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. Tonight’s NHL schedule is not one that will have an outsized influence on the playoff races — the Chicago Blackhawks visit the Florida Panthers and the Anaheim Ducks head to Alberta to take
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7:05 AM ET The 2022-23 NHL trade deadline has passed. The grades have been handed out to GMs of all 32 teams. Now, it’s time for the rush to the playoffs to begin. For this week’s edition of the NHL Power Rankings, we have identified the toughest remaining stretch for each team for the duration
11:45 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — The Boston Bruins shut down NHL scoring leader Connor McDavid. They kept Leon Draisaitl off the scoresheet, too. It still wasn’t enough to beat the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night. The Oilers escaped a scare when McDavid limped off the ice late in their 3-2 win over the
6:27 PM ET Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — All-Star left wing Kirill Kaprizov is expected to miss the next three to four weeks with a lower-body injury, the Minnesota Wild announced Thursday. Kaprizov was hurt in the game on Wednesday at Winnipeg, when 6-foot-7 Jets defenseman Logan Stanley collided with him as he protected
4:01 PM ET Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. — The Detroit Red Wings have traded defenseman Steven Kampfer to the Arizona Coyotes for future considerations. Kampfer, 34, will report to Tucson of the American Hockey League after the trade announced on Thursday. Kampfer has not played in the NHL since appearing in 20 games for the
1:19 PM ET The Ottawa Senators‘ sale is reaching another pinnacle. Sportico reported Thursday that the Senators have received bids from nine groups interested in purchasing the club, with some valuations going north of $900 million. If the Senators were to sell for over $900 million, it would be the richest transaction in league history.
11:15 AM ET Associated Press The Premier Hockey Federation is taking its Isobel Cup championship game to the desert to close its eighth season. The women’s pro league announced Thursday it is partnering with the Arizona Coyotes to host the final at the NHL team’s home rink, Mullett Arena, on March 26. The arena on
9:00 AM ET When Bo Horvat was traded to the New York Islanders earlier this season, he lamented the end of his time with the Vancouver Canucks. “I thought I was going to be a Canuck for life, to be honest with you. Things just didn’t work out that way,” he said, before signing a
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. There is still more than a month left in the regular season, so the specific playoff matchups as they stand today may not be the same ones that we see in April. But
10:30 AM ET ESPN staff NHL fans have had this Thursday, March 9, circled on their calendars for quite some time. Tonight’s game featuring the Boston Bruins against the Edmonton Oilers (7:30 ET, exclusively on ESPN+ and Hulu) is not just a rematch of the 1990 Stanley Cup Final — although perhaps it is a