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Oct 7, 2023, 01:08 PM ET Minnesota Wild forward Ryan Hartman signed a three-year, $12 million contract extension Saturday through the 2026-27 season. Hartman, 29, is entering his fifth season with the Wild. In 2022-23, he tallied 37 points (15 goals, 22 assists) in 59 games. He added 90 penalty minutes, a plus-seven rating and

Associated Press Oct 6, 2023, 04:10 PM ET CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — Spencer Knight‘s comeback story will continue in Charlotte, after the Florida Panthers loaned their young goaltender to the team’s AHL affiliate on Friday. Knight hasn’t played in a game that counts for Florida since Feb. 18. The 22-year-old stepped away from hockey for

The NHL is in a torch-passing mood as it enters the 2023-24 season. The Vegas Golden Knights are the reigning Stanley Cup champions, having earned their first title since coming into the league in 2017 as an expansion team. The Seattle Kraken defeated the 2022 champs, the Colorado Avalanche, for their first playoff series win

The Chicago Blackhawks have nearly doubled their season-ticket base thanks to the arrival of rookie phenom Connor Bedard. Bedard, 18, was the first overall pick in the 2023 draft and is one of the most-hyped prospects in years. When the Blackhawks won the draft lottery in May, the team sold $5.2 million in new season-ticket

NHL Insiders Oct 5, 2023, 07:00 AM ET We are just days away from opening night of the 2023-24 NHL season on Oct. 10, featuring a tripleheader on ESPN and ESPN+: Nashville Predators–Tampa Bay Lightning (5:30 p.m. ET), Chicago Blackhawks–Pittsburgh Penguins (8 p.m. ET) and Seattle Kraken–Vegas Golden Knights (10:30 p.m. ET), the latter of

Associated Press Oct 4, 2023, 09:43 PM ET CALGARY, Alberta — Former NHL coach Kevin Constantine was suspended indefinitely by the Western Hockey League on Wednesday as coach of the Wenatchee Wild. The major junior league said an independent investigation determined Constantine violated WHL regulations and policies by making what it called “derogatory comments of

The Edmonton Oilers are going to win the 2024 Stanley Cup. Granted, I predicted that the Oilers would win the 2023 Stanley Cup, which they very much did not. In fact, my preseason championship prognostications have become something of a curse. As is tradition, I reached out to the general manager of my Stanley Cup

Oct 3, 2023, 03:36 PM ET Forward Derek Stepan, who became the fourth player in league history to record a hat trick in his NHL debut, announced his retirement Tuesday after 13 NHL seasons with four different teams. Stepan, 33, made an immediate impact to start his NHL career, scoring three times against former Vezina

Admittedly, the concept of a “goalie tandem” is becoming increasingly archaic in the NHL. For example, the Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights used five different goalies last season and had three of them available in the playoffs. “Goalie quintet rankings” does have a nice ring to it. So in building our list for the

Oct 2, 2023, 06:01 PM ET Veteran forward Brandon Sutter, who last played in the NHL in 2021, has retired from the NHL after 13 seasons. Sutter did not play over the past two seasons while dealing with complications from COVID-19. Sutter, 34, was in camp with the Edmonton Oilers on a professional tryout (PTO).

The Anaheim Ducks signed leading scorer Trevor Zegras to a three-year deal on Monday, ending a contract stalemate a week before the season begins. The average annual salary on Zegras’ new contract id $5.75 million, sources told ESPN. Zegras, 22, led the Ducks in scoring last season with 23 goals and 65 points in 81

Associated Press Sep 29, 2023, 01:47 PM ET BRANDON, Fla. — Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper made it clear that the Lightning will be without a “luxury” with Russian goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy expected to miss the first two months of the NHL season after undergoing back surgery. But Cooper has confidence the perennial Stanley Cup

Associated Press Sep 30, 2023, 02:46 PM ET ANAHEIM, Calif. — New Anaheim Ducks forward Alex Killorn will be sidelined for four to six weeks with a broken finger, the team announced Saturday. Killorn was injured Wednesday night in an exhibition game against San Jose. He signed a four-year, $25 million deal with Anaheim in

ESPN News Services Sep 30, 2023, 11:08 PM ET Calgary Flames assistant general manager Chris Snow has died at age 42 after a lengthy public battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease. The Flames confirmed his death Saturday night. In a statement, the Flames said, “We, along with the entire hockey community, are mourning the passing of

Sep 29, 2023, 02:02 PM ET Minnesota Wild signed forwards Mats Zuccarello and Marcus Foligno to contract extensions on Friday. Zuccarello signed a two-year, $8.25 million contract extension on Friday that will keep him with the team through the 2025-26 season. Foligno followed later in the day by signing a four-year extension worth $16 million.

Greg Wyshynski, ESPNSep 29, 2023, 08:00 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. BOSTON — The Boston Bruins stood around their bench, paralyzed by defeat. It was Game 7 of their 2023 Eastern Conference first-round series against the Florida Panthers. The Bruins were the most successful regular team in NHL history, setting

Kristen Shilton, ESPN NHL reporterSep 29, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Kristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. NHL playoff hockey has one absolute, and it’s this: There are none. At least when it comes to teams populating the postseason field. Every new season inevitably produces teams putting the league on notice (we’ve

Associated Press Sep 28, 2023, 11:43 PM ET CHICAGO — Connor Bedard played in his first preseason game with the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night, and fans of the Original Six franchise were ready. So was Bedard, who had two assists in Chicago’s 2-1 overtime win over the St. Louis Blues. The 18-year-old center made