3:29 PM ET ESPN News Services Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Petr Mrazek is out indefinitely after having surgery on his right thumb, general manager Don Waddell said Wednesday. Mrazek is 2-1, with both wins coming via shutout, and he leads the NHL with a 0.99 goals-against average and a .955 save percentage this season. Coach Rod
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11:51 AM ET Associated Press CALGARY, Alberta — St. Louis Blues general manager Doug Armstrong will be the GM for the Canadian men’s team if NHL players participate in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Hockey Canada announced the move Wednesday, tapping Armstrong after he served on the management team that helped Canada win gold
7:00 AM ET The 2021 NHL season has officially begun to take form, as the February schedule gets rolling. For this week’s power rankings, we identified the biggest disappointment so far for every team. How we rank: The ESPN hockey editorial staff submits selections ranking teams 1 to 31 — taking into account past results
9:00 AM ET When the NHL Awards are handed out each year, there are accusations of geographic bias. Sometimes it’s due to the size of a market. More often it’s complaints about how one division or conference is covered by a larger press corps than another — the storied “East Coast bias” that always seems
7:20 AM ET ESPN News Services Colorado Avalanche star center Nathan MacKinnon has a lower-body injury that will sideline him “week-to-week,” coach Jared Bednar said Tuesday. MacKinnon suffered the injury in Sunday’s loss to the Wild and missed Colorado’s victory Tuesday over Minnesota. Bednar did disclose any specifics about the injury. “Obviously he’s a very
6:13 PM ET The Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils played a game on Sunday in Buffalo. By Tuesday, the next week of games for both teams had been postponed, and 16 players were on the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol-related absences list. The Sabres were scheduled to fly to New York for a two-game series against
1:48 PM ET Ariel Ben-Abraham ripped open a shipping box from China on Monday expecting to find accessories for his clothing company. Instead, he found a bundle of jumbo-sized hockey sticks intended for Washington Capitals star Zdeno Chara that had been randomly delivered to a basketball fan in suburban New Jersey. “This has to take
Feb 1, 2021 Every week, we’ll mine the waiver wire for lesser-rostered assets to help your squad, whether you favor dynasty or the redraft format, and we’ll also toss in some tips for DFS players out there. Finally, we will look at some former go-to fantasy assets who may be overvalued – in the short-
12:22 PM ET Associated Press The NHL has postponed Tuesday night’s game between the Buffalo Sabres and New York Islanders because of travel and weather-related concerns linked to coronavirus protocols. The snowstorm that hit the East Coast postponed the Sabres’ flight until game day, which altered COVID-19 testing and contact tracing and led to the
11:12 AM ET Associated Press ZURICH — Latvia was picked to stage the men’s world championship alone by the International Ice Hockey Federation on Tuesday after Belarus was removed as co-host last month amid political turmoil there. The tournament in May will be played at two venues in Riga, with all 16 teams staying in