Sep 18, 2020 After the Dallas Stars had eliminated his Colorado Avalanche in Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals, Nathan MacKinnon stopped in the handshake line to tell Stars head coach Rick Bowness that he was now rooting for him. “Losing sucks. But losing to such a great person in Rick makes it a
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Sep 18, 2020 Meg and Justin Dowling welcomed their first child, a daughter named Perri, on March 21 — one week after the NHL season was paused. They spent three months together as a family. On June 27, Dowling flew to Dallas for postseason training camp, while Meg and Perri stayed home in Cochrane, Alberta.
7:41 AM ET The 2020 Stanley Cup Final is set! The Tampa Bay Lightning — this summer’s cardiac kids — knocked out the New York Islanders with a Anthony Cirelli overtime goal. It’s the third straight series the Lightning have clinched in an overtime game this summer, and earns them the right square off against
11:17 PM ET The 2020 NHL playoffs have nearly reached their final conclusion. The Dallas Stars are your champions of the Western Conference, while the Tampa Bay Lightning have joined them from the Eastern Conference. It was a season with lots of twists and turns — including a nearly five-month pause due to the coronavirus
4:13 PM ET EDMONTON, Alberta — The Stanley Cup will fly back from Edmonton with the winning team to its playing city. But after that, nobody knows how hockey’s most famous trophy will celebrate. The NHL and the Hockey Hall of Fame are weighing options on what to do next with the Cup. Typically, each
12:00 PM ET Every week, we’ll provide a handy recap and accompaniment to the latest episode of “Quest For The Stanley Cup,” the NHL docuseries about the playoffs, available exclusively in the U.S. on ESPN+. The third episode for the 2020 playoffs is titled “Stick to the Plan.” Describe this episode in 10 words or
12:33 PM ET The Arizona Coyotes named Bill Armstrong their new general manager on Thursday. Armstrong, 50, has been the St. Louis Blues‘ assistant GM/director of amateur scouting the past two seasons. He replaces John Chayka, who resigned as GM on the eve of the Stanley Cup playoffs, leading the team to say he “quit”
12:25 PM ET The IIHF announced that the 2021 World Junior Championship will be held without spectators and in a single-venue “bubble” format in Edmonton, Alberta, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The premier international men’s hockey event for players under 20 is typically held Dec. 26-Jan. 5 annually and was due to take
10:00 AM ET What a time to be a New York Islanders fan. Normally when you hear that, it doesn’t portend good things. It means the Islanders were criminally mismanaged or were purchased by an actual criminal or were forced into a nomadic arena existence that hopefully doesn’t end with them in Quebec City. But
6:55 AM ET There has been only one NHL playoff team to rally and win after facing a 3-1 series deficit in the round immediately preceding the Stanley Cup Final: The New Jersey Devils in 2000, who went on to win the Stanley Cup. The architect of that team? New York Islanders GM Lou Lamoriello.