9:38 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles defenseman Drew Doughty will not be in the Kings’ lineup against Tampa Bay, ending the longest consecutive games played streak in franchise history. Coach Todd McLellan said Doughty will not play Wednesday night against the Lightning because of an undisclosed injury. Doughty, who has not
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2:57 PM ET The San Jose Sharks‘ disappointing season just took another hit with news that forward Tomas Hertl is done for the season after suffering a knee injury Wednesday. The team announced that he suffered a torn ACL and MCL. Hertl got a shot off with 13:43 left in the first period and then
10:17 PM ET The Los Angeles Kings walked into Staples Center on Wednesday night donning Kobe Bryant Lakers jerseys prior to their game versus the Tampa Bay Lightning. Some Kings wore gold jerseys, other wore the alternate white ones, with a sizable mix of Nos. 8 and 24 on the back. It was the Kings’
12:20 PM ET Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Sabres starting goalie Linus Ullmark will miss three to four weeks with an injury to his right leg. The team issued the update without revealing the nature of the injury Wednesday, a day after Ullmark was hurt in a 5-2 loss to Ottawa. Ullmark was untouched
5:59 PM ET Alexis Lafreniere, expected to be the No. 1 overall pick in June’s NHL draft, was suspended for three games Tuesday by the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Lafreniere, 18, who plays forward for Rimouski Oceanic, delivered a head shot on Quebec Remparts forward Thomas Caron six seconds into the third period of
10:57 AM ET The Pittsburgh Penguins have reached a five-year contract extension with defenseman Marcus Pettersson, the team announced Tuesday. The extension begins next season and has an average annual value of $4 million. The 23-year-old has tallied three goals and 31 assists since he was acquired from the Anaheim Ducks in December 2018. This
5:29 PM ET Seldom-used forward Travis Boyd, in the lineup because Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin had to serve a one-game suspension, scored just his third goal of the season as Washington outlasted the Canadiens 4-2 in Montreal Monday night. The win was Washington’s fourth straight, and padded the Capitals’ lead atop the NHL standings to
12:23 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Blue Jackets signed forward Eric Robinson to a two-year contract extension on Monday. The 24-year-old Robinson was pressed into action at the NHL level this season because of a rash of injuries to regulars. He has responded with five goals, four assists and a +10 plus/minus
3:57 PM ET ST. LOUIS — Wayne Gretzky called women’s hockey players involvement in the NHL All Star game “a big step forward” in growing the sport — and he hopes the league will continue to stay committed to the women’s game. “Exposure is everything,” Gretzky told ESPN on Friday, ahead of the inaugural 3-on-3
11:00 AM ET ST. LOUIS — The NHL All Stars descended upon St. Louis for the past three days, and what a weekend it was. Players perched atop the 100-level launched pucks over the crowd. Women’s hockey players dazzled. Blues legends … appeared. Connor McDavid was dethroned. Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong spewed out
12:19 AM ET ST. LOUIS — Boston Bruins winger David Pastrnak was surprised he won the NHL All-Star Game Most Valuable Player award, and the new Honda CRV that comes with it, because it came on a losing effort. “Definitely surprised. I would expect the winner should win MVP, you know?” said Pastrnak, who had
9:08 PM ET ST. LOUIS — It might be a work in progress when it arrives, but the NHL will have puck and player tracking in every arena beginning next season. During his All-Star Game news conference, commissioner Gary Bettman said that puck and player tracking will be “up and running in the arenas of
1:04 AM ET ST. LOUIS — Patrick Kane said the newest NHL All-Star skills competition, which featured players shooting pucks over the heads of fans at targets placed on the ice below, was “a little gimmicky,” even as he enjoyed winning the inaugural Shooting Stars challenge. “I’m kind of a fan of the original drills
11:25 AM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. — A former Minnesota high school hockey player paralyzed during a game in 2011 has been hired by an NHL team. Jack Jablonski tweeted Thursday that he has a job as a content coordinator with the Los Angeles Kings working in podcasting, radio and TV. I
10:04 PM ET ST. LOUIS — Even when he skips the event, Alex Ovechkin is the talk of the NHL All-Star Game. Ovechkin closed out the first half of the season with back-to-back hat tricks and eight goals in three games. He sits at 692 career goals, putting him just eight away from becoming the
12:35 PM ET I don’t want to say there’s a slight power imbalance in the NHL this season, but it might be time to contract the entire Western Conference for its abject inferiority. OK, that’s not entirely fair. Let’s relocate the St. Louis Blues and Colorado Avalanche to the superior conference, and then contract the
7:23 PM ET ESPN News Services Toronto Maple Leafs forward Auston Matthews (wrist) won’t play in this weekend’s NHL All-Star Game but he will attend the event in St. Louis, the team announced on Wednesday. Matthews, 22, is day-to-day while he gets treatment for an ongoing wrist issue, Toronto said. 2 Related Matthews is tied
8:50 PM ET New York forward Artemi Panarin, the Rangers’ leading scorer and potentially the biggest offseason addition of any team in the NHL, missed Tuesday’s 4-0 loss to the New York Islanders because of an upper-body injury. Panarin, signed by the Rangers in July after he led the Columbus Blue Jackets to the playoffs,