10:17 PM ET Game 1 of the 2020 Stanley Cup Final was a wonderful site for Dallas Stars fans, as their team took a 1-0 lead over the Tampa Bay Lightning on goals from Joel Hanley, Jamie Oleksiak, Joel Kiviranta and Jason Dickinson; the lone goal for the Lightning came from Yanni Gourde. In case
NHL
6:56 PM ET The NHL said it was aware of an incident where a Florida Panthers assistant coach allegedly kicked a player on the bench, but said that it left any investigation and punishment up to the team. Canada’s TSN reported this week that coach Mike Kitchen, 64, kicked a Panthers player on the bench
6:11 PM ET NHL commissioner Gary Bettman admitted on Saturday that he “would not be surprised” if the start date for the 2020-21 season “slips into later December, [or] could slip into January.” “There’s still too much we don’t know,” Bettman said Saturday, speaking from the Edmonton, Alberta, bubble ahead of Game 1 of the
7:00 AM ET So here we have it, a Stanley Cup being awarded in September. In a bubble. It will be either the Tampa Bay Lightning (whose only Cup win came back in 2004) against the Dallas Stars (lone Cup in 1999). It’s the first time two Sun Belt teams have faced off in the
7:00 AM ET The Tampa Bay Lightning and Dallas Stars are the final teams standing in the NHL’s postseason bubble, ready to battle for the second Stanley Cups in their franchises’ respective histories. But before they lift the Cup, one player will be handed the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player in the
8:37 PM ET ESPN News Services Tampa Bay Lightning captain Steven Stamkos is out, Brayden Point is hurting and Anthony Cirelli is hobbling, too. The Lightning enter the Stanley Cup Final on Saturday against the Dallas Stars with several key players dealing with injuries the team somehow was able to withstand during an impressive run
5:26 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Jared McCann is sticking with the Pittsburgh Penguins. The team announced Friday it has re-signed the forward to a two-year contract that runs through the 2021-22 season. The deal carries an average annual value of $2.94 million. McCann, 24, tied a career high with 35 points during the
12:19 PM ET The 2020 Stanley Cup Final between the Eastern Conference champion Tampa Bay Lightning and the Western Conference champion Dallas Stars begins Saturday night in the Edmonton bubble. As a service to fans who have a general interest in NHL hockey but have no idea what has happened in the past few months,
12:53 PM ET Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — Mikko Koivu‘s extraordinary career with the Minnesota Wild is over. General manager Bill Guerin said Friday the team will not resign Koivu, whose contract is expiring. Koivu, 37, is the only full-time captain the club has had — he was appointed in 2009 after the role
1:09 PM ET NHL Insiders The 2020 Stanley Cup Final is finally here! After a monthslong pause due to the coronavirus pandemic, the NHL staged its most unusual postseason tournament ever, with 24 teams heading to bubbles in Toronto and Edmonton. From that field of 24, we’re down to two: the Tampa Bay Lightning from