3:28 AM ET Vancouver Canucks agitator Antoine Roussel tried to get under the Vegas Golden Knights‘ skin in Game 1 of their series. Instead, the Knights said Roussel helped fuel their 5-0 blowout win on Sunday in Edmonton, Alberta. “He’s running around out there. I don’t think he’s distracting anyone but himself,” forward Reilly Smith
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2:05 AM ET ESPN News Services EDMONTON, Alberta — Robin Lehner recorded his first career playoff shutout, and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-0 on Sunday in the first game of their second-round playoff series. Lehner turned aside 26 shots. Reilly Smith, Jonathan Marchessault, Alex Tuch, Mark Stone and Max Pacioretty scored
8:00 AM ET The 2020 NHL playoffs roll on to the conference semifinals beginning on Aug. 22 with the Colorado Avalanche taking on the Dallas Stars. The Golden Knights and Canucks played only twice in the regular season, splitting the contests both staged in December. That seems like decades ago in pandemic time, so this
1:10 PM ET Vegas Golden Knights star Marc-Andre Fleury had his agent remove a social media image depicting the goaltender being stabbed in the back with a sword engraved with coach Pete DeBoer’s name. The Knights have started goalie Robin Lehner, whom they acquired at the trade deadline, in six of their eight postseason games.
4:02 PM ET Colorado Avalanche goaltender Philipp Grubauer has been ruled out for Game 2 of their conference semifinal series against the Dallas Stars after leaving their Game 1 loss with an injury. Coach Jared Bednar said he doesn’t “know for how long” his starting goaltender will be out of the lineup. Grubauer tweaked something
11:15 AM ET Associated Press The Washington Capitals have fired coach Todd Reirden after a second consecutive first-round exit in the Stanley Cup playoffs. General manager Brian MacLellan announced the move Sunday, three days after the Capitals lost to former coach Barry Trotz’s New York Islanders in a five-game series. Washington opted to promote Reirden
7:50 AM ET The NHL moved up Game 1 of the second round to Saturday night. We’re not sure if anyone told the Colorado Avalanche. “Dallas is a good team. But a lot of what happened tonight was self-inflicted. We didn’t get up to the standard that we have to play at,” said Avalanche forward
8:00 AM ET The 2020 NHL playoffs roll on to the conference semifinals beginning Saturday, with the Colorado Avalanche taking on the Dallas Stars. Tampa Bay won three of four regular-season matchups against Boston, as well as their contest in the round-robin portion of the postseason. Will the Bruins reverse that trend in this series?
12:57 AM ET ESPN News Services Colorado Avalanche goaltender Philipp Grubauer left his team’s 5-3 loss to the Dallas Stars on Saturday because of an injury. In the second period, Grubauer went face down on the ice after pushing a shot away with his right skate. He was helped off by trainers and replaced by
10:01 PM ET Associated Press Peter DeBoer didn’t name his starting goaltender for Game 1 of the Vegas Golden Knights‘ second-round series against the Vancouver Canucks. A tweet Saturday by Marc-Andre Fleury‘s agent might, however, have given that information away, and it certainly stirred up questions in the middle of the playoffs. Agent Allan Walsh