7:00 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. Beyond the Colorado Avalanche and Calgary Flames leading their respective divisions, the NHL’s Western Conference playoff races remain fairly wide open. Four weeks from today we’ll have much more clarity on the first-round
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11:02 PM ET ESPN News Services Auston Matthews scored his NHL-leading 50th goal of the season and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Winnipeg Jets 7-3 on Thursday night. Matthews scored Toronto’s sixth goal of the game into an empty net with 2:06 left in regulation. He moved past Leon Draisaitl (49 goals) of idle
9:09 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Whoa! It’s a Double Aho! Both NHL players named Sebastian Aho — one a defenseman for the New York Islanders, the other a forward for the Carolina Hurricanes — scored goals for their teams Thursday night. And at nearly the exact same time. According to Sportsnet Stats,
8:16 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — After a 15-year career in which he etched his name on the Stanley Cup and the Vezina Trophy, Tuukka Rask is focusing now on avoiding the rink. “Don’t even go there. Not yet,” the retired Bruins goalie said Thursday night when asked if his daughters had taken up
3:54 PM ET ESPN News Services Arizona Coyotes leading scorer Clayton Keller had surgery Wednesday night after fracturing his leg in a 5-2 win over the San Jose Sharks. Keller is “doing well,” the team announced, and is expected to be out 4-6 months. He was taken off the ice on a stretcher after being
7:00 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. Throughout the course of a season, players that have been traded or signed elsewhere in free agency will skate against former teammates, and this process plays out hundreds of times. Tonight’s game at
1:02 AM ET ESPN News Services GLENDALE, Ariz. — Arizona Coyotes leading scorer Clayton Keller was taken off the ice on a stretcher after suffering a leg injury in Wednesday night’s 5-2 win over the San Jose Sharks. Keller was taken to a local hospital for further evaluation, and the Coyotes said they would update
11:41 AM ET Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild signed defenseman Alex Goligoski to a two-year, $4 million contract extension on Wednesday. The 36-year-old Goligoski is in his first season with the Wild, his home-state club. He has two goals, 26 assists and a team-leading plus-34 rating in 58 games. His new
7:05 AM ET With more than a week since the 2021-22 NHL trade deadline, it’s given us a small taste of all the traded players suiting up for their new teams — for better or worse. For this week’s Power Rankings, we’ve added notes on how the players acquired this trade season have performed in
7:00 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. The NHL’s 2021-22 regular season has not ended. But if all of the remaining games were canceled, the current No. 2 vs. No. 3 seed matchup in the Pacific Division would pit the