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The Tampa Bay Lightning will carry on without their captain for now. Head coach Jon Cooper said Victor Hedman is unlikely to play in their first-round NHL playoff series against the Montreal Canadiens.
Ottawa is down 2-0 in its best-of-seven series with the East’s top seed after a 2-0 loss in the opener was followed by a thrilling, chaotic 3-2 double-overtime decision. Game 3 is set for Thursday at Canadian Tire Centre.
Porter Martone was playing college hockey last month. Now he’s making a difference in the NHL playoffs. Youth is being served early in the first round, along with some relative newcomers contributing. Anaheim’s Troy Terry scored in his postseason debut nearly a decade into his professional career, Montreal’s Juraj Slafkovsky had a hat trick in just his sixth playoff game and Utah’s Logan Cooley will go down in history as the first Mammoth player with a playoff goal.
The Kontinental Hockey League’s Shanghai Dragons named Ilya Kovalchuk president on Tuesday. The position is a newly created role under the team’s updated management structure.
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Melbar Entertainment Group has announced the production of “Frozen in Time: The Bill Barilko Story,” a documentary about his life and mysterious disappearance. Tuesday’s announcement marks the 75th anniversary of Barilko’s Stanley Cup-winning goal, which also turned out to be his last.
The Nashville Predators missed the Stanley Cup playoffs for the second year in a row this season but the players aren’t expecting wholesale changes.
Just one year removed from capturing the Presidents’ Trophy, the Winnipeg Jets must now prove its aging roster is still good enough to compete for a Stanley Cup, while facing an NHL landscape that no longer views them as legitimate contenders.
The Edmonton Oilers got a boost in Monday’s opener of their first-round playoff series against the Anaheim Ducks with the return of Leon Draisaitl.
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ resilience carried them to a surprise playoff berth. Sidney Crosby and company will need to rely on it, maybe a lot of it, if they want their postseason appearance to be more than a token cameo.
The Tampa Bay Lightning will try to do something they haven’t managed all season in Game 2 — stay out of the penalty box.
While it’s a small sample size, Connor Ingram’s first career playoff victory boded well for the Edmonton Oilers.
Linus Ullmark finished with 43 saves on a night where Ottawa was on its heels early. He turned aside 27 efforts off Carolina sticks in Saturday’s 2-0 defeat in Game 1.
Nothing came easily Monday night for the Eastern Conference’s top seed against the Ottawa Senators in a 3-2 double-overtime win that secured a 2-0 lead in their first-round series.
Kasperi Kapanen’s second goal of the game, scored with under two minutes left in the third period, lifted the Edmonton Oilers to a 4-3 come-from-behind win over the Anaheim Ducks in the opening game of their first-round playoff series on Monday.
Wyatt Johnston had two unusual goals, Matt Duchene scored a tiebreaking power-play goal and had an assist, and the Dallas Stars beat the Minnesota Wild 4-2 in Game 2 on Monday night to even their first-round Western Conference series.
Jason Dickinson and Kasperi Kapanen each scored two goals to power the Edmonton Oilers over the Anaheim Ducks 4-3 in Game 1 Monday night.
A pair of goals from Troy Terry in the frame has helped the Anaheim Ducks to a 3-2 advantage over the Edmonton Oilers through two periods in Game 1.
Jordan Martinook scored the winner in double overtime for the Carolina Hurricanes as they defeated the Ottawa Senators 3-2 on Monday to take a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven, first-round series.
Ottawa Senators goaltender Linus Ullmark has made a series of big saves in the Game 2 against the Carolina Hurricanes, but through the first four periods of the game the biggest was turning away a Jordan Martinook penalty shot late in the first overtime period to keep the game tied 2-2.
Jason Dickinson and Kasperi Kapanen found the back of the net late in the first period to give the Edmonton Oilers a 2-0 lead over the Anaheim Ducks through the first period in Game 1 of their best-of-seven series.
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