11:17 AM ET Bruce Boudreau’s wild tenure in Minnesota has come to an end. GM Bill Guerin fired Boudreau on Friday, ending his four-season stint with the organization. Dean Evason, who was an assistant coach for Boudreau in Washington and then in Minnesota, will be named interim coach. The timing of the firing this late
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11:52 AM ET ESPN News Services St. Louis Blues defenseman Jay Bouwmeester has undergone an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator procedure and his status will be updated next week, the team said in a statement Friday. The procedure restores the heart’s normal rhythm and was done after Bouwmeester suffered a cardiac episode while on the bench during Tuesday
7:10 AM ET “What we have at hand is the rarest of sporting events, an event that needs no buildup, no superfluous adjectives. In a political or nationalistic sense, I’m sure this game is being viewed with different perspectives, but manifestly, it is a hockey game.” Al Michaels’ “Do you believe in miracles?” call in
7:00 AM ET NHL experts The Pittsburgh Penguins took one of the big names off of the 2020 NHL trade deadline board this week with their acquisition of Jason Zucker, but a number of interesting players remain on the menu of available options. As the Feb. 24 deadline approaches, there are also playoff races to
1:32 PM ET Maple Leafs goaltender Frederik Andersen will return Thursday against the Dallas Stars after missing Toronto’s past four games with a neck injury. Andersen has not played since suffering the injury on Feb. 3 against the Florida Panthers. He initially was checked for a concussion before ultimately being diagnosed with the neck injury.
1:32 PM ET Maple Leafs goaltender Frederik Andersen returned Thursday against the Dallas Stars after missing Toronto’s past four games with a neck injury, allowing three goals on 19 shots in a 3-2 loss. Andersen had not played since suffering the injury on Feb. 3 against the Florida Panthers. He initially was checked for a
11:59 AM ET The Dallas Stars placed right wing Alexander Radulov on injured reserve Thursday with an upper-body injury. The roster move is retroactive to Tuesday, meaning Radulov will not be eligible to return until Feb. 18 and will miss Dallas’ next three games. Radulov appeared to suffer the injury when he collided with a
11:54 AM ET The Tampa Bay Lightning will be without stars Nikita Kucherov and Steven Stamkos and second-line center Anthony Cirelli for Thursday’s game against the Edmonton Oilers. Kucherov, the NHL’s seventh-leading scorer with 70 points, has a lower-body injury. Stamkos will miss his third straight game with a lower-body injury. Kucherov suffered his injury
12:10 PM ET It’s getting very, very hard to sympathize with the National Hockey League when it comes to Olympic participation. For a while, it was easy. The International Olympic Committee was on the other side of the table, an organization that makes FIFA look like Amnesty International by comparison. Pick your toxicity: The bottomless
10:43 PM ET David Pastrnak‘s MVP-like season continued Wednesday night for the Bruins. The star right winger needed just two periods to record his fourth hat trick of the season as Boston bested the rival Canadiens at TD Garden, 4-1. The four hat tricks are the most in a season by a Bruins player since