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The Vancouver Canucks have named defenceman Quinn Hughes their 15th captain in franchise history. Hughes is the first defenceman to hold the honour for Vancouver since a three-player rotation during the 1990-91 season that included blue-liner Doug Lidster. The last full-time defenceman to don the “C” in Vancouver was Kevin McCarthy from 1979 to 1982. Hughes

The Halifax Mooseheads will retire Nathan MacKinnon’s No. 22 jersey at their home opener on Sept. 22, the team announced this week. He will be the fourth Mooseheads player to receive the honour. Jody Shelley, Jean-Sebastien Giguere and Alex Tanguay are the others. In 2013, Cole Harbour’s MacKinnon became the first Mooseheads player to be the

The Tampa Bay Lightning terminated the contract of veteran forward Josh Archibald on Saturday after the off-season acquisition told the team he was taking time off from hockey. The Lightning signed free agent Tyler Motte to replace him on a one-year, $800,000 US deal. “I was informed by Josh’s agent, and by Josh himself in

The Ottawa Senators have signed defenceman Jake Sanderson to an eight-year, $64.4-million US extension, the team announced Wednesday. Sanderson had four goals and 28 assists in 77 games as a rookie with the Senators last season. The contract, which pays him $8.05 US million annually, begins in 2024-25 and runs through 2031-32. 9️⃣ more seasons

Driving along southbound Crowchild Trail in southwest Calgary you’ll see a green exit sign for a road running adjacent to Mount Royal University. Its name is Richard Road. But how did you just pronounce that name in your head? For many, it would be Richard, like Nixon, Branson or Little. Little Richard, that is. But to some

Bill Peters has been hired as the coach of the Western Hockey League’s Lethbridge Hurricanes, the former Calgary Flames coach’s first job in North America since it emerged four years ago that he directed racial slurs at a player in the minors during the 2009-10 season. The junior team, based in Alberta, announced the hiring Wednesday,

Head coach Sheldon Keefe quickly impressed new Maple Leafs general manager Brad Treliving by being accountable for Toronto’s recent playoff failures. Keefe signed a two-year contract extension with the Maple Leafs on Wednesday, keeping him as the team’s head coach until at least 2025. Treliving said that Keefe’s leadership skills made the new deal possible.

NHL star Nicolas Hague of the Vegas Golden Knights brought the Stanley Cup, and a dose of inspiration, to the Activa Sportsplex in Kitchener Sunday following his team’s championship win. Hundreds of fans waited in lines that wound across the Sportsplex’s grounds — some for hours — to meet Hague and see the Stanley Cup

Hoisting the Stanley Cup in the centre of Sioux Valley Dakota Nation’s powwow arbour, Las Vegas Golden Knight Zach Whitecloud was greeted with roars of appreciation Wednesday. Whitecloud said he was grateful to bring the cup to some of his most important places and stepping stones in his life — his homes in Sioux Valley

Auston Matthews will be well paid to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to a Stanley Cup championship. The question for the star centre is if his four-year $53 million US extension — formally signed Wednesday — will be enough to get the team over the difficult NHL playoff hump. The deal carries an average annual

Kitchener, Ont.’s own Stanley Cup winner, Nicolas Hague, will be bringing the coveted trophy home this weekend. “Sometimes I don’t believe it,” the Vegas Golden Knights defenceman told CBC K-W’s The Morning Edition host Craig Norris. “I kind of have to sit there and be like, ‘Wow, we really did do that.'” Hague, 24, and his teammates beat Florida in the

The Edmonton Oilers have re-signed defenceman Evan Bouchard on a two-year contract worth $3.9 million US annually, the team announced Thursday. Bouchard, 23, had eight goals and 32 assists in 82 games for the Oilers last season. The six-foot-three, 195-pound blue-liner from Oakville, Ont., followed that up with four goals and 13 assists in 12 playoff

Auston Matthews has put pen to paper on a deal that is set to make him the NHL’s highest-paid player. And the Toronto Maple Leafs — and their fans — can finally exhale. The star centre signed a four-year, $53-million US extension on Wednesday that ties him to the team that selected him first overall at

An Ontario Provincial Police officer has filed a $6.3-million lawsuit against the Brantford Police Service and its board after facing charges — which were eventually dropped — related to an investigation into the theft of Wayne Gretzky memorabilia from the home of the hockey legend’s father. The claim, recently filed in the Ontario Superior Court of

Former Chicago captain Jonathan Toews, a free agent after 16 years with the NHL team, says he is stepping away from hockey to get healthy after playing in just 53 games last season. “I’d like to announce that I am not fully retiring, but I am taking time away from the game again this season,” Toews,

Rick Jeanneret, who will always be regarded as the voice of the Buffalo Sabres after a 51-year broadcasting career and the Hockey Hall of Fame’s 2012 Foster Hewitt Award recipient, died on Thursday. He was 81. The Sabres released a statement from Jeanneret’s family saying he died with his family by his side following a

11:36When “spicy” BookTok went too far It’s no secret that BookTok, the nickname for TikTok’s enthusiastic community of readers, loves a hockey romance.  But a recent crossover-gone-wrong between the online community and a real-life NHL team has left hockey and romance fans alike wondering where the line is when it comes to online discourse. For

Bobby Baun, a hard-nosed defenceman who entered hockey lore by helping the Toronto Maple Leafs to the 1964 Stanley Cup on a broken leg, has died at the age of 86. Born Sept. 9, 1936, in Lanigan, Sask., as Robert Neil Baun, he played 17 seasons in the NHL. The NHL Alumni Association announced his