1:47 PM ET The Florida Panthers have agreed to a one-year contract with center Brian Boyle, the team announced. Boyle, 34, finished last season with the Nashville Predators, joining the team from the New Jersey Devils a few weeks before the trade deadline. He had five goals and zero assists in 26 games with Nashville,
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2:45 PM ET Christopher Peters NEWARK, New Jersey — Jack Hughes, the No. 1 overall pick in this year’s draft, scored his first NHL goal for the for the New Jersey Devils on Saturday in a game that had particularly special meaning for the rookie and his family. With older brother and fellow NHL rookie
4:32 PM ET Cross another big name off the list of restricted free agents next summer: Center Nico Hischier and the New Jersey Devils have come together on a seven-year deal worth $50.75 million. Hischier, 20, was the first overall pick in the 2017 NHL draft. He has two assists in six games this season,
3:43 PM ET Panic or exercise a little patience? Now that we’re a few games out of the 2019-20 gate, here’s a round-up of several popular fantasy figures falling short of preseason expectations. And whether invested managers should wait it out or make adjustments in the here and now. Cause for concern Thomas Chabot, D,
2:27 PM ET Toronto Maple Leafs captain John Tavares will miss at least two weeks because of a broken finger. The Maples Leafs announced the news Thursday, one day after Tavares suffered the injury in a 4-3 loss to the Washington Capitals. Tavares will be re-examined in two weeks, according to the team, meaning he
2:10 PM ET Vegas Golden Knights forward Valentin Zykov has been suspended for 20 games without pay for violating the terms of the NHL/NHLPA Performance Enhancing Substances Program. “I’ve been informed that I am being suspended,” Zykov said in a statement through the NHLPA. “While I haven’t been able to discover how I tested positive,
7:30 AM ET On Saturday afternoon, for only the second time in their hockey-playing lives, brothers Quinn and Jack Hughes will line up on opposite sides of the ice. And this time they will do it wearing NHL uniforms, just as they had dreamed of while playing on outdoor rinks growing up, honing their preternatural
7:30 AM ET When Dylan Larkin made his NHL debut for the Detroit Red Wings in 2015, at age 19, it was a hockey dream. Larkin grew up in Waterford, Michigan, halfway between Flint and Detroit. He played his state championship hockey game at Joe Louis Arena and hoped one day to return as an
5:50 PM ET Ron Hainsey was a plus-30 last season. That means Ron Hainsey was sixth in the NHL in something, at a time when Ron Hainsey shouldn’t be sixth in the NHL in anything. Go back 15 years, and a plus-30 would have been an indisputable measure of a defenseman’s prowess. But we’ve gotten
8:40 PM ET Jim Hughson, lead NHL announcer for Sportsnet in Canada, apologized on Wednesday for his comments two weeks ago that made light of Toronto Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews‘ disorderly conduct charge. Matthews, 22, was charged in May in his hometown of Scottsdale, Arizona, for what police say was an incident involving a