11:27 AM ET Philadelphia Flyers interim coach Mike Yeo will not be the team’s head coach next season, general manager Chuck Fletcher announced Tuesday. Yeo, 48, went 17-36-7 behind the Flyers’ bench this season, as Philadelphia failed to make the postseason cut for the second straight season. Yeo had previously been a head coach with
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7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The Stanley Cup playoffs are when the spotlight shines the brightest on the NHL. Not coincidentally, they’re also when hockey’s star players shine the brightest, too. Every preseason, we publish the ESPN NHL Rank, which rates the top 100 players based on how good they’re expected to be in the
1:30 AM ET The NHL Department of Player Safety is reviewing a cross-check delivered by Wild captain Jared Spurgeon in Game 1 of the team’s first-round series against the St. Louis Blues on Monday night in St. Paul, Minnesota, a source told ESPN. With 1:46 left in the third period and the Blues leading 4-0,
11:37 PM ET The Boston Bruins were routed in Game 1 of their first-round series against the Carolina Hurricanes, 5-1, but coach Bruce Cassidy wasn’t about to pin that on Linus Ullmark. “I am not faulting our goaltender for this,” Cassidy said Monday night. “We had some opportunities we needed to finish. Like they did.”
5:54 PM ET Nashville goaltender Juuse Saros will not be available for Games 1 and 2 of the Predators’ first-round Stanley Cup playoff series against the Colorado Avalanche. Predators coach John Hynes confirmed the decision Monday, putting Nashville without its top netminder until at least Game 3 on Saturday. Saros suffered a lower-body injury last
3:55 PM ET Associated Press HELSINKI — Finland and Sweden will ban from their national ice hockey teams any of their players who appear in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League from next season. Both ice hockey federations announced their decisions on Monday, two days after the KHL season ended. “The position of the Finnish Hockey Association
11:05 AM ET ESPN staff The NHL’s 32 teams have completed their 82-game schedules, and now 16 of them have a chance to take home the most glorious trophy in all of sports. Yes, the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs are upon us. And this year, they’re back on the networks of ESPN and ABC, including
11:36 AM ET Former NHL winger Ryan Malone and Jeremy Brodeur, son of Hockey Hall of Fame goalie Martin Brodeur, are among the players participating in the inaugural season of 3ICE, a new six-team 3-on-3 hockey league starting play in June. Malone, 42, played 11 seasons in the NHL with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Tampa Bay
7:00 AM ET As a service to fans who have a general interest in the National Hockey League but have no idea what’s happened since the Tampa Bay Lightning raised the Cup for the second straight postseason, we’re happy to provide this FAQ as a guide to the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs. And for you
6:26 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Leading scorer Artemi Panarin was back at practice on Sunday and will return to the New York Rangers lineup on Tuesday, when they open up their first-round series with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Panarin left the Rangers’ 4-3 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes last Tuesday at Madison