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USATSI It’s been quite the year for sports fans in South Florida. On Monday, the Miami Heat defeated the Boston Celtics in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Final and now advance to their second NBA Final in four seasons. That Game 7 win in Boston came just days after the Florida Panthers upset the

The Stanley Cup Final will include at minimum 18 skaters and a goaltender on each side, but just a few of them will have an outsized affect on the series and the discourse around it. Whatever Matthew Tkachuk and Sergei Bobrovsky do will get plenty of ink, as will Jack Eichel‘s transition from failing to

Ryan S. Clark Close Ryan S. Clark NHL reporter Ryan S. Clark is an NHL reporter for ESPN. Kristen Shilton Close Kristen Shilton ESPN NHL reporter Kristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. Jun 1, 2023, 07:00 AM ET From 32 teams starting the 2022-23 NHL season, the Stanley Cup playoffs have whittled

If you’re a Florida Panthers or Vegas Golden Knights fan, you have every reason to tune in when the Stanley Cup Final begins on June 3. You’re one of the lucky ones, congrats. For other hockey fans, it’s not always easy to get motivated to watch, especially if they are still mourning for their own

The correlation between goaltending excellence and NHL success tends to be strong, but it’s even stronger than usual this year. In the 2023 NHL playoffs, the top two goalies by save percentage — Adin Hill (.937) and Sergei Bobrovsky (.935) — have both led their teams to the Stanley Cup Final. It’s a statistical quirk,

Kristen Shilton, ESPN NHL reporterMay 30, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Kristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. Like 1990s moviegoers finding out Bruce Willis’ character really was dead all along, the Florida Panthers‘ dominant run to the Stanley Cup Final has taken us all by surprise. But what else do both of

Getty Images The Washington Capitals are hiring Spencer Carbery as their head coach, the team announced on Tuesday. Carbery spent the 2022-23 season as an assistant coach with the Toronto Maple Leafs after rising up through the minor leagues through the Capitals organization. “It’s a tremendous honor and privilege to be named the head coach

Associated Press May 28, 2023, 11:34 AM ET TAMPERE, Finland — Defenseman Kristian Rubins scored his second goal 1:22 into overtime to lead Latvia to a 4-3 victory over the United States and earn a bronze medal at the ice hockey world championship on Sunday. It’s the first top-three finish for Latvia at the tournament.

The Florida Panthers get to keep resting and waiting for their opponent in the 2023 Stanley Cup Final. While Matthew Tkachuk yucked it up with Shaq and the fellas, the Dallas Stars kept their season alive by beating the Vegas Golden Knights 4-2 in Game 5 to extend the series once more. With the series

Welcome back to Insights and Observations of the NHL playoffs, where only three teams now remain. This week, we look at how to build a winner, possession teams, Florida‘s physicality, defense handedness and the world championships. There’s no one way to build a winner When you look at how each team in the final four

Greg Wyshynski, ESPNMay 25, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. The Stanley Cup Playoffs are, if nothing else, about teachable moments. What a team learns one season can impact the next. If players, coaches and executives take the wrong lessons from the most pressure-filled time of the year, they

Getty Images When the Prince of Wales trophy was presented to Florida Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov, the team wasn’t concerned with being superstitious. The Panthers celebrated defeating the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Final by parading the trophy around.  “The last thing that we’re going to do is be superstitious about not touching it,”

Getty Images The 2023 Eastern Conference Final ended in the blink of an eye. The Florida Panthers completed their sweep of the Carolina Hurricanes with a dramatic 4-3 win in Game 4. Despite the brevity of the series, there is still plenty to talk about in the aftermath of the Panthers’ victory. Let’s take a

Just when you think Matthew Tkachuk cannot possibly get any more clutch, he finds new ways to amaze. In Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Final, Tkachuk did it again with his game-winning goal that sent the Florida Panthers to the Stanley Cup Final with a 4-3 victory. With 57 seconds remaining in the third

It’s no longer a Cinderella run. Matthew Tkachuk scored the game-winning goal with 4.3 seconds remaining as the Florida Panthers completed a sweep of the Carolina Hurricanes with a 4-3 win in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference final on Wednesday. Here are five takeaways from the Panthers’ series-clinching win, as Florida advanced to the Stanley Cup

Emily Kaplan, ESPNMay 24, 2023, 06:58 AM ET Close Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. Following one of his nine seasons coaching the Winnipeg Jets, Paul Maurice had an idea: Could he be more intentional about the video he showed his players? Video sessions are one of the most common teaching tools coaches employ.

The Vegas Golden Knights took a 3-0 stranglehold over the Dallas Stars on Tuesday with a 4-0 victory in Game 3 of the Western Conference final. Jonathan Marchessault, Ivan Barbashev, William Carrier and Alex Pietrangelo provided the offense for the Golden Knights, who moved to within one win of advancing to the Stanley Cup Final

The Carolina Hurricanes can’t seem to get to the Stanley Cup Finals despite their extremely solid style of play. (Getty Images) On paper, it looks the Carolina Hurricanes are firing on all cylinders in the Eastern Conference final. The Metropolitan Division winners have 56.72% of the shot attempts in the series, 58.92% of the expected