9:50 AM ET After finishing third in the regular season, the Straubing Tigers were well-positioned to challenge for Germany’s Deutsche Eishockey Liga championship. It would have been the first one in franchise history for Straubing, a city of fewer than 48,000 people in lower Bavaria whose hockey team consistently has one of the smallest budgets
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6:02 PM ET The Columbus Blue Jackets became the first NHL team to say Wednesday they would play home games without fans due to the coronavirus outbreak. The team’s announcement comes after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said he will issue an order banning spectators from games in the state. The Blue Jackets’ statement says: “Remaining
5:35 PM ET Philadelphia Flyers forward Nate Thompson will miss at least two weeks with a knee sprain, the Flyers announced Wednesday. Thompson, acquired from the Montreal Canadiens last month, stumbled into the corner boards awkwardly Tuesday night, along with Boston right wing Ondrej Kase, and injured his left knee in the Bruins’ 2-0 victory.
7:00 AM ET We have reached the point of the NHL season where fans have to check the standings each morning to find out whether their team is in or out of the playoffs. But for this week’s ESPN NHL Power Rankings, we took the whole campaign into consideration, and identified the player on each
1:45 PM ET Associated Press The Colorado Avalanche will be without top scorer Nathan MacKinnon for at least a week after he suffered a lower-body injury. MacKinnon was hurt during the second period of Monday’s loss to the Los Angeles Kings. It’s the latest blow to an injury-plagued Avalanche team that is trying to catch
9:20 AM ET The Boston Bruins entered Tuesday night with the lead in the Atlantic Division, Eastern Conference and entire NHL. They’re pretty great! They exited Tuesday night as the first team to reach 100 points in the standings this season, and they did so with a thorough victory over the Philadelphia Flyers, a team
10:35 PM ET The NHL’s emergency goalie system has created new celebrities, like 42-year-old former Zamboni driver David Ayres, who was thrust into action last month for the Carolina Hurricanes. Now famous people are signing up to be emergency goalies. Larry Walker, the longtime Colorado Rockies outfielder who was voted into the Baseball Hall of
7:36 PM ET Toronto defenseman Morgan Rielly was activated off injured reserve Tuesday and was in the lineup as the Maple Leafs outlasted the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 in a pivotal game for playoff positioning in the Eastern Conference. Rielly, 26, one of Toronto’s alternate captains who missed 23 games because of a broken foot,
6:08 PM ET The Mid-American Conference on Tuesday announced a “restricted attendance policy” for its men’s and women’s postseason tournaments in Cleveland, closing both events to the general public. The decision came hours after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine recommended that sporting events at indoor facilities in the state take place without spectators. Credentialed institutional personnel,
7:00 AM ET When Dominik Kubalik arrived in Chicago for Blackhawks training camp in September, he was far from a lock to make the roster. Kubalik, 24, was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in the seventh round in 2013. Every summer, the Kings checked on Kubalik to see how he was doing in Europe.