Sep 6, 2018 Associated Press CHICAGO — December is the earliest the NHL board of governors will vote on potential expansion to Seattle, NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said Thursday. Daly also called it “doubtful” any formal vote will happen on a Seattle franchise between meetings in October and December. Seattle Hockey Partners, the group
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9:35 AM ET With the NHL season around the corner, teams are evaluating what they have from a prospect standpoint. Here’s a look each Atlantic Division team’s prospect pool heading into the 2018-19 NHL season, including the top players in the system. Some ground rules: • Players listed as “A” prospects project more comfortably into
3:28 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Columbus Blue Jackets have given contract extensions to their three top hockey executives. The team announced the multiyear extensions Thursday for president of hockey operations John Davidson, general manager Jarmo Kekalainen and assistant general manager Bill Zito, who was promoted to associate general manager. Terms weren’t
2:42 PM ET Associated Press UNIONDALE, N.Y. — The Nassau County Industrial Development Agency has approved tax breaks for the New York Islanders‘ planned renovations at NYCB Live’s Nassau Coliseum. Newsday says completion of $9.95 million in interior upgrades would allow the hockey team to return to Uniondale for three years while a new arena
Sep 6, 2018 Associated Press CHICAGO — With the exception of seeing a couple of concerts and getting some family time, Vladimir Tarasenko had a boring summer. A surgically repaired left shoulder kept Tarasenko on the shelf and unable to train much, but now the St. Louis Blues winger hopes to be back on the
4:17 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Alvin Brian “Ab” McDonald, who played 14 NHL seasons and scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal for the Chicago Blackhawks in 1961, has died. He was 82. McDonald died Tuesday night, according to Blackhawks. The forward played 762 regular-season and 84 NHL playoff games followed by two seasons in
2:51 PM ET Emily KaplanESPN The group hoping to bring the NHL to Seattle will make a pitch to the executive committee of the league’s Board of Governors at a meeting in New York on Oct 2. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan will take part in the presentation. The Oak View Group confirmed the meeting on
2:06 PM ET The fight for or against penalty minutes as a standard category for fantasy hockey has become pretty polarizing. But the holdover from traditional fantasy hockey setups that riles me up even more is the delineation between left wing and right wing. Why on earth do we do this? There is no difference
5:31 PM ET Alex Ovechkin took the Stanley Cup to the World Cup and a Washington Nationals baseball game. He even slept with the thing. It was all fine with the NHL, except for one thing: keg stands. Oh my god Alex Ovechkin was doing keg stands out of the Stanley Cup in the middle
1:12 PM ET Ah, the pivot. Any conversation about a deep, contending NHL team seems to hinge on the centermen the team boasts down the middle. So it goes in the NHL, so it goes for fantasy hockey. If you want to compete for the title, you are going to need a few good centers.