San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane has been suspended for 21 regular-season games, without pay, for an established violation of, and lack of compliance with, the NHL/NHLPA COVID-19 Protocol, the National Hockey League announced on Monday.
Tampa Bay Lightning star Nikita Kucherov will be out indefinitely with a lower-body injury he suffered late in the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions' overtime win over the Washington Capitals last weekend.
The Columbus Blue Jackets have placed forward Max Domi on the injured reserve and he is expected to miss two to four weeks due to a rib fracture suffered in Saturday's game against the Seattle Kraken.
The Vancouver Canucks announced Monday that Travis Hamonic has been placed on a temporary leave of absence.
Alex Belzile of the Montreal Canadiens and Leo Komarov of the New York Islanders have been placed on waivers.
Keep updated on all the injury news and roster updates from around the NHL with daily Ice Chips.
Dallas Stars forward Radek Faksa has been fined $5,000 for slashing Tim Stützle of the Ottawa Senators during Sunday night's game, NHL Player Safety announced Monday.
Artemi Panarin scored in overtime, Igor Shesterkin stopped 40 shots, and the New York Rangers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-1 on Monday night.
Jamie Drysdale scored the overtime winner for the Anaheim Ducks in a 3-2 victory over the host Calgary Flames on Monday. Drysdale tapped in a Troy Terry pass at 3:26 of extra time.
Claude Giroux and Travis Konecny scored, Carter Hart stopped 24 shots and the Flyers spoiled former coach Dave Hakstol’s return to Philadelphia with a 6-1 win over the Seattle Kraken on Monday night.
Jordan Kyrou had two goals and two assists, and the St. Louis Blues scored five times in a 5:07 span of the second period for a 7-4 victory over Arizona in the Coyotes’ home opener Monday night.
Bryan Hayes, Jamie McLennan and Jeff O’Neill discuss the NHL’s emergency call up rules after the Maple Leafs were forced to play a game with emergency backup goalie.
Playing in front of a home crowd for the first time in a year and a half, the Flames say that they are excited to feed off of the energy from the fans. Scoring twice on 47 shots in their first game, Calgary hopes that knowing their individual roles entering the season can help elevate their production.
After winning his first Rocket Richard Trophy and finishing second in Hart Trophy voting last year, Auston Matthews is looking for more of the same this season.
Winnipeg Jets captain Blake Wheeler has entered the NHL’s COVID-19 protocols, the team announced Monday.
The New York Rangers are in town, marking Toronto’s first regular-season game against a team from outside of Canada in 18 months.
Senators winger Tim Stützle is just 19 years old. If the NHL’s opening weekend is any indication, he’s already a problem for the rest of the Atlantic Division. Travis Yost has more.
Chris Tierney scored twice to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 3-2 victory over the Dallas Stars Sunday night.
Alexander Kerfoot had a goal and an assist while Michael Bunting scored his first for his hometown team as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Ottawa Senators 3-1 on Saturday night.
Connor McDavid scored three goals as the Edmonton Oilers defeated the Calgary Flames 5-2 on Saturday night for their second straight win to start the season.
Jasper Weatherby scored the tying goal in his NHL debut and William Eklund set up the go-ahead score in his first career game to lead the San Jose Sharks to a season-opening 4-3 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday night.
Alexis Lafreniere's third-period goal proved to be the winner as the New York Rangers claimed a 3-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.
Thomas Greiss made 40 saves to assure the lead the Detroit Red Wings took early in the second period stood up in a 3-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night.
It would be easy to overreact to some of the things we've seen through the opening games of the NHL season but there are some things that need to be addressed. TSN Hockey analyst Mike Johnson explains.
It hasn't been a positive start to the season for the Canadiens and losing makes it even harder to eliminate the outside negativity surrounding the team. That's Hockey discusses the challenge of filtering out all of the noise and focusing on winning.
Mike Hoffman was at practice on Monday and could make his Habs debut Tuesday against the Sharks on TSN. Hoffman has been out since suffering a lower-body injury in training camp, and is expected to help Montreal's struggling power play that has gone 0-for-11 to start the season.
Lightning head coach Jon Cooper told reporters Monday that Nikita Kucherov's injury is 'definitely not a day-to-day thing' and the team is waiting for more information to definitively determine how much time he will miss. SportsCentre catches you up on some of the news around the hockey world you may have missed.
To mark his return to the lineup, here is a statistical look at Auston Matthews’ career so far and where he sits among some of the best goal scorers of all-time in the early stages of his NHL journey.
Former NHL winger Ilya Kovalchuk will serve as general manager for the Russian Olympic Committee at the 2022 Olympics. Former NHL stars Sergei Gonchar, Sergei Fedorov and Evgeni Nabokov will serve as assistant coaches under head coach Alexei Zhamnov, along with former KHL forward Alexei Kudashov.
With Auston Matthews back in the fold, Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe will finally be able to see him join Mitch Marner and Nick Ritchie on the top line. Keefe believes Ritchie is making his presence felt and he has great potential to do good things alongside skilled players like Matthews and Marner.
Goaltender Petr Mrazek (groin) and defenceman Justin Holl (illness) are both unavailable for Toronto’s tilt against Ottawa on Saturday, and the Leafs’ are so close to the flat $81.5 million salary cap ceiling they can’t afford to recall another player. Kristen Shilton has more.
DJ Smith explains how Brady Tkachuk's physicality ups the intensity and emotion for the Senators and says that he'll most likely make his season debut on Thursday against the Sharks.
Jack Campbell has never made more than 26 starts in an NHL year, but adapted well to a heavier workload last season when Frederik Andersen was sidelined with a knee injury. Campbell finished with a 17-3-2 record and .921 save percentage.
