9:31 AM ET Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Sabres assistant coach Don Granato is hospitalized with pneumonia and will miss the start of the season. The Sabres announced Tuesday that Granato was taking a medical leave of absence. Top minor league coach Chris Taylor will fill in on an interim basis. The 52-year-old Granato
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8:48 AM ET Associated Press PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Professional hockey is coming to the Southern California desert. The minor league American Hockey League has awarded an expansion franchise to NHL Seattle that will play at a new arena on the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation in downtown Palm Springs. The $250 million project announced Monday
9:00 AM ET Every offseason, the NHL tweaks its rulebook. Some of the changes are functional and nuanced. Some of them are sweeping. This summer, thanks to the NHL and NHL Players’ Association’s competition committee — and the owners’ rubber stamp — we had both. Let’s chat on all the pertinent adjustments: Q. Why is
7:00 AM ET It seems like yesterday that the St. Louis Blues were wobblingly piloting scooters through a Stanley Cup championship parade. The NHL offseason comes and goes so quickly, you can be excused for not being cognizant of every signing, trade, hiring, firing and headline that emerged from the hockey summer. Fear not! As
6:56 PM ET Star Brock Boeser will be ready to roll when the Vancouver Canucks play their NHL season opener Wednesday at Edmonton. Boeser was cleared from the concussion protocol and returned to practice with his teammates on Monday, a week after his head slammed into the boards on a hit from behind by the
Sep 28, 2019 Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canucks right winger Brock Boeser returned to practice Saturday less than a week after suffering a concussion. He wore a noncontact jersey and spent about a half hour participating in drills and skating on the first power-play unit. Boeser was placed in the concussion protocol after
5:06 PM ET NHL Insiders The 2019-20 NHL season is set to begin on Wednesday, with the St. Louis Blues trying to repeat as Stanley Cup champions, however unlikely. Senior NHL writer Greg Wyshynski, NHL draft analyst Chris Peters and Sports Betting analyst Doug Kezirian are here with their best futures bets before the pucks
12:05 PM ET Associated Press The NHL could be on the way to its version of “Are You Ready For Some Football?” The league is announcing a two-year partnership with Green Day that includes an opening song for NBC Sports’ “Wednesday Night Hockey.” The song, “Ready, Fire, Aim” isn’t custom-made for the NHL and will
7:00 AM ET Big questions. Bold predictions. Top prospects. Strengths and flaws. Breakout fantasy candidates. This is what you need to know for every team for the 2019-20 NHL season. The teams are arrayed here by division; click through the link for each team to read the full guide to the season. Jump to a
12:11 AM ET San Jose Sharks winger Evander Kane called his ejection for abuse of officials on Sunday night “an absolute joke,” while claiming there’s a double standard in the way NHL refs treat him. At 12 minutes, 51 seconds of the third period in a preseason loss at the Vegas Golden Knights, Kane and