7:15 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. The World Cup of Hockey might be no more — for now —
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11:05 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The NHL awards voters will fill out their ballots over the next two weeks, scouring every stats site for vital input into their decision-making process before inevitably just voting for someone on their beat or whoever already won the award. Some awards leaders seem as though they’re cemented. Others can
11:41 AM ET Emily KaplanESPN The Canadian Women’s Hockey League will fold in May, the league announced on Sunday morning, news that sent shock waves across the hockey community. The CWHL, founded in 2007, was home to some of the top players in the world, including Team USA’s Hilary Knight and Canada’s Marie-Philip Poulin. The
10:22 PM ET Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals became the third player in NHL history to record eight or more 50-goal seasons Saturday night — a list topped by Mike Bossy and Wayne Gretzky, who each had nine. The goal came with 5:25 left in the third period of the Capitals’ 6-3 road win
1:17 PM ET Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Arizona Coyotes have signed Nick Schmaltz to a seven-year contract extension. Financial terms of the deal announced Saturday were not disclosed. The 23-year-old Schmaltz arrived in the desert in a November trade that sent forward Dylan Strome and Brendan Perlini to Chicago. Schmaltz got off to
6:43 AM ET Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Arizona Coyotes have signed Nick Schmaltz to a seven-year contract extension. Financial terms of the deal announced Saturday were not disclosed. The 23-year-old Schmaltz arrived in the desert in a November trade that sent forward Dylan Strome and Brendan Perlini to Chicago. Schmaltz got off to
11:33 AM ET Let’s call it the Miracle Just Off The Ice. One year ago — on Saturday, March 31, 2018 — anyone who had arrived early at Pittsburgh’s PPG Paints Arena to watch the Penguins‘ pregame skate before their game against the Montreal Canadiens probably caught a flash of a day-glo yellow sign, in
8:00 AM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — HANGING ABOVE A DOOR in the Arizona State men’s hockey team’s locker room at Oceanside Ice Arena is a clock. It’s digital and rectangular, with red numbers that count down toward zero. And every day of every week this season, it was ticking. After the second intermission of games
3:10 PM ET If you’re still here, congratulations! The final six days of the NHL regular season approach and there are still edges to be found and advantages to be gained. But, things will get tricky. As teams begin to clinch their playoff position, we are going to get some “NFL Week 17 style” rest
7:00 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The Wysh List publishes every Friday. The NHL’s current playoff format needs to change. That much is clear. The players aren’t keen on it, most of the coaches complain about it and the fans aren’t enamored by it. They took something that wasn’t broken — the 1-through-8 format — and