored 27 seconds into overtime and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Vegas Golden Knights 5-4 on Thursday night. Montreal’s Brendan Gallagher scored his seventh of the season during a 6-on-5 sequence with 1:58 left in regulation, taking a perfect feed from the corner and beating Vegas goalie Marc-Andre Fleury between the pads to

Several factors have contributed to the Vancouver Canucks impressive start to the NHL season. The Canucks are 8-3-1 overall and 8-1-1 in their last 10 games following a 5-3 win over the Kings in Los Angeles Wednesday night. Vancouver is getting goal production from all four lines and steady goaltending from the tandem of Jacob

CALGARY—The Canadian women’s hockey team will host the United States in Moncton, N.B., Victoria and Vancouver this winter. The Rivalry Series between the two countries has been expanded from its inaugural three games in February to five in 2019-20. The series opens Dec. 14 in Hartford, Conn., before heading to Moncton on Dec. 17. The

Carey Price stopped 33 shots, Brendan Gallagher and Shea Weber scored in the opening minute of the first two periods, and the Montreal Canadiens rolled to a 4-1 win over the Arizona Coyotes on Wednesday night. Montreal arrived in the desert early for an extra day of practice and acclimation after beating Toronto 5-2 on

Not long after the St. Louis Blues raised their Stanley Cup banner and the Colorado Avalanche got rolling on a season of high expectations each team has a significant obstacle to overcome. The Blues will be without sniper Vladimir Tarasenko for five months, basically the rest of the regular season. The Avalanche — already missing

NEWSFLASH: Connor McDavid is really good at hockey.  Okay, we knew that back when he was playing midget and scouts officially gave him the middle name “Future-First-Overall-Pick.” Tuesday night, McDavid played the 300th game of his career. He picked up an assist, giving him 394 in his career so far. You would be hard-pressed to