4:13 PM ET Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Sabres will be leaning on their fourth-, fifth- and even sixth-string goalies for potentially the remainder of the season with Linus Ullmark listed as week to week with a lower-body injury. Interim coach Don Granato provided the update on Ullmark on Friday, saying the timetable
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3:53 PM ET The Vancouver Canucks will now resume their season on Sunday and will play their remaining 19 games in 32 days, the NHL announced on Friday. The amended schedule has the North Division finishing its season on May 19 — the last possible buffer day the NHL built into the schedule so it
2:55 PM ET The Colorado Avalanche will not play until at least Thursday after a third player was placed into the NHL’s COVID-19 protocols Friday, the league announced. Three games are being postponed at this time: against the Los Angeles Kings on Friday and Sunday and against the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday. The NHL
2:32 PM ET ESPN News Services GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Arizona Coyotes will take an extraordinary step before Saturday’s game against St. Louis by inducting Leighton Accardo into their ring of honor. Accardo, who left a deep imprint on the organization as a former member of the Arizona Kachinas youth hockey program, died of cancer
2:36 PM ET Steven Stamkos going on long-term injured reserve doesn’t mean Nikita Kucherov is returning from it, according to Tampa Bay Lightning coach Jon Cooper. Stamkos, the team’s star center, was placed on LTIR on Thursday with a lower-body injury. He has 34 points in 38 games this season, with 17 goals and 17
7:44 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. Fridays are typically light days on the NHL schedule, and this particular Friday is no exception to that rule, with just five games on the calendar. The good news is that all five
7:00 AM ET The 2021 NHL trade deadline was this week. “Dead” being the operative word. There were only 17 deals made on April 12, involving 26 players. Compare that with last season’s deadline day, which yielded 32 trades involving 55 players. But the 2020 NHL trade deadline happened in “the before times.” Obviously, a
11:02 PM ET The Tampa Bay Lightning have placed center Steven Stamkos on long-term injured reserve with a lower-body injury, the team announced Thursday. Stamkos has 34 points in 38 games this season, with 17 goals and 17 assists. Stamkos last played against the Columbus Blue Jackets on April 8, leaving in the third period
4:52 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Toronto Maple Leafs star center Auston Matthews will miss Thursday night’s game against the visiting Winnipeg Jets with an injury and is listed day to day. When asked if it was a recurrence of a wrist injury from earlier in the season, Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe said: “It’s
4:00 PM ET The Vancouver Canucks‘ game against the Edmonton Oilers on Friday will be postponed, a source confirmed to ESPN. The news comes one day after Vancouver forward JT Miller delivered passionate remarks saying his team was being rushed back after a COVID outbreak, adding it is “dangerous to a lot of players.” “What