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
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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
6:55 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. The final day of the 2021-22 NHL regular season is exactly one month from today. There are many games to be played and playoff races to be run between now and then, but
11:08 PM ET ESPN News Services WASHINGTON — Carolina Hurricanes center Jesperi Kotkaniemi was injured on a penalized hit with 1.8 seconds left, and put no weight on his left leg as he left the ice Monday night during a 6-1 victory over the Washington Capitals. With the game long decided, Kotkaniemi was hit by
10:44 PM ET ESPN News Services OTTAWA, Ontario — Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk has died from an illness, the team said Monday night. He was 62. The team announced Melnyk’s death with a statement from his family that mentioned “an illness he faced with determination and courage.” The statement did not explain what the
8:41 PM ET Associated Press MANALAPAN, Fla. — Sheldon Kennedy never envisioned a moment like this two decades ago. Kim Davis didn’t see it coming as recently as 2018. The pair led a discussion Monday with the NHL’s 32 general managers at their annual meeting — their first in-person gathering since March 2020 because of
5:47 PM ET ESPN News Services Noah Cates is going from Beijing to Broad Street after the Philadelphia Flyers signed the forward prospect to a two-year, entry-level contract. Cates signed a deal Monday for the rest of this season and 2022-23 and is expected to play in the NHL immediately. His college season ended when