4:02 PM ET The Seattle Kraken are the NHL’s best-selling expansion identity launch ever, with sales four times the previous record set by the Vegas Golden Knights, according to Fanatics, the league’s official retail partner. Twelve days after the Kraken officially unveiled their name, logo and colors, the team is still responsible for two of
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10:35 AM ET Bryant McBride watched the messages multiply. Blake Wheeler of the Winnipeg Jets on social media, calling for people to “stand with the black community and fundamentally change how the leadership in this country has dealt with racism.” Jonathan Toews of the Chicago Blackhawks and Claude Giroux of the Philadelphia Flyers tweeting “Black
7:15 AM ET The New York Rangers face elimination on Tuesday, and others could be in the same spot after today’s slate of games. Keep this in mind: Teams with a 2-0 lead are 55-1 (98.2 percent) in winning a best-of-5 NHL series in the NHL, which the league had held most recently from 1980-86.
7:00 AM ET When the NHL season was paused in March, New York Rangers goalie Alexandar Georgiev went home to Russia. “I follow the world news daily and obviously the U.S. a lot,” Georgiev said. “And a big theme all over the world was what was going on in the U.S. and the racial issues
11:44 PM ET Four members of the Dallas Stars and Vegas Golden Knights took a knee during the U.S. and Canadian national anthems on Monday. Vegas forward Ryan Reaves, one of the NHL’s few Black players, and goaltender Robin Lehner knelt with Dallas forward Tyler Seguin and Jason Dickinson before their round-robin postseason game in
3:19 PM ET ESPN News Services TORONTO — Carolina’s Andrei Svechnikov scored three times for the first postseason hat trick in franchise history and the Hurricanes beat the New York Rangers 4-1 on Monday for a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup qualifier series. Svechnikov beat Henrik Lundqvist for the game’s first goal less than
2:00 PM ET The NHL said on Monday that there have been no positive coronavirus tests through the first week in its two bubbles. The NHL has administered 7,013 tests since the 24 teams arrived in Edmonton, Alberta, and Toronto on July 26. Every member of each team’s 52-person traveling party has been tested daily.
11:53 AM ET Vancouver Canucks forward Micheal Ferland was fined $5,000 by the NHL for spearing Ryan Hartman on the Minnesota Wild bench during Game 1 of their qualification-round series Sunday night. That’s the maximum allowable fine under the collective bargaining agreement. Micheal Ferland has been penalized for spearing against the Wild on Sunday. Getty Images
9:00 AM ET The NHL returned this weekend to restart its season with a 24-team postseason tournament, featuring both a round-robin series for the top seeds and a best-of-five qualification round for the others. The league adopted an “All Day Hockey” approach, with puck drop of the first game on Saturday at noon ET, and
11:37 AM ET Associated Press Tears streamed down Brent Sopel‘s face as he watched himself on screen, summoning the courage to detail the darkest moments of his lifelong struggles with dyslexia. The stinging memories of being taunted by classmates. The empty feelings of worthlessness that drained Sopel even while winning the Stanley Cup as a