5:08 PM ET Switzerland’s national hockey leagues will play in empty rinks this weekend thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. The Swiss government put an immediate ban on events involving more than 1,000 people on Friday. The National League’s final regular-season qualifying rounds scheduled for this weekend in Ticino will be played “without spectators” according to
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3:07 PM ET In the span of a week, David Ayres has gone from part-time Zamboni driver to getting his own hockey card as an NHL goaltender. Upper Deck announced on Friday that Ayres, the 42-year-old emergency backup goalie who helped the Carolina Hurricanes defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs last Saturday night, is getting a
10:45 AM ET The New York Rangers famously sent their fans a letter two seasons ago, transparently laying out that the club was going to be going through some tough times in the short term, but that they’d return to being a top contender soon enough. Well, it appears the rebuild has gone quicker than
10:56 PM ET ESPN News Services OTTAWA, Ontario — Bobby Ryan recorded a hat trick in his first home game in more than three months, leading the Ottawa Senators to a 5-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night. Ryan, who made his return Tuesday night at Nashville, entered the joint NHL/NHLPA assistance program
10:44 AM ET The National Hockey League is really good at fixing problems that neither need fixing nor are problems in the first place. “Problems” such as fans voting goons into the All-Star Game. Spin-o-ramas in the shootout. How players should or should not tuck in their jerseys. The conference playoff format. And now, if
7:00 AM ET The NHL trade deadline came and went, and we were treated to a flurry of moves of varying degrees of importance to the playoff races. For the most part, it was a pretty sensible deadline, in that the teams currently contending for playoff spots were the ones that generally added to their
4:44 PM ET Associated Press An all-female broadcast team in Canada will cover an NHL game next week between the Calgary Flames and Vegas Golden Knights. Play-by-play announcer Leah Hextall, game analyst Cassie Campbell-Pascall and reporter Christine Simpson will work the March 8 game in Calgary on Sportsnet, a group of Canadian regional sports networks.
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12:34 AM ET New Jersey forward John Hayden was fined $2,016.13, the maximum allowable under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, for cross-checking Red Wings forward Tyler Bertuzzi during the Devils’ 4-1 win on Tuesday night in Detroit. 2 Related The incident occurred at 19:14 of the third period after Bertuzzi checked Hayden’s teammate, rookie forward Jack
8:10 PM ET Vancouver Canucks goaltender Jacob Markstrom underwent a minor lower-body procedure Wednesday and will be re-evaluated in two weeks, Canucks general manager Jim Benning announced. Markstrom underwent an MRI on Monday after suffering the injury in a 9-3 win over Boston on Saturday. Backup Thatcher Demko will receive the bulk of the workload