VANCOUVER – The Vancouver Canucks expect to make changes this summer, says general manager Patrik Allvin. And he’s tasked players with figuring out how they can help improve the team going forward. “I’m excited by the response from the players,“ Allvin said in a season-ending press conference Monday. ”But I’m sure we’ve got to continue
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This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports’ daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what’s happening in sports by subscribing here. It’s been 30 years since a Canadian-based team won the Stanley Cup. But, with two of them finishing in the top six of the NHL’s overall standings, there’s a reasonable
The Edmonton Oilers, who finished the regular season with nine consecutive wins, are one of three Canadian teams looking to get their names engraved on the Stanley Cup when the NHL playoffs commence Monday night in four North American cities. The Oilers, who are looking to become the first Canadian team since the 1993 Montreal
Vancouver Canucks winger Tanner Pearson says he’s still working his way back to health nearly six months after breaking his hand in a game. “I’m just trying to get my hand back,” he told reporters at a season-ending press conference Saturday. “I’m just trying to be a dad and be with my kids and be
EDMONTON – After their longest playoff run in 16 years in 2022, the Edmonton Oilers have the weapons to go further. While there’s currently no better one-two punch on the hockey planet than Oilers captain Connor McDavid and forward Leon Draisaitl, Edmonton’s supporting cast is also deeper and more seasoned heading into the 2023 post-season.
Whiteout parties will be back in Winnipeg starting next weekend, as the Jets’ first-round playoff series against the Vegas Golden Knights comes to Winnipeg for games 3 and 4. The Jets announced the full schedule for the series on Friday night, after the return of the downtown whiteout parties was announced earlier in the day.
WINNIPEG – Connor Hellebuyck doesn’t think the Winnipeg Jets feel like underdogs as they head into the first round of the NHL playoffs against the Vegas Golden Knights. The Jets battled to grab the final wild-card berth in the Western Conference and travel to play the top-seeded Golden Knights in Game 1 of the best-of-seven
The Colorado Avalanche are peaking at the right time, giving the defending Stanley Cup champions a shot to repeat. “Once you taste it once, it’s something you want again,” Avs defenceman Bowen Byram said. It certainly won’t be easy to make it through the talented and tough teams in the Western Conference playoffs to reach
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Until now, Jack Eichel has only watched the NHL playoffs, which has given him some idea of the intensity that comes once the 16-team tournament begins. But the eight-year veteran who has played in 476 regular-season games won’t really know what it will feel like until he skates onto the T-Mobile
After winning an NHL-record 65 games and steamrolling opponents since October, the Boston Bruins look like the clear favourite to come out of the East and win the Stanley Cup. The reality? “Everyone’s 0-0,” veteran forward Charlie Coyle said. The climb to try to win the franchise’s first championship in more than a decade begins
It’s not the fault of either Brian Burke or Ron Hextall that Sidney Crosby was born in 1987 and already has 18 NHL seasons under his belt. Nature, as they say, is undefeated, and Sid the Kid is getting old. He’s still pretty great — and just finished putting up a 93-point season — but
The Pittsburgh Penguins asked Ron Hextall and Brian Burke to thread an impossibly thin needle when they were hired in February 2021. Hextall, the general manager, and Burke, the director of hockey operations, were asked to find a way to prop open the championship window for stars Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang without
BRAMPTON, Ont. – After a slow start, Finland found its speed and offence to flatten Germany 8-2 on Friday at the women’s world hockey championship at the CCA Centre. With the victory, Finland advances to the tournament’s fifth-place game, where it will face Japan or Sweden who are playing in Friday’s later game. Defending champion
Peter Laviolette won’t be back as coach of the Washington Capitals, who now have a big decision to make after missing the playoffs for the first time in nearly a decade. The Capitals parted ways with Laviolette on Friday, less than 24 hours after their season ended, a decision general manager Brian MacLellan described as
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — When the Minnesota Wild brought back Marc-Andre Fleury and traded Cam Talbot for Filip Gustavsson last summer, their outlook in the net seemed obvious. Fleury was the three-time Stanley Cup winner with 19 seasons in the NHL who would be the primary goalie. Gustavsson was the 24-year-old with upside and
The Edmonton Oilers already look to be in playoff form. Mattias Janmark scored a pair of goals, Leon Draisaitl had a goal and two assists and the Oilers equaled a franchise record-tying ninth straight win with a 5-2 victory over the visiting San Jose Sharks in their regular season finale on Thursday. “We feel good
DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Avalanche will have to try to defend their Stanley Cup championship without captain Gabriel Landeskog. The team announced Thursday Landeskog will not take part in the playoffs because of a knee injury that caused him to miss the entire regular season. Landeskog underwent his second knee surgery of 2022 in
NHL The Toronto Maple Leafs signed goaltender Samuel Richard to an amateur tryout Thursday. Richard, who played with the U Sports champion University of New Brunswick Reds this season, will serve as backup to starting goaltender Joseph Woll on Thursday against the New York Rangers. Social Sharing Leafs signed goaltender Samuel Richard to an amateur
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