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
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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
7:30 AM ET Day 2 of the NHL restart was just as exciting as the opener, as hockey fans were treated to fantastic goaltending performances, more upsets and a buzzer-beater. As we head to Game 2s of the qualification round, let it be known that teams that win Game 1 in a best-of-5 series typically
10:28 PM ET With postseason games played throughout the day, the NHL’s restarted season has been compared to March Madness. So it was only appropriate that the Colorado Avalanche defeated the St. Louis Blues with a buzzer-beater. Center Nazem Kadri scored a power-play goal with 0.1 seconds left in the third period, breaking a tie
3:23 PM ET Chicago Blackhawks forward Drake Caggiula received a one-game suspension for his check to the head of Edmonton’s Tyler Ennis on Saturday. The 12th-seeded Blackhawks defeated the fifth-seeded Oilers 6-4 in Game 1 of their best-of-five qualification-round series. Game 2 is Monday in Edmonton. The incident occurred at 7:41 of the second period.