Never have players on the Canadian women’s hockey team looked forward to the rigours of pre-Olympic preparation more. Ice time wasn’t always available during the COVID-19 pandemic, let alone skating in large groups or playing a game. Olympic team alumni have said the months they lived, trained and played games in Calgary before a Winter
In the 2020-21 season, Owen Tippett showed flashes of greatness. During the playoffs, head coach Joel Quenneville trusted him to play on the second line with Jonathan Huberdeau and Sam Bennett, and it paid off tremendously. Tippet scored a goal and three assists for four points in the Florida Panthers’ six-game series loss to the
The Chicago Blackhawks are the biggest NHL offseason anomaly. It’s not often that a team acquires a Vezina Trophy winner (Marc-Andre Fleury), a two-time Stanley Cup Champion (Tyler Johnson) and a No. 1 defenseman (Seth Jones) in the span of a week. Now that the shock of the all the craziness has fizzled, it’s time
9:13 PM ET ESPN News Services OTTAWA, Ontario — The Ottawa Senators signed backup goalie Filip Gustavsson to a two-year contract on Sunday. The Senators said the first year is a two-way deal worth $750,000 in the NHL and the second is one-way with a value of $825,000. The 23-year-old Swede was 5-1-2 with a
The Ottawa Senators have re-signed goaltender Filip Gustavsson to a two-year contract. The first year of the contract is a two-way deal, and the second year is one-way. Gustavsson, 23, made his NHL debut with Ottawa in 2020-21 and posted a record of 5-1-2 over nine games with a 2.16 goals-against average and a .933
CALGARY – Linemates Natalie Spooner, Sarah Fillier and Melodie Daoust continued to be a productive trio for Canada at the women’s world hockey championship. The three women combined for four goals in the host country’s 7-0 quarterfinal win Saturday over Germany. Canada faces Switzerland in Monday’s semifinal. The medal games are Tuesday at WinSport’s Markin
Linemates Natalie Spooner, Sarah Fillier and Melodie Daoust continued to be a productive trio for Canada at the women’s world hockey championship. The three women combined for four goals in the host country’s 7-0 quarter-final win Saturday over Germany. Canada faces Switzerland in Monday’s semifinal. The medal games are Tuesday at WinSport’s Markin MacPhail Centre.
A very impressive group of players were enshrined into the Hockey Hall of Fame on his date in 1966. Aug. 27 also saw some trade action out of Motown and the birth of possibly the best undrafted player to ever skate in the National Hockey League. ’66 Class Packs a Punch The Hockey Hall of
When we last left Alex Pietrangelo, he had overcome a bumpy start to his debut season with the Vegas Golden Knights, and was rounding into the form that owner Bill Foley, president Gerard Gallant, and general manager Kelly McCrimmon had in mind when they handed him a seven-year, $61.6 million contract last summer. After recording
2:35 PM ET Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. — With his future in Buffalo uncertain, Sabres captain Jack Eichel is changing agents while in the midst of a long-standing dispute with the team over how to treat a neck injury, sources confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday. Four people with direct knowledge of Eichel’s decision
CALGARY – Natalie Spooner scored twice and had an assist to lead Canada to a 7-0 quarterfinal win over Germany in the women’s world hockey championship Saturday. Melodie Daoust’s goal and two assists gave her a team-leading four goals and six assists in the tournament, ahead of Spooner with four goals and five assists. The
The Carolina Hurricanes say they’ve signed an offer sheet with Montreal Canadiens centre Jesperi Kotkaniemi. The team says the agreement would see the 21-year-old restricted free agent join the ‘Canes on a one-year deal worth $6.1 million US. The Canadiens now have seven days to match the offer. Kotkaniemi had 20 points (five goals, 15
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, does Jack Eichel changing agents alter the odds the Boston Bruins might be in the discussion to land the unhappy center from the Sabres? Meanwhile, can the Dallas Stars really afford to give John Klingberg what he’s worth? What is the status of John Tavares when it comes to being
In this edition of Toronto Maple Leafs’ News & Rumors, I’ll share some recent news that John Tavares self-reported himself to be ready for the upcoming Maple Leafs’ training camp. Second, I’ll look at an older story out of Pittsburgh where former Maple Leafs’ forward Kasperi Kapanen vaguely suggested that he’s enjoying life with the
6:50 PM ET Carolina tendered an offer sheet to restricted free agent Jesperi Kotkaniemi on Saturday as an ongoing storyline between the Hurricanes and Montreal Canadiens continued. Two years after Carolina star forward Sebastian Aho received a five-year, $42 million tender as a restricted free agent from the Canadiens, a deal that the Hurricanes matched,
The San Jose Barracuda have re-signed forward Evan Weinger to a one-year American Hockey League contract. Weinger, 24, collected four goals and four assists in 28 games with the Barracuda in 2020-21, his third pro campaign. He added one goal and two assists in four playoff games for San Jose, and also tallied one goal
CALGARY – Blayre Turnbull had to make peace with not playing a women’s world hockey championship in her home province of Nova Scotia. The forward from Stellarton was going to represent Canada at the world championship in Halifax and Truro in 2020. The championship cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, those communities were awarded the
RCMP say speed was a contributing factor in a crash that claimed the lives of three junior hockey players on the weekend. Parker Magnuson, Ronin Sharma and Caleb Reimer, who were aged between 16 and 17, died early Saturday when the car they were travelling in crashed into a tree in the Fraser Heights neighbourhood of