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. Throughout the course of a season, players that have been traded or signed elsewhere in free agency will skate against former teammates, and this process plays out hundreds of times. Tonight’s game at
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1:02 AM ET ESPN News Services GLENDALE, Ariz. — Arizona Coyotes leading scorer Clayton Keller was taken off the ice on a stretcher after suffering a leg injury in Wednesday night’s 5-2 win over the San Jose Sharks. Keller was taken to a local hospital for further evaluation, and the Coyotes said they would update
11:41 AM ET Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild signed defenseman Alex Goligoski to a two-year, $4 million contract extension on Wednesday. The 36-year-old Goligoski is in his first season with the Wild, his home-state club. He has two goals, 26 assists and a team-leading plus-34 rating in 58 games. His new
7:05 AM ET With more than a week since the 2021-22 NHL trade deadline, it’s given us a small taste of all the traded players suiting up for their new teams — for better or worse. For this week’s Power Rankings, we’ve added notes on how the players acquired this trade season have performed in
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. The NHL’s 2021-22 regular season has not ended. But if all of the remaining games were canceled, the current No. 2 vs. No. 3 seed matchup in the Pacific Division would pit the
8:53 PM ET Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon missed Tuesday’s game at the Calgary Flames with an upper-body injury and was sent home, coach Jared Bednar said. Bednar didn’t specify MacKinnon’s injury to reporters but said his concern about it is “high.” Bednar said MacKinnon will get evaluated in Denver and that there’s no timeline
8:25 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — The Arizona Coyotes want a new state law that legalizes sports betting changed to allow them to keep running their mobile sports gambling operation when they move from Glendale to Arizona State University’s hockey arena next season. But the Arizona Indian Gaming Association and multiple Native American tribes
4:24 PM ET The NHL’s general managers held their annual meetings in Palm Beach, Florida, over Monday and Tuesday, convening in person for the first time since 2020. The agenda was filled with hot topics affecting the league now and over the next calendar year. Commissioner Gary Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly both spoke
1:48 PM ET MANALAPAN, Fla. — NHL commissioner Gary Bettman downplayed the league’s appetite for implementing a postseason salary cap, saying he doesn’t consider teams’ usage of long-term injury reserve a “front-burner issue.” “Nobody in that room [of NHL general managers] believes that it’s being abused,” Bettman said Tuesday as the league’s annual spring general
7:01 AM ET It has been two years since the NHL completed an 82-game regular season. Now, that finale is exactly one month away. The trade deadline has also passed, leaving each of the league’s 32 teams to approach these final weeks in their own way. Some will use it as a tune-up for the