7:32 AM ET DENVER — It’s the third period at Ball Arena. The Colorado Avalanche are playing in the Stanley Cup Final against the Tampa Bay Lightning, but hockey is about to take a brief back seat to a millennial singalong for 18,000 fans. The familiar opening chords to Blink-182’s “All The Small Things” echo
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7:05 AM ET It was Super Bowl Sunday in Las Vegas, and drinks were flowing at a private party for VIPs inside a Japanese restaurant at the Bellagio. High-rollers were betting shots of Fireball on whether the next play in Super Bowl LV between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers would be a
7:30 AM ET THE GREATEST RIVALRY in hockey history left quite a mark on the Detroit Red Wings and the Colorado Avalanche. Twenty-five years after the Wings and Avs were locked in a fantastic, relentless and breathtakingly violent winner-take-all battle for NHL supremacy, Avs enforcer Claude Lemieux still likes to point out the prodigious bump
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The 2022 Stanley Cup Final could be decided Friday night in Denver, with the Colorado Avalanche holding a 3-1 lead over the Tampa Bay Lightning. Who needs to step up for the Lightning to force the series back to Tampa? Who is the Conn Smythe favorite? Will the Avs lift
9:00 PM ET Tickets for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final in Denver are reselling for an average of $1,375, according to Vivid Seats. The Colorado Avalanche have a 3-1 series lead over the Tampa Bay Lightning and can win the Stanley Cup on home ice on Friday night. The average price is the
1:53 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Jared Bednar said there was “nothing” to the controversy surrounding Nazem Kadri‘s game-winning goal in the Colorado Avalanche‘s 3-2 overtime victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday. Kadri scored midway through the extra frame to give the Avalanche a 3-1
11:52 AM ET Associated Press SUNRISE, Fla. — Paul Maurice’s journey toward becoming the new coach of the Florida Panthers included a fortuitous flick of the remote control, plus was aided by a college admissions department. He was watching games one night in January, a month or so after he stepped aside as coach of
9:15 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — The Stanley Cup Final hits differently when hockey’s Holy Grail is in the building. After four games, the Colorado Avalanche lead the Tampa Bay Lightning, 3-1. The Stanley Cup will be in the house in Denver on Friday night with its white-gloved handlers. “They’re a team that’s looking to
8:00 AM ET Sweet, a non-fungible token (NFT) distribution platform, is now the official NFT partner and digital collectibles marketplace of the NHL, the NHL Players’ Association and the NHL Alumni Association in one of the largest licensing deals in league history. With a planned launch at the start of the 2022-23 NHL season, the
1:46 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Lightning coach Jon Cooper held a short, tense news conference after their Stanley Cup Final Game 4 loss on Wednesday night during which he questioned the legality of Colorado Avalanche center Nazem Kadri‘s game-winning goal in overtime. Cooper rambled for a minute on his love of the