12:48 PM ET After missing almost all of last season with the lingering effects of a concussion, Chicago Blackhawks forward Andrew Shaw is again in the concussion protocol. The team made the announcement Thursday, adding that defenseman Connor Murphy is out 10-14 days with a hip injury. Shaw has a history of concussions and admitted
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Feb 9, 2021 That’s it. We are done messing around. Three teams have played 14 or more games, which is the quarter mark of the campaign. We give players a lot of leeway at the start of the season to account for slow starts, small sample sizes and new dynamics. But we can’t wait around
4:00 PM ET Slow starts It happens every year. Often drafted early, a solid portion of those projected to tear it up come stumbling out the gates, forcing their respective fantasy managers to make some tough decisions. Stay the course with these reputed prolific performers or call it a day in lieu of other sleeper/wild
12:27 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — The Columbus Blue Jackets activated goaltender Elvis Merzlikins off injured reserve Thursday. Merzlikins, 26, had been sidelined by an upper-body injury since he got hurt during practice on Feb. 3. He is 2-2-1 with a 2.76 goals-against average and a .913 save percentage in six games this season.
9:00 AM ET The worst thing about the sports GOAT debate is that it’s redefined one of my favorite terms in sports, which is “the goat.” It used to indicate the counterpoint to the “hero.” It was the catalyst for defeat, the one who wears horns of shame and gnaws on cud while the champions
8:11 PM ET The Philadelphia Flyers‘ game against the New York Rangers on Sunday is postponed with three Flyers players — Justin Braun, Travis Sanheim and captain Claude Giroux — on the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol list. This is the second-straight postponed game for the Flyers, though the league says that Philadelphia will be able to
6:35 PM ET Vegas Golden Knights forward Tomas Nosek became the first NHL player this season to be pulled during a game because of a positive COVID-19 test, the league said on Wednesday. Nosek did not return to play in the third period of the Knights’ 5-4 win at home over the Anaheim Ducks on
7:00 AM ET We have reached the quarter mark of the 2021 NHL season — at least for the teams which haven’t had their schedules disrupted by COVID-19 yet. But we’re also coming up on another big holiday. So in the spirit of Valentine’s Day, we identified something we love about every team in this
7:10 PM ET The last time the Pittsburgh Penguins announced a new general manager they shocked the hockey world by hiring Jim Rutherford, the long-tenured Carolina Hurricanes executive who introduced himself by saying he only expected to be in Pittsburgh for about three seasons. Three seasons later, Rutherford was raising his second Stanley Cup with
2:45 PM ET The Pittsburgh Penguins dramatically reshaped their front office Tuesday, hiring Brian Burke as president of hockey operations and Ron Hextall as the team’s new general manager. “We feel incredibly lucky to bring in two highly respected executives with a combined 50-plus years of NHL management experience,” said Penguins president and CEO David