7:00 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN It’s Game 1 of the Stanley Cup playoffs for the St. Louis Blues, and rookie goaltender Jordan Binnington is standing in the middle of a madhouse. The Bell MTS Centre in Winnipeg provides one of the NHL’s most raucous home-ice advantages, as generations of Jets-obsessed Manitobans assemble in white shirts
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7:30 AM ET Chris PetersESPN NHL Close Chris Peters is ESPN’s NHL draft and prospects analyst. The Chicago native previously covered the NHL for CBSSports.com and founded the popular independent blog UnitedStatesofHockey.com where he covered the game at all levels since 2010. A large number of rookies yet again injected talent and entertainment into the
10:16 AM ET Emily Kaplan Greg Wyshynski After three Stanley Cups and a decade of dominance, it’s easy to forget that the Chicago Blackhawks looked very much like the current Florida Panthers when then-GM Dale Tallon hired Joel Quenneville as his coach in 2008. They had a collection of young stars that weren’t quite yet
6:56 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN They say anything can happen in the Stanley Cup playoffs, and yet one of the greatest regular-season teams in NHL history blowing a three-goal lead to lose on home ice to the lowest seed in its conference felt stunning to the point where “anything” wouldn’t cover it. Here’s what happened
3:52 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN SAN JOSE, Calif. — Joe Pavelski‘s face was numb, but his spirits were high. The Sharks captain opened the scoring in Game 1 of San Jose’s series against the Vegas Golden Knights with a goal that sparked the Sharks to an emphatic 5-2 victory on Wednesday night. But with the
6:50 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Slava Voynov is appealing the suspension imposed by the NHL after it determined he committed acts of domestic violence. Jonathan Weatherdon, a spokesman for the NHL Players’ Association, said Wednesday that the organization had filed an appeal on behalf of Voynov. Players have the right to
1:57 AM ET ESPN News Services Colorado Avalanche All-Star forward Mikko Rantanen returned from an upper-body injury and played in Thursday night’s 4-0 loss in Game 1 of their first-round series against the Calgary Flames. Rantanen had been sidelined since taking a check into the boards near the team benches at Dallas on March 21.
3:43 PM ET Associated Press ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Colorado Avalanche All-Star forward Mikko Rantanen has recovered from an upper-body injury and will play in the team’s first-round playoff series against Calgary. Game 1 is Thursday night in Calgary. Rantanen has been sidelined since taking a check into the boards near the team benches at Dallas
11:13 AM ET Ben ArledgeESPN.com Close Editor for NFL and NHL team, as well as a contributing hockey writer. Previously with ESPN The Magazine, ESPN Chalk and ESPN Fantasy. Joined ESPN in 2012 after graduating from Colgate University. Sixteen teams have made the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs, but of course just one can hoist the
1:30 PM ET At the top of every coach’s wish list heading into the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs is quality goaltending. With top-notch play between the pipes, teams are capable of playing at their highest confidence level and sometimes achieve far more than they ever believed possible. But predicting which teams will receive hot goaltending