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10:30 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Next week is Hockey Week Across America, beginning with Hockey Day In America on Sunday, Feb. 18. This week includes one of my favorite annual rites: “Wear Your Favorite Jersey Day,” in which fans are encouraged to wear their hockey jerseys to work or school or perhaps around the house,
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11:15 AM ET We’re fast approaching the crossroads of the 2018-19 regular season. The trade deadline serves that purpose on the NHL’s annual calendar, becoming an inflection points for teams by which they need to answer some important questions. How good is our team right now as currently constructed? What are we realistically trying to
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6:09 PM ET Who doesn’t like a winner? Written off as being irrelevant (or at the very least, forgettable) earlier this campaign, a few NHL clubs are noticeably redeeming themselves of late — winning games, scoring goals and reminding us they aren’t out of it just yet. Sure, in some cases, a playoff berth may
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7:00 AM ET Emily KaplanESPN Ah, love is in the air. This Valentine’s Day, it’s all about new love in the NHL. In this week’s Power Rankings, we identify the players whom teams (and fans) have fallen for this season. How we rank: The ESPN hockey editorial staff submits polls ranking teams 1-31, and those
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12:31 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The boldest move at the NHL trade deadline is usually no move at all. But that means ignoring the siren song of trading the future for the present and the allure of finding that final piece to complete the puzzle a team has meticulously constructed for months — or at
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6:23 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Pittsburgh Penguins star Evgeni Malkin was suspended one game by the NHL Department of Player Safety on Tuesday for an “intentional stick swing, with force, for the purposes of retaliation” against Philadelphia Flyers forward Michael Raffl. It is Malkin’s first suspension in his 835-game NHL career, although he was fined
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4:36 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Olli Maatta is dealing with an upper-body injury and is out indefinitely. The team placed Maatta on the injured list on Tuesday. The 24-year-old played just 4:57 in Monday night’s 4-1 win over Philadelphia before leaving the game. He did not return. Maatta has one
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