1:57 PM ET The Florida Panthers gave new coach Joel Quenneville some big pieces heading into next season with the signings of goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky and defenseman Anton Stralman on Monday. The Panthers announced Bobrovsky’s signing, and according to reports, he gets a seven-year deal with an annual average value of $10 million. The team
Month: July 2019
2:57 PM ET The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed former Carolina Hurricanes goalie Curtis McElhinney to back up Andrei Vasilevskiy. McElhinney gets a two-year deal with an annual average value of $1.3 million. After the signing of Scott Darling in 2017 did not solve the Hurricanes’ void in goal, the team was left scrambling last
1:34 PM ET The Dallas Stars have signed former Sharks captain Joe Pavelski as they juggle of their forward lines. The team announced that the 35-year-old Pavelski gets a three-year, $21 million contract. The Stars needed offensive help last season behind their top line of Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn and and Alexander Radulov, They made
1:15 PM ET Free-agent guard Austin Rivers has agreed to a two-year deal to return to the Houston Rockets, a league source tells ESPN’s Arian Wojnarowski. Rivers’ deal includes a player option on the second year, according to the source. Rivers has bounced around the league since New Orleans made him the 10th overall pick
1:18 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — A White Sox official says it was “poor form” for the team to show a scoreboard graphic of “famous people from Chicagoland” that grouped lynching victim Emmett Till with game show host Pat Sajak and film icon Orson Welles. Scott Reifert, the team’s vice president of communications, said
4:01 PM ET The Columbus Blue Jackets had a lot of production to replace with Matt Duchene and Artemi Panarin leaving, and they made a small move toward doing that with the signing of Gustav Nyquist on Monday. The 29-year-old Nyquist gets a four-year deal, and TSN is reporting that he carries an annual average
3:04 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — In the latest embarrassment for the New York Mets, the team has publicly apologized to two living members of its 1969 World Series championship team who were included in a video montage of dead players during the 50th anniversary celebration. With a message that filled up one
3:59 PM ET A former Edmonton Oilers goaltender is going to Calgary, and a former Calgary Flames goaltender is going to Edmonton. Calgary signed Cam Talbot to a $2.75 million, one-year deal, while Edmonton has agreed to sign Mike Smith to a $2 million, one-year deal with incentives. After losing his starting job in Edmonton
12:29 PM ET Red Bull’s Christian Horner said Max Verstappen’s victory at the Austrian Grand Prix was exactly what Formula One needed after recent criticism, adding that to have had the result changed due to a penalty would have been “incomprehensible”. Verstappen claimed a thrilling win on track, passing Sebastian Vettel, Valtteri Bottas and then
12:40 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — A month after setting a record for most home runs in a month, big league batters did it again and are on pace to shatter the season mark. Batters hit 1,142 home runs in June, seven more than they had hit in May. Five of the