Station Casinos properties in Las Vegas are hoping to attach themselves to the excitement of the Vegas Golden Knights hockey team, which, remarkably in its first season, is now the favorite to win the Stanley Cup. The hotel and casino operator is sending out redemption details to its 150,000 “Boarding Pass” loyalty members to be
8:32 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN After contentious public lobbying from both head coaches, the NHL suspended Winnipeg Jets defenseman Josh Morrissey for Game 5 of the series against the Minnesota Wild for his cross-check to the head of center Eric Staal. The Jets lead the Wild 3-1, with Game 5 scheduled for Friday in Winnipeg.
Much to the chagrin of Los Angeles Kings fans, their team’s power outage will have to wait until October for restoration. On Tuesday night, the Vegas Golden Knights stifled the Kings offense in Game 4 of their first round Playoff series, to the tune of a 1-0 suffocation. The loss completed a four-game sweep in
Philadelphia Flyers center Sean Couturieri s a game-time decision for Wednesday’s Game 4 against the Penguins, coach Dave Hakstol said. Couturier had to be helped off the ice at the team’s practice on Tuesday after a collision with teammat Radko Gudas, who was moving backward and didn’t see Couturier. After tumbling to the ice, Couturier
As the 2017-18 season wrapped up for the Chicago Blackhawks on April 7, 2018, the NHL career of Patrick Sharp did as well. With three Stanley Cups as well as an Olympic gold medal to his name, he’s retiring from a career most NHL players can’t imagine in their wildest dreams. As one of the
Before each playoff game, the San Jose Sharks have a local celebrity open the door to the locker room as the team heads to the ice. Before the third game of the series against the Anaheim Ducks, the honor went to champion boxer Andre Ward. He first gained fame by winning an Olympic gold medal,
The Pacific Division playoff series have some striking similarities, but there’s one that’s impossible to ignore: One team is dominating the series as the Vegas Golden Knights and San Jose Sharks are three games up on their opponents. The only difference between the two is that the Sharks have won two of their games on
The 2017-18 NHL season has concluded and the Stanley Cup playoffs are well underway. While 15 teams are enjoying beautiful weather on the beach and pondering their failures of the season, 16 teams are in the midst of desperate battles for the chance to lift the Stanley Cup. While the Minnesota Wild are playing the
Sidney Crosby having playoff success with the Pittsburgh Penguins isn’t anything new. After all, with the Penguins’ 2017 Stanley Cup win, Crosby has now won the Conn Smythe two years in a row. But in the start to the Penguins’ 2018 playoff run, Crosby has hit a new milestone. With his eleventh career postseason appearance, Crosby
For the past two seasons, the Toronto Maple Leafs have been unhappy with their fourth line center situation. The problem has been a combination of players that just aren’t good enough for the NHL and players that don’t fit the role that Mike Babcock wants his fourth line center to play. Last year this was
Oh, that (in)famous Detroit Red Wings defense. In what was a disastrous year for the Red Wings, their team defense certainly accounted for most of the blame. With no true, top-pairing blueliners on the roster—but plenty of past-their-prime veterans—Detroit’s defense was a sore spot for the struggling franchise. Part of Detroit’s conundrum can be traced
In a must-win game, the Devils came up with the outing they needed to cut their series deficit by one. They played with a sense of urgency they lacked in the first two games and got under the Lightning’s skin, forcing them to commit seven minor penalties. Here are a couple of takeaways from Monday’s
I have always believed that Game 4, in a series, is always the most important to win. It’s especially crucial when a series is at two games to one. The difference between being tied at two and being down three games to one is a vast gap. The Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins face-off in
LOS ANGELES — One year ago, the Vegas Golden Knights had no players on their roster, and Gerard Gallant was four days into his new job as the first head coach of the expansion team. On Tuesday, Vegas became the first franchise in NHL history to sweep a postseason series in its inaugural season when
Winnipeg‘s Connor Hellebuyck, Nashville‘s Pekka Rinne and Tampa Bay‘s Andrei Vasilevskiy are the finalists for the 2017-18 Vezina Trophy. All three are currently playing in the Stanley Cup playoffs, including Nashville’s Rinne, who is a finalist for the third time but has yet to win the award. Flyers center Sean Couturier, the team’s leading scorer
At the start of the third period of Game 2, Braden Holtby led the Washington Capitals out of the tunnel, took a deep breath and then threw his head forward to pull his mask down before skating onto the ice. With that, Holtby, who started the postseason as a backup, was back. Washington relieved Philipp