It’s been 585 days since the Canadiens last hosted a full or nearly full Bell Centre. As a result the players, new and old are full of anticipation for tonight’s home opener. Fuelled by the experience of not being able to witness the celebration in the streets following Montreal’s conference final victory over the Golden Knights in late June. John Lu has more.
The Calgary Flames might not be the most fun or entertaining team to watch this season, with lots of dumping-and-chasing, puck battles in the corners, and stifling neutral zone play expected, but as they start their first full season in the Darryl Sutter 2.0 era, the coach has made one guarantee. Salim Valji has more.
With his contract status out of the way, Brady Tkachuk can now turn his focus on getting in game shape and doing his part to helping the Senators win. That's Hockey discusses how long it could be until he is fully ready and the expectations on him this season.
D.J. Smith says Brady Tkachuk looked great at practice this morning but they still aren't sure when he could play his first game. He joked it's like waiting on Christmas morning to open your present even though you already know what it is.
The Boston Bruins and defenceman Charlie McAvoy have agreed to an eight-year contract extension that carries an average annual value of $9.5 million.
Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin has been suspended one game for roughing Tampa Bay Lightning forward Mathieu Joseph Thursday night, NHL Player Safety announced Friday afternoon.
Ondrej Palat scored with 2:17 left in overtime, lifting the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 7-6 comeback victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night.
The Ottawa Senators couldn’t have asked for a better start to the regular season. Not only did they beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Thursday, they signed Brady Tkachuk to a seven-year contract extension hours earlier.
Victor Olofsson and Anders Bjork scored 2:01 apart in the second period, and the Buffalo Sabres followed a tumultuous summer with a stunning season-opening 5-1 win over the injury-depleted Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night.
Brandon Tanev scored his second goal into an empty net with 1:21 left, and the Seattle Kraken beat the Nashville Predators 4-3 Thursday night for the first victory in the expansion franchise's second game.
The Washington Capitals have claimed defenceman Dennis Cholowski off waivers from the Seattle Kraken.
With Brady Tkachuk and the Ottawa Senators finally ending their stalemate, the TSN Hockey insiders break down Tkachuk's contract and the structure that led to both sides agreeing to get it done. As well, the insiders talk about Shea Weber's injury status, the length of long lists required for the Olympics and more.
With Samuel Montembeault allowing five goals on 36 shots in the Habs' second-straight loss to start the season, TSN's director of scouting Craig Button joins Lindsay Hamilton to discuss the Habs' early struggles.
Petr Mrazek allowed three goals in two periods of play for the Maple Leafs but as TSN's director of scouting Craig Button explains, he wasn't to blame for the team's woes, saying that the defensive woes of years gone by reared their ugly head. Button breaks down the Leafs poor coverage, the Sens' strong play, and more.
Brady Tkachuk would have loved nothing more than to be playing with his teammates Thursday night, but knowing he would be joining them soon enough felt great.
Brady Tkachuk spoke to the media about his new seven-year extension with the Senators, and what it means to him to be able to keep playing in Ottawa.
Bryan Hayes and Dave Feschuk are joined by TSN Hockey insider Pierre LeBrun to discuss Shea Weber’s LTIR status with the league.
As the Sabres get set to open up their regular season, they do so with the Jack Eichel saga still hanging over their heads. Hockey Insider Chris Johnston joins TH with the latest on that front.
Senators head coach D.J. Smith speaks ahead of the team's tilt against the Maple Leafs about his group's leadership, naming Thomas Chabot, Connor Brown, Nick Paul, and Nikita Zaitsev as 'difference makers' as they will rotate through the season wearing the 'A' on their sweaters.
Elias Pettersson and J.T. Miller scored shootout goals and Vancouver scored four times in the second period to lead the Canucks past the Philadelphia Flyers 5-4 on Friday night.
Kyle Turris scored the shootout winner as the Edmonton Oilers started the season off with a victory, defeating the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 on Wednesday.
Brady Tkachuk has been named an alternate captain for the second straight season. The forward recently signed a seven-year, $57.5 million contract on Thursday and will dawn the "A" when he returns to the lineup.
The tattoo runs along Kevin Hayes’ left forearm, a permanent reminder of what the Philadelphia Flyers center is missing, a solemn quote overlaid by a thick, script J for his late brother that serves as an indelible tribute to a bond he believes isn’t broken, merely changed.
Mason McTavish became the youngest player in Anaheim history to score a goal as the Ducks opened the season with a 4-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday night.
William Nylander scored the winner early in the third period and Jack Campbell made 31 saves as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Montreal Canadiens 2-1 in the season-opener for both teams Wednesday.
While the fisticuffs never materialized, the Washington Capitals made a season-opening 5-1 victory against the division-rival New York Rangers memorable Wednesday night for Alex Ovechkin’s 731st and 732nd goals and Hendrix Lapierre’s first.
TSN Hockey analysts Craig Button and Mike Johnson join That's Hockey for a new edition of 7 in 70, where they have 70 seconds to break down the biggest question marks surrounding each Canadian team heading into the season.
To say Jesse Pollock is excited for the Jets season would be an understatement, but his Stanley Cup dreams may not be that far fetched. Craig Button and Mike Johnson try to settle him down with reasonable expectations for Winnipeg, while Corwin McCallum pushes back on some of their additions that some might call “salary dumps” by other teams.
The Flames discuss how excited they are to play in front of a full capacity crowd in their season opener on Saturday in Edmonton, and the key ingredients to getting off to a better start this season compared to previous years.
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