1:46 PM ET Dallas Stars forward Joe Pavelski is in concussion protocol and will miss Game 2 against the visiting Minnesota Wild on Wednesday night, coach Peter DeBoer confirmed. “I don’t think that’s a secret,” DeBoer said Wednesday morning. Pavelski was injured on a high hit by Wild defenseman Matt Dumba in the second period
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12:28 PM ET BOSTON — Boston Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron is out for Game 2 against the Florida Panthers with an injury, coach Jim Montgomery announced Wednesday. Boston has a 1-0 series lead over Florida. The star center was a game-time decision for Game 1 but didn’t take part in pregame warmups. Montgomery said at
7:00 AM ET Mistakes. Goaltenders find them maddening. They also find them helpful. Notice how they act after giving up a goal. Sure, they react in the ways one would expect. But they also look up at the videoboard to assess what went wrong so they can learn from those miscues. This is the exact
1:18 AM ET Associated Press DENVER — Alex Wennberg had a goal and an assist, Philipp Grubauer stopped 34 shots and the Seattle Kraken made a successful playoff debut by beating the defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche 3-1 on Tuesday night. The second-year Kraken became the 13th expansion franchise to earn a win in
11:42 PM ET ESPN News Services LAS VEGAS — Winnipeg Jets forward Morgan Barron took a skate to his face Tuesday night, requiring more than 75 stitches, but he returned to the ice less than a period later. Barron was injured in the first period during a big scramble in front of the Vegas Golden
11:20 PM ET After the Devils‘ first playoff game since 2018 ended with a humbling loss to the New York Rangers on Tuesday night, New Jersey coach Lindy Ruff sought a silver lining. “The good thing is that now everybody has a game under their belt,” he said. The Devils fell 5-1 to the rival
9:59 PM ET TORONTO — Tampa Bay‘s Erik Cernak left Game 1 of the Lightning’s first-round playoff series against Toronto on Tuesday after taking a hit to the head from Leafs’ forward Michael Bunting. It was midway through the second period that Bunting caught Cernak up high with his elbow. Cernak was down on the
1:29 PM ET Boston Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron is questionable for Game 2 of their series against the Florida Panthers, coach Jim Montgomery said Tuesday. Bergeron was a game-time decision for Boston’s Game 1 victory on Monday but didn’t end up taking the pregame skate. The center left the Bruins’ regular-season finale at Montreal with
9:00 AM ET The Boston Bruins have given the NHL so much this season, from shattered records to David Pastrnak‘s wardrobe. As the 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs arrive, they’ve given us something else: a time machine. Most of us weren’t around when the Montreal Canadiens made the Stanley Cup Final every year in the 1950s,
7:00 AM ET Madison Square Garden, home of the New York Rangers, is 11 miles away from Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center, home of the New Jersey Devils. They are separated by a river. They are bonded by an intense, decades-long enmity. The Battle of the Hudson is one of the NHL’s most storied rivalries.