The one consistent throughout the Tampa Bay Lightning’s history is their affinity for having star forwards on their roster. Over the course of 25 years, the franchise built themselves around the philosophy of score first and score often, sometimes at the expense of the other positions on the ice. Even when the team was going through
The 2017-18 season for the Vancouver Canucks went, more or less, as expected — a below-average showing as the organization’s rebuild kicked off. With that being said, most of the media conversations swirling around the Canucks were, not only about prospects and rookies, but about the veteran presence on the team. Case and point: Daniel
Late last week, Los Angeles’s “Miracle Mile” experienced a power outage that left approximately 3,000 people sans electricity. Power was restored for most within 24 hours. Around the same time, the Los Angeles Kings also experienced a power outage. The problem is that their power failure, of the on-ice variety, still requires remediation and has
The Buffalo Sabres may have missed the playoffs for the seventh consecutive year, but their American Hockey League farm team, the Rochester Americans, ended their three-year playoff drought. It’s a silver lining for the organization in an otherwise disappointing season. Baby steps. The Amerks first-round, best-of-five series starts Friday, April 20, against their I-90 rival,
There have been a few disappointments early on in the 2018 NHL playoffs. The Vegas Golden Knights overwhelming the Los Angeles Kings, and the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers exchanging blowouts come to mind. However, one of the biggest disappointments of these playoffs has been the Toronto Maple Leafs’ horrendous defensive performance against the Boston
When the Winnipeg Jets 2.0 made their debut in 2011, no one in their right mind believed the team was destined for the playoffs that season. Or even the next few seasons. General Manager Kevin Cheveldayoff, one year removed from a Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup win, had taken over the former Atlanta Thrashers and promised
It’s gone from bad to worse for the Anaheim Ducks. Down 2-0 in their first-round series against the San Jose Sharks and needing to win Game 3 in Silicon Valley to make this a competitive series, the Ducks instead lost in embarrassing fashion, falling by a score of 8-1. They now trail the series 3-0.
There was no player more valuable to the Buffalo Sabres in their first two or three years of the franchise than the acrobatic Roger Crozier. Oftentimes heralded as “The Artful Dodger” in between the pipes for the Sabres, the diminutive 5-foot-8, 160-pound goaltender truly lived up to the moniker. If you watch old footage of
LOS ANGELES — Outside of the Los Angeles Kings‘ training facility is a photo of the Stanley Cup and the names engraved on the trophy after the Kings won the trophy in 2012 and 2014. There are 11 players left on the roster from the team that won the Stanley Cup in 2014, meaning there
Anyone who predicted the Vegas Golden Knights to make it this far in their inaugural season was either dabbling in some wishful thinking or is a prophet. Anyone who now claims they foresaw a 3-0 series lead over the Los Angeles Kings is likely a liar. The Golden Knights are in a position to sweep
An effective fourth-line center is a valuable asset for any NHL team. Regardless of whether the New York Rangers view themselves as a contender next year or not, solidifying the bottom of the roster will provide an interesting challenge for general manager Jeff Gorton and the new coaching staff. As it stands today, the Rangers
The Winnipeg Jets came into Game 3 of their series against the Minnesota Wild flying high, no doubt feeling above the clouds thanks to two big-time wins and fervent fan support both in and outside Bell MTS Place. Although their charter landed in the Twin Cities without incident — albeit a day late due to
The body’s not even cold yet, but that hasn’t stopped idle speculation from heating up as to just what went wrong with the 2017-18 Montreal Canadiens. More specifically, speculation as to who were the main culprits. The People vs. Pacioretty and Price Whereas some interpreted general manager Marc Bergevin’s post-mortem press-conference comments as an attempt
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Leo Komarov is out for Monday night’s Game 3 matchup with the Boston Bruins in their Eastern Conference first-round series. Komarov, 31, has a lower-body injury sustained in Game 2 on a hard check from Bruins defenseman Kevan Miller. Coach Mike Babcock said Komarov will try skating Tuesday and would likely
The Columbus Blue Jackets are full of wonderful stories these days. Everywhere you look up and down their lineup, players at different points in their career are making a major impact. Collectively, they have jumped on the Washington Capitals by winning two straight from them at Capital One Arena. Game 3 and the momentum all
The Boston Bruins are two games into their Eastern Conference Quarterfinal matchup against the Toronto Maple Leafs and so far, the main storyline is the production from the B’s top line of Brad Marchand, Patrice Bergeron, and David Pastrnak, who have accumulated a total of 20 points (five goals, 15 assists) and helped guide the
