Sep 27, 2023, 03:51 PM ET Washington Capitals defenseman Joel Edmundson is recovering from hand surgery and expected to miss four to six weeks. He broke his hand in a scrimmage at training camp Sunday, and Tuesday’s surgery was to stabilize the fracture. The Capitals acquired Edmundson in a trade with the Montreal Canadiens on
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Sep 27, 2023, 03:00 PM ET Calgary Flames forward Jakob Pelletier will undergo surgery on his left shoulder and is out indefinitely. The team announced Wednesday that surgery will be performed next week. The injury occurred Monday night in a preseason game against the Seattle Kraken when Pelletier, 22, was pushed into the boards by
Sep 26, 2023, 08:10 PM ET Cory Schneider, who played parts of 13 NHL seasons as a goaltender primarily with the New Jersey Devils and Vancouver Canucks, announced his retirement from the league on Tuesday. Schneider, 37, last played in the NHL during the 2021-22 campaign and was not signed to a team ahead of
Sep 26, 2023, 07:59 AM ET It’s been a week of firsts for women in the National Hockey League. Professional Women’s Hockey League coach Kori Cheverie was behind the bench for the Pittsburgh Penguins‘ preseason game Sunday, and then AHL coach Jessica Campbell did the same for the Seattle Kraken on Monday. Other women have
Sep 25, 2023, 04:54 PM ET The Columbus Blue Jackets added Mark Recchi as an assistant coach to Pascal Vincent’s staff on Monday. Recchi was last on a bench in the 2021-22 season with the New Jersey Devils an assistant who ran the club’s power play. Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2017,
ESPN News Services Sep 25, 2023, 04:26 PM ET Sean Couturier will skate in a game for the first time in 20 months on Monday. The Philadelphia Flyers‘ forward had back surgery twice since 2021 and last played a game in December of that year. The 30-year-old said he feels “pretty good” since training camp
Kristen Shilton, ESPN NHL reporterSep 25, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Kristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. The dawn of an NHL season offers unparalleled promise. It’s a slate wiped clean for the ultimate fresh start. Everyone’s on equal footing again, in an official erasure of whatever happened — good or bad
Associated Press Sep 24, 2023, 12:04 PM ET NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Former NHL player Nicolas Kerdiles died Saturday after a motorcycle crash in Nashville, according to police. He was 29. The former Anaheim Ducks forward drove his motorcycle through a stop sign early Saturday and hit the driver’s side of an SUV, according to the
Associated Press Sep 23, 2023, 07:37 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — The NHL’s first preseason game in the Southern Hemisphere went ahead Saturday after officials apparently solved some issues with the quality of the ice at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena. Ahead of Saturday’s Global Series game between the Los Angeles Kings and Arizona Coyotes, won
Greg Wyshynski, ESPNSep 22, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. As an American visiting Australia for the first time, Arizona Coyotes forward Clayton Keller had a simple request. “I want to see a kangaroo,” he said. Keller is in Melbourne with the Coyotes for their NHL Global Series preseason