1:59 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Kelly Sowatsky fought back the tears after meeting Pittsburgh Penguins players on Thursday morning. This wasn’t just her favorite hockey team; this was the organization that helped save her life. Catch more than 180 NHL games streaming live this season on ESPN+. Click here for the upcoming schedule and to
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2:15 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The NHL has fined Winnipeg Jets defenseman Dustin Byfuglien for slashing Calgary Flames forward Johnny Gaudreau. The league announced the $2,500 fine on Friday. The slashing occurred 17:51 into the third period of Calgary’s 4-1 win Thursday night at Winnipeg. Byfuglien was assessed a minor penalty.
10:00 AM ET With John Tavares and the Toronto Maple Leafs squaring off against his former team, the New York Islanders, for the first time this season on Saturday night (7 p.m. ET on ESPN+), we ponder the big questions. Who wins the Stanley Cup first, the Maple Leafs or the Islanders? Greg Wyshynski, senior
9:08 AM ET As NHL action resumes following the Christmas break, we sit about halfway through the 2018-19 season. That means we have a big enough sample of games to see things take shape, but still have plenty of hockey to go before the playoffs. We also have enough hindsight to see how last offseason’s
3:25 PM ET You might think the universe would have granted us a bit of reprieve from the injury bug over the NHL’s three-day holiday break. You’d be wrong. Though the Nashville Predators welcomed back two impactful fantasy players in P.K. Subban and Viktor Arvidsson, the Montreal Canadiens announced that Carey Price wasn’t accompanying them
12:33 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The Wysh List publishes every Friday. For hockey fans, 2018 was a truly magical year, in the sense that nothing short of the supernatural could have gotten an expansion team in the Stanley Cup Final and the Washington Capitals to actually win the thing. What does 2019 hold? Here are
5:11 PM ET The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed center Jake Guentzel to a five-year contract extension with an average annual value of $6 million, the team announced Thursday. The deal begins next season and will tie Guentzel to Pittsburgh through the 2023-24 season. Auston Matthews, Connor McDavid, Alex Ovechkin and Nathan MacKinnon were named captains
5:01 PM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — Montreal goalie Carey Price will miss the Canadiens’ three-game trip because of a lower-body injury. The Canadiens said Thursday that Price will not travel to Florida. The Canadiens play the Panthers on Friday night, are at NHL-leading Tampa Bay on Saturday night, and at Dallas on Monday night.
7:00 AM ET Emily KaplanESPN After a three-day sojourn, the NHL is back and so are ESPN’s Power Rankings, voted on as always by our panel of experts. Previous ranking: 1 They’re on pace for 129 points. They’ve gone a month without a regulation loss. Eighteen players have double-digit points. What else is there to
3:14 PM ET The Boston Bruins are finally getting healthy. Defensemen Zdeno Chara and Kevan Miller and forward Jake DeBrusk were all activated from injured reserve ahead of Thursday night’s game against the Devils at TD Garden. Chara, the Bruins’ captain, has missed 19 games with a left MCL injury. Miller is returning ahead of