10:04 PM ET ST. LOUIS — Even when he skips the event, Alex Ovechkin is the talk of the NHL All-Star Game. Ovechkin closed out the first half of the season with back-to-back hat tricks and eight goals in three games. He sits at 692 career goals, putting him just eight away from becoming the
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5:48 PM ET Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sharks owner Hasso Plattner gave general manager Doug Wilson a vote of confidence Thursday with his team mired in 13th place in the Western Conference. Plattner said the entire organization is disappointed in the performance so far but he believes Wilson can lead the team back
12:35 PM ET I don’t want to say there’s a slight power imbalance in the NHL this season, but it might be time to contract the entire Western Conference for its abject inferiority. OK, that’s not entirely fair. Let’s relocate the St. Louis Blues and Colorado Avalanche to the superior conference, and then contract the
7:00 AM ET The NHL appears to have gotten the message that its star players want the All-Star Game’s skills competitions to be challenging but not debilitating. It was outright painful to watch seasoned professionals struggle with carrying the puck through some convoluted, light-up gate or fruitlessly send 100 passes toward a tiny net on
7:23 PM ET ESPN News Services Toronto Maple Leafs forward Auston Matthews (wrist) won’t play in this weekend’s NHL All-Star Game, but he will attend the event in St. Louis, the team announced Wednesday. Matthews, 22, is day-to-day while he gets treatment for an ongoing wrist issue, Toronto said. 2 Related Matthews is tied for
7:00 AM ET The 2019-20 NHL season will take a pause this week as the league descends upon St. Louis for All-Star Weekend, a celebration of the league’s best. For this week’s edition of the Power Rankings, we identified the best decision each team has made since the end of the 2018-19 season. How we
3:46 PM ET Police in Philadelphia are investigating a complaint that Gritty, the Flyers‘ mascot, punched a 13-year-old following a photo shoot at a November event for season-ticket holders, a police spokesperson told The Philadelphia Inquirer. Chris Greenwell told the Inquirer that his son, Brandon, playfully patted Gritty on the head after the photo was
11:55 PM ET ESPN News Services Joel Quenneville is used to winning games at United Center. When you coach the Chicago Blackhawks for 11 seasons, it comes with the territory. Tuesday night was more of the same for him … just on the opposing bench. Frank Vatrano had three goals, Mike Hoffman had two assists
8:50 PM ET New York forward Artemi Panarin, the Rangers’ leading scorer and potentially the biggest offseason addition of any team in the NHL, missed Tuesday’s game vs. the New York Islanders with an upper-body injury. Panarin, signed by the Rangers in July after he led the Columbus Blue Jackets to the playoffs, has 26
3:51 PM ET Associated Press Former NHL forward Akim Aliu has signed in the Czech Extraliga for the remainder of the season, a source told the Associated Press on Tuesday. Aliu joins the Czech league team with 14 games left in the season; playing for HC Litvinov gives him a chance to display his game