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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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,”
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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
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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
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