9:59 PM ET ESPN News Services SEATTLE — Wednesday’s celebration outside the building that Seattle’s new NHL team will eventually call home came with all the formality of a groundbreaking event, complete with the principals taking turns giving remarks and ceremonially shoveling dirt. It also came with a new price tag even higher than what
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6:48 PM ET Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario — The Ottawa Senators have acquired defenseman Stefan Elliott and forward Tobias Lindberg in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins for defenseman Macoy Erkamps and forward Ben Sexton. The swap of minor leaguers was announced on Wednesday. Elliott and Lindberg will report to the American Hockey League’s Belleville
3:30 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The continuing offensive explosion in the 2018-19 NHL season has produced an intense race for the Hart Trophy, has tightened the field for the Calder and has created a Vezina race where only a few goaltenders are head-and-shoulders above their peers’ plummeting save percentages. Here’s the NHL Awards Watch for
11:56 AM ET The Original Six is well represented on Forbes’ latest list of the most valuable NHL teams, with the New York Rangers sitting on top. The Rangers were valued at $1.55 billion, followed by the Toronto Maple Leafs ($1.45 billion), Montreal Canadiens ($1.3 billion), Chicago Blackhawks ($1.05 billion) and Boston Bruins ($925 million).
11:01 AM ET ESPN News Services Vegas Golden Knights forward Ryan Reaves and Washington’s oft-suspended Tom Wilson renewed their fierce rivalry, with several brutal hits that ignited the crowd, including a vicious shoulder-to-shoulder connection that ended Wilson’s night in the second period of Tuesday night’s game. After trading shots and verbal jabs throughout the first
10:21 AM ET Dimitri Filipovic At some point before this week is up, every NHL team will have completed at least one third of their regular season schedule. Each passing game provides us with another checkpoint of confidence in our growing data set, but we’re still at the point of the campaign where the numbers
7:00 AM ET Emily Kaplan Greg Wyshynski SEA ISLAND, Ga. — The NHL held its board of governors meetings this week at a sprawling, slightly hard-to-get-to resort with a lobby featuring a 50-foot Christmas tree and a distinct scent that led attendees to believe somebody must have walked around the properties with a Bed Bath
5:44 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN SEA ISLAND, Ga. — The unanimous decision by the NHL Board of Governors to give Seattle an expansion franchise on Tuesday was a difficult one. Not for the NHL, which had heard the Seattle presentation and voted to approve them for the 2021-22 season within the span of 45 minutes
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2:00 PM ET Paul LukasESPN.com Close Sports journalism’s foremost uniform reporter ESPN.com columnist since 2004 Also blogs at uni-watch.com Thanks to today’s NHL board of governors vote, it looks like an NHL team is coming to Seattle. But what should that team be called, and what should it look like? That was the subject of