11:58 PM ET ESPN News Services Pekka Rinne became just the 12th goalie to score a goal in NHL history Thursday night, scoring an empty netter to cap the Nashville Predators‘ 5-2 win over the host Blackhawks in Chicago. Rinne’s goal came with 22 seconds remaining, and the 37-year-old was subsequently mobbed by his teammates
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7:00 AM ET The St. Louis Blues ruined a lot of things last season. Playoff brackets. “Gloria.” The continuing presence of undetected hand passes on winning overtime goals. But mostly they ruined the concept of “bold predictions.” Seriously, how can any prognostication made at the midpoint of the NHL regular season compare to “a team
7:00 AM ET NHL Insiders All 31 teams have passed the midpoint of the 2019-20 NHL season, but nothing is settled. After you check out our midseason grades on each team, fixes for a handful of teams in the playoff hunt, our rundown of the biggest shocks of the first half and a look at
3:36 PM ET Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere will undergo arthroscopic knee surgery Jan. 14 and be sidelined approximately three weeks. The 26-year-old was injured in Tuesday’s overtime loss to the Hurricanes. He underwent an MRI Wednesday. The Flyers were already without defenseman Justin Braun until after the All-Star break due to a groin injury.
7:00 AM ET DALLAS — There are 31 head-coaching jobs in the National Hockey League. Rick Bowness has one of them — but he truly wishes he didn’t. “I’ve been coaching in this league since the early 1980s. I didn’t want to be put in this position,” Bowness, 64, said. “No one saw it coming.
11:13 PM ET If the San Jose Sharks are going to turn their season around, it won’t involve captain Logan Couture for several weeks. Couture is expected to miss up to six weeks with a fractured ankle suffered in the Sharks’ 3-2 loss at the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday night, TSN reported. Couture was
11:13 PM ET If the San Jose Sharks are going to turn their season around, it won’t involve captain Logan Couture for several weeks. Couture is expected to miss up to six weeks with a fractured ankle that he suffered Tuesday night in the Sharks’ 3-2 loss at the St. Louis Blues, general manager Doug
9:39 PM ET ESPN News Services FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Stars defenseman Stephen Johns could be nearing a return after missing a season and a half because of issues with headaches. The Stars loaned Johns to the Texas Stars of the American Hockey League on Wednesday for a conditioning assignment. The club didn’t indicate how
9:00 AM ET NHL teams have just passed the midpoint of their 2019-20 seasons, which is pretty amazing when you consider this season has been three years long. Or does it just feel like that to me because of all the teams yo-yoing in the standings due to parity, the parade of scandalous coach firings
8:57 PM ET ESPN News Services CALGARY, Alberta — The Calgary Flames and defenseman Rasmus Andersson have agreed to a six-year, $27.3 million contract extension. The deal was announced Wednesday. The 23-year-old native of Sweden has three goals, nine assists and 33 penalty minutes in 45 games for Calgary this season, his second full year