7:00 AM ET The 2021 NHL season is here! After awarding the Stanley Cup in September following a most unusual 2019-20 season, we’re back on the ice again. Four new divisions, 56-game schedules and, most importantly, 116 consecutive nights of NHL games, beginning Wednesday. For our first week of power rankings, we offer a reason
NHL
7:00 AM ET NHL Insiders The puck drops on the 2020-21 NHL season this week, a season that will be unique in a great many ways: new divisions, a new playoff format, ads on helmets and much more. But we’re looking way ahead, answering the big questions: Who will win the Stanley Cup? Who are
7:21 PM ET The NHL announced that 27 players had confirmed positive COVID-19 tests during training camps, which concluded Tuesday. Of those players, 17 were members of the Dallas Stars, who shut down their training facilities last Friday after an outbreak. Dallas’ first three games — at Florida on Thursday and Friday and at Tampa
6:04 PM ET Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild have signed forward Marcus Foligno to a three-year, $9.3 million contract extension on Tuesday, as he comes off the best season of his NHL career. The deal takes a potential free agent off the market next summer and keeps Foligno in the fold
4:10 PM ET Hours after announcing plans to have 6,000 fans at home games, Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk reversed course on Tuesday as Ontario declared a second provincial emergency due to COVID-19. “I’ve submitted a robust public safety plan that will allow 6,000 fans in the Canadian Tire Centre that includes health protocols ranging
11:54 AM ET San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the Northern District of California, according to multiple reports. The 29-year-old lists assets of about $10 million, mostly in real estate, and liabilities of almost $27 million. As part of the filing, Kane says that he might not even
10:38 AM ET The Boston Bruins will retire Willie O’Ree’s No. 22 and raise it into the rafters this season, honoring him for being the NHL’s first Black player. The Bruins will celebrate O’Ree in a ceremony on Feb. 18 before a game against the New Jersey Devils. O’Ree, who debuted for the Bruins 63
10:16 AM ET The Chicago Blackhawks are embarking on a rebuild, and they want their young coach to be a part of it. The team announced Tuesday that Jeremy Colliton has received a two-year extension that runs through the 2022-23 season. Colliton is starting his third season with the Blackhawks after replacing legend Joel Quenneville.
9:40 AM ET It’s challenging to keep up with the news during a typical NHL offseason. It’s doubly challenging to do so when that offseason begins in late September, ends in mid-January and every day in between presents another focus-devouring distraction from pressing issues like which team signed Radko Gudas. (Spoiler: It was the Florida
9:00 AM ET The Arizona Coyotes named Lyndsey Fry as their new radio analyst. She will become the third woman to fill that role for an NHL team. Fry, who played for Harvard and the 2014 U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team, grew up in Arizona. While the 28-year-old said the radio job was “completely unexpected,”