The latest sports news: NHL opts to postpone all games on Dec. 27 Leafs’ William Nylander enters protocol Everton-Burnley postponed The NHL is extending its postponement of games as part of its pandemic response, announcing Friday that play has been paused through Dec. 27. On Monday, the league, working with the National Hockey League Players’ Association, decided to pause all
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, Ken Holland spoke about the Edmonton Oilers’ depleted roster and the status of goaltender Mike Smith. Meanwhile, the Maple Leafs continue to get hit hard by the COVID protocols. Zach Senyshyn of the Boston Bruins has asked for a trade and four NHL scouts examined what the New York Rangers
While this time of year is filled with family gatherings and holiday cheer, for hockey fans who love to focus on the future of the game, the best present will be opened on Dec. 26. The IIHF World Junior Championship always provides a great look at the potential top stars of tomorrow. The rosters will
8:52 PM ET The International Ice Hockey Federation is canceling all of its January events because of the rise in COVID-19 cases and could announce the move as soon as Friday, sources told ESPN on Thursday night. The cancellations include the 2022 U18 Women’s World Championships in Sweden, making it the second straight year the
📝 by Mark Newman | AHL On The Beat In a quarter of a century of Griffins hockey, fewer than three dozen players have spent at least parts of five seasons in Grand Rapids. If you reduce the ranks to those who have logged five seasons of at least 20 games and who came to
EDMONTON – It didn’t have the atmosphere of Canada-Russia classics of days past. And it certainly wasn’t as competitive as we’d expect when Canada and Russia face each other on the ice. Canada scored four first-period goals in front of a sparse gathering of fans at Rogers Place on Thursday, en route to a 6-4
Mason McTavish and Kent Johnson showed signs of becoming Canada’s go-to combination at the upcoming World Junior Championships. But, only a few hundred fans were in the stands at Edmonton’s Rogers Place to see the magic start to happen between the two NHL first-round draft picks. Canada scored four times in the first period en
The New York Islanders 2021-22 season has already been a long one for the players, coaches, and fans alike. The tough road trip to start the season, the COVID-19 outbreak within the roster that resulted in an 11-game losing streak, and the postponed games. To top it all off, once the Islanders started to gain
It was inevitable—or seemingly so for seasoned skeptics. The NHL has paused their season amid the spread of the Omicron variant. An optimist might consider it an extended holiday break. The Washington Capitals and Philadelphia Flyers were two of six teams scheduled to skate one last time on Tuesday night before the pause. Yet, in
9:00 AM ET It’s hard to think about leveling up at a time when hockey is sinking into an abyss of positive tests, postponed games and a best-on-best Olympic tournament that will exist only in our daydreams and video game simulations. So let’s remember the good times, shall we? Here are 10 players and teams
From the moment he was named as head coach of the United States’ men’s Olympic hockey team in late July to the day before the NHL formally pulled out of the 2022 Games on Tuesday, Mike Sullivan spoke with reverence of the opportunity afforded him. Over the past five months, he leaned on one word
EDMONTON Connor McDavid knows all too well what lies ahead for Connor Bedard. While there are eight years between them, Bedard is following the path McDavid laid out. Both were granted exceptional status by their leagues to play major junior hockey at age 15, and both were pegged at a young age to be the
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. The world juniors, thankfully, are here Yesterday’s announcement that NHL players will not compete in the 2022 Winter Olympics was a real lump of coal. Luckily, the world junior championship is here
With the NHL postponing games from today through Dec. 26 due to rising COVID cases, the New Jersey Devils will have about a week off before returning to the ice on Dec. 27 to take on the St. Louis Blues in St. Louis. But before then, Devils fans have a bit to look forward to at the
Edmonton Oilers‘ commentator and host of Oilers Now, Bob Stauffer, has suggested another solution the team can look at in the coming weeks to address the forward group. Moving forward. Could see the @EdmontonOilers deploy an internal solution for 3C and then add 2 forwards by the trade deadline. One of those additions will be
6:53 AM ET Associated Press The World Junior Championship is a holiday hockey tradition like no other. And it should look a little different this year. Due to COVID-19 concerns, the 2021 tournament was moved to Edmonton, Alberta, and played in “bubble” conditions with no fans allowed to watch the proceedings. This year, Edmonton and
📝 by Patrick Williams A marriage between the Columbus Blue Jackets and Cleveland Monsters, everyone agreed, had long seemed destined to happen. Success definitely came quickly for the Blue Jackets in their new American Hockey League home, too, with a Calder Cup championship to show for the organizations’ first season together in 2015-16. But keeping
No Connor McDavid, no Steven Stamkos, no Mitch Marner. There’s disappointment for players and fans in the wake of Tuesday’s news that the NHL and the NHLPA agreed to not send league players to the Beijing Olympics in February. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be some familiar faces donning the Canadian jersey, or that