12:43 PM ET NHL players said they’d like to see the “homestand” scheduling from this season continue but are against the concept of geographically aligned divisions going forward, according to an NHLPA poll released Thursday. Around 68% of the 447 players polled said they do not want to see regional divisions carried forward beyond this
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11:36 AM ET Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour has signed a three-year contract extension with the team, general manager Don Waddell announced on Thursday. “I thought we were on the same page,” Brind’Amour said. “It was just a matter of time, really. He knew I wanted to be a part of this, and I knew
9:25 AM ET Nathan MacKinnon was understandably surly. The Colorado Avalanche had been eliminated by the Vegas Golden Knights with four straight losses following two wins to open the series. He was being asked a series of questions from the media — some salient, some startlingly incoherent — about what went wrong and what happens
1:31 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Montreal Canadiens defenseman Jeff Petry returned to the lineup on Wednesday — and it was quite a sight. The defenseman, who missed the previous two games with an “upper body injury” took the ice with extremely bloodshot eyes. The condition was later revealed to be subconjunctival hemorrhage, which is
6:49 AM ET Once Cole Caufield saw the tweet, he immediately texted it to his brother, Brock. Caufield, the rookie Canadiens winger, had been a healthy scratch for Game 1 of Montreal’s first-round series against the Toronto Maple Leafs. That didn’t sit well with some fans, including one with 5.6 million Twitter followers: this Canadiens-Leafs
6:42 AM ET The New York Islanders split two games in Tampa Bay, giving them a golden opportunity to take control of the series with back-to-back games at the Nassau Coliseum. There’s only one obstacle: the Lightning started to look like their dominant selves again in Game 2. Meanwhile, the Montreal Canadiens continue to surprise,
5:12 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Jason Spezza re-signed with the Maple Leafs on Wednesday, agreeing to the NHL-minimum $750,000 for next season. The 38-year-old Spezza had 10 goals and 20 assists in 54 regular-season games for his hometown team and added three goals and two assists in seven playoff games. Spezza has 351
6:52 AM ET The Montreal Canadiens discovered they’re not in the North Division playoffs anymore, getting handled by the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 1 on the road. But a Game 2 win, and a split in Vegas, could change the trajectory of that series. Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Lightning evened their series up with
12:51 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Barry Trotz was livid on the New York Islanders‘ bench. The Tampa Bay Lightning’s Ondrej Palat had just scored to give his team a 2-1 lead in Game 2 of their Stanley Cup playoff semifinal series on Tuesday night. He did so as the referees and linesmen missed that
9:26 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — New York Islanders goalie Semyon Varlamov briefly left Game 2 of their Stanley Cup Playoffs semifinal against the Tampa Bay Lightning after a high-speed collision with center Brayden Point on Tuesday night. Varlamov left 13 minutes, 5 seconds into the first period and was replaced by rookie Ilya Sorokin,