2:57 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Columbus Blue Jackets will be without two key players injured in Saturday’s loss to Philadelphia for several weeks. The team put rookie forward Alexandre Texier and defenseman Ryan Murray on injured reserve on Monday. The 20-year-old Texier is expected to miss two to four weeks with
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12:25 PM ET St. Louis Blues star forward Vladimir Tarasenko will undergo shoulder surgery on Tuesday, the team announced. Tarasenko will be placed on long term injury reserve and will be re-evaluated in five months, meaning he will miss the majority of the 2019-20 season. Tarasenko sustained the injury in a game against the Los
11:41 AM ET Devante Smith-Pelly, who scored seven goals during the Washington Capitals‘ Stanley Cup-winning run in 2018, has signed a contract to play in the KHL. The Kunlun Red Star, which play in China, announced they had signed the 27-year-old winger to a one-year contract. Smith-Pelly was waived by the Capitals in February, ahead
7:00 AM ET Alex Ovechkin doesn’t just believe his team’s No. 1 defenseman, John Carlson, should win his first Norris Trophy. The Washington Capitals captain kicked off an all-out blitz campaign as the team toured Western Canada this week. It began with Ovechkin declaring, in Calgary, that he had a preferred hashtag: #Johnny4Norris. “That’s the
1:50 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders On Sunday, for only the 19th time in recorded sports history, we have a “Sports Equinox,” where there are games in NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB all in the same day. Since this is a rare feat, we decided to join in the fun and pick a “Sports Equinox
11:28 PM ET Associated Press BARRIE, Ontario — Hockey Hall of Famer Dale Hawerchuk is fighting stomach cancer. The 56-year-old former Winnipeg Jets star is getting chemotherapy treatment after taking a leave of absence as coach of the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League in September. “The chemo has hit me pretty hard,” Hawerchuk
5:44 PM ET The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired forward Andreas Martinsen and a 2021 seventh-round draft pick from the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for defenseman Erik Gudbranson on Friday, the teams announced. Gudbranson, acquired in February of last season, had been a healthy scratch in recent games, with rookie John Marino getting more playing time for
2:53 PM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — Blues forward Vladimir Tarasenko will not travel with the team for weekend games at Boston and Detroit after suffering an unspecified upper-body injury in a win over Los Angeles. General manager Doug Armstrong said Friday that Tarasenko will be re-evaluated when the team returns following Sunday’s game
1:00 PM ET We go a touch slower yet again next week, down to 43 NHL games on the week. Once again we have another team with only a single game on the schedule, however, this time it probably doesn’t greatly impact your fantasy grand plans. The Ottawa Senators are off until a Saturday matchup
4:00 PM ET After last week’s poking and prodding of the current crop of underachievers, let’s check in with those on the opposite end of the fantasy spectrum: assets presently exceeding our preseason expectations. And, more pressingly, whether managers can count on them for much of the same moving forward. Included alongside each perceived overachiever