After a strong performance in Game 1, Washington Capitals winger Andre Burakovsky’s playoff push could be derailed against the Columbus Blue Jackets. The 23-year-old forward suffered an upper-body injury after Boone Jenner sent him into the boards late in the first period, and he appeared to injure his left shoulder. Burakovsky, who was visibly uncomfortable,
Boston Bruins center Riley Nash made his return to the lineup Monday as the first-round series shifted to Toronto for Game 3 with the Maple Leafs. Nash has been out since March 31 after being struck in the ear by a slap shot. The Bruins won the first two games in Boston. “The atmosphere will
What can be said about a man that everyone knows so much about? If you’re a fan of the NHL you likely know the Pat Burns story: A police officer for 17 years, three-time Jack Adams award winner (as coach of three different Original Six teams: Montreal, Toronto, Boston), a Stanley Cup champion with the
The 2017-18 NHL Stanley Cup playoffs are underway, as sixteen teams completed their second and third postseason matchups over the weekend. It’s a little weird for Chicago Blackhawks fans; their team isn’t participating for the first time since the 2008-09 season. For nine consecutive years, they were part of the postseason festivities. We all know
With the 2017-18 NHL season over, it’s time for the Detroit Red Wings to evaluate their performance and make roster decisions heading into the 2018 NHL Draft and free agency. As the rebuild progresses, this time becomes more and more important in producing Detroit’s next winner. During his press conference on locker clean out day,
12:07 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The Boston Bruins entered their first-round series against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs as the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference, having finished five points better in the regular season. Through four games, everything went as expected: The Bruins had a 3-1 series lead.
On Monday, The Hockey Writers will take stock of everything that happened in the Philadelphia Flyers organization. What were the results of the games played and the impact it had on their run towards the Stanley Cup? Which players were all over the stat sheets? We will also take a deep dive into social media
There was a lot different in the second game of the matchup between the Anaheim Ducks and San Jose Sharks. And yet, in the most meaningful ways, it was the same. The result, as it was in the series opener, was a Sharks win. In Game 2, the final score was 3-2. The reason for
Game 2 between the Nashville Predators and Colorado Avalanche was thrilling. There were huge hits, breakaway goals, and a daring late-game comeback. What’s most interesting though, is that very little of the exciting events came at five on five. Rather, four on four and special teams dominated the day as referees were determined to dispel
With the playoffs underway across hockey there are a few prospects from the New Jersey Devils still alive in pursuit of a championship, but with their AHL affiliate, Binghamton Devils just completing their season most of the future Devils will be now entering their offseason programs. For the first part of this update we will
If there’s anything we’ve learned the first two games of the first-round series between the Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs, it’s that the Bruins are still, very much, the Bruins of old. Now, obviously, they can’t exactly replicate the Big Bad Bruins of the 1970s in the modern National Hockey League. But the team
There were many times this season where it appeared that the Carolina Hurricanes defense loafed on goaltender Scott Darling. More times than I can recall I read fans voicing their observations that said, “The defense is hanging Darling out to dry.” To be honest, at times it did look like the effort being expended on
It feels like since Shea Weber arrived in Montreal, every possible criticism has been thrown at him. Critics have said he is too slow, can’t move the puck or the game has passed him by. He is indeed the opposite of the fan favourite he was traded for and Weber will never be P.K. Subban
The first two games of the Stanly Cup Playoffs have gone about as well for the Tampa Bay Lightning as they could have hoped, with the team leaving their home ice in Tampa with a 2-0 lead in the series, creating a difficult hill for the New Jersey Devils to overcome. When a team wins
As if the stench of losing wasn’t bad enough for fans of the Buffalo Sabres. Earlier in the season, one of their beat writers suggested a stealth tank. And now, another is igniting the possibility of a conspiracy theory involving Ryan O’Reilly making calculated statements to get traded. O’Reilly’s Locker Cleanout Day Interview Last Monday’s
WASHINGTON — A linesman injured his left knee and was helped off the ice in Game 2 of the first-round playoff series between the Columbus Blue Jackets and Washington Capitals. Steve Barton collapsed to the ice after his left skate knocked into a skate of Columbus forward Josh Anderson on Sunday. The game was delayed
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