7:02 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Great goaltending and timely scoring were the name of the games on Tuesday night, as the Columbus Blue Jackets and San Jose Sharks took 2-1 leads in their respective series. Here’s what happened in the NHL last night (check out replays of every playoff game on ESPN+) and what to
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11:53 PM ET Emily KaplanESPN COLUMBUS, Ohio — Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Sergei Bobrovsky used to have a reputation as an excellent regular-season goalie who flopped in the playoffs. This postseason, Bobrovsky — and the Blue Jackets — are changing the narrative. Bobrovsky propelled the Blue Jackets to a 2-1 series lead over the Boston
11:57 PM ET ESPN News Services RALEIGH, N.C. — Hurricanes goaltender Curtis McElhinney, making the first playoff start of his 11-year career, helped put Carolina on the brink of an Eastern Conference final berth Wednesday night. Starting in place of Petr Mrazek, who is day-to-day with a lower body injury, McElhinney stopped 28 shots as
6:02 PM ET Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — Rod Brind’Amour considers himself lucky to have two goalies he trusts. It looks like he is turning to the second one. The first legitimate goalie dilemma of the playoffs belongs to the Carolina Hurricanes, now that starter Petr Mrazek is dealing with a lower body injury that
2:42 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN When highly touted Harvard defenseman Adam Fox refused to sign a contract with the Carolina Hurricanes, who had traded for his rights, there was widespread speculation that the New York Rangers were his desired NHL destination. The speculation was accurate: The Hurricanes traded Fox to the Rangers on Tuesday in
8:00 AM ET ORNSKOLDSVIK, Sweden — Inside the left faceoff circle and just below the dot, as the U.S. men’s national under-18 team finishes its warm-up, Cole Caufield stands next to a blob of pucks. He slides each puck to his stick and fires off shot after shot into the opposite corner of the net.
7:30 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN SAN JOSE — From a distance it looked like a pom-pom, pulsating to the beat of an AC/DC song during a stoppage in play at a Colorado Avalanche home game. Upon further inspection, it was … curiously leafy. It was a bunch of kale. Not to be confused with Cale,
7:01 AM ET Emily KaplanESPN We only got one game on Monday night, but it sure was a thriller, as the St. Louis Blues‘ game-winner over the Dallas Stars was scored within the final two minutes of regulation. Here’s a recap of last night’s action (check out replays of every playoff game on ESPN+) and
2:45 PM ET Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — Carolina Hurricanes goalie Petr Mrazek is day-to-day with a lower-body injury, and defenseman Trevor van Riemsdyk is out with an upper-body injury. Coach Rod Brind’Amour also said Monday that forward Saku Maenalanen is expected to miss the rest of the Canes’ second-round series with the New York
10:26 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN COLUMBUS — The cannon is a lie. There’s a hand-crafted replica of a 1857 Napoleon cannon, once called “the best gun for all round field service” in the Civil War, that rests on two large wheels in Section 111 of Nationwide Arena. It fires at the start of Columbus Blue