7:00 AM ET NHL Insiders We’ve got another Game 7 in the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs, and with a berth to the finals on the line, the stakes are higher in this Game 7 than for any that came before it this postseason. In front of a raucous crowd at the Nassau Coliseum in Game
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11:06 PM ET The Montreal Canadiens are going to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since 1993. Montreal defeated the Vegas Golden Knights, 3-2, in Game 6 at home in overtime on Thursday to continue their improbable run. No Canadian-based team has hoisted the Stanley Cup since Montreal last won in 1993 —
8:55 PM ET Associated Press EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Center Blake Lizotte has re-signed with the Los Angeles Kings on a one-year, $800,000 contract extension. The Kings announced the signing Thursday of Lizotte, a restricted free agent. Lizotte had three goals and seven assists in 41 games for the Kings last season. His plus-2 rating
6:26 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — An unidentified former Chicago Blackhawks player says in a lawsuit against the team that a then-assistant coach sexually assaulted him in 2010 during a playoff run to a Stanley Cup title and that the team did nothing after he informed a now-retired employee. After leaving the Blackhawks, former
5:17 PM ET Associated Press FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Stars signed forward Rhett Gardner to a $1.5 million, two-year contract after the 25-year-old recorded the first two points of his career with Dallas this season. Gardner had a goal and an assist in 28 games and finished with 52 hits. His average of 1.86
4:16 PM ET Six-time Stanley Cup champion Mark Messier is joining ESPN on a multiyear agreement to contribute to the network’s NHL coverage beginning next season. Messier will be a studio analyst when NHL games return to ABC, ESPN, ESPN+ and Hulu for the 2021-22 season. “The game of hockey, and the NHL, have afforded
3:23 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Longtime coach Benoit Allaire was hired Thursday as the New York Rangers‘ director of goaltending, one of several moves by new general manager Chris Drury to reshape the hockey operations department. Drury also promoted Jeff Malcolm to Hartford Wolf Pack goaltending coach, named Jean-Ian Filiatrault as the
11:45 AM ET The Seattle Kraken have named Dave Hakstol as their first head coach. Hakstol, 52, was an assistant coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs for the past two seasons. He previously coached the Philadelphia Flyers for three and a half seasons, before he was fired in the 2018-19 season. When he was hired
9:30 AM ET Tell me you know NHL playoff officiating is atrocious without telling me that you know NHL playoff officiating is atrocious. “We’re going to have situations where things don’t go our way. We can’t control what their thought process or decision-making is,” said Montreal Canadiens forward Brendan Gallagher, when asked his thoughts about
7:01 AM ET After the New York Islanders took Game 6 on Wednesday night, the NHL is officially two wins away from having the Montreal Canadiens and the Islanders playing for the Stanley Cup — although the Vegas Golden Knights and Tampa Bay Lightning may have something to say about that before it can happen.