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It was a festive atmosphere inside Montreal’s Bell Centre on Friday night as the Canadiens took the ice for their first home game in the Stanley Cup Final since 1993. But the party was quickly quieted by the Tampa Bay Lightning, who jumped on the Canadiens early en route to a 6-3 win in Game

11:43 PM ET The Tampa Bay Lightning moved within one victory of back-to-back Stanley Cup championships, with an emphatic 6-3 win at the Montreal Canadiens in Game 3 on Friday night. Miss any of the game? We’re here with the top takeaways. More: Cup Final schedule | Playoff Central Stanley Cup Final Game 3 in

7:00 AM ET After a bubble-encased 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs, we’re back to a more traditional setup for the 2021 postseason. However, there are some tweaks. Thanks to a one-year realignment, the first two rounds will be intra-divisional. Then, the four Cup semifinalists will be re-bracketed based on regular season record, with No. 1 facing

The Tampa Bay Lightning held serve at home in the first two games of the 2021 Stanley Cup Final and are halfway to repeating as champions. The series shifts to Bell Centre in Montreal on Friday, with the puck dropping at 8 p.m. ET for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final 2021. This will

6:59 AM ET The Tampa Bay Lightning are two wins away from winning their second Stanley Cup in nine months. But the series shifts back to Montreal, where the Canadiens will have the home crowd behind them to help claw back in. Check out the ESPN NHL Playoffs Daily to catch up every day of

A day after the Tampa Bay Lightning convincingly defeated the Montreal Canadiens in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, Andrei Vasilevskiy was snubbed by the NHL’s general managers.  Votes for the regular season awards had been tabulated and in a surprising outcome, Vasilevskiy was edged by Vegas Golden Knights netminder Marc-Andre Fleury for the

9:00 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman said it would be an honor to represent his homeland of Sweden in the Olympics, calling the men’s ice hockey tournament “as good as it gets on the international level.” That was in 2013. He still hasn’t gone. He might never go. Hedman

Getty Images Greeting sports fans, it’s Chris Bengel coming at you once again on this Thursday morning. I hope everybody is looking forward to 4th of July weekend with lots of sports action on the menu, which is something that we couldn’t say a year ago. I’ve spoken about the parity in the NBA playoffs

7:00 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Brayden Point swears nothing changes for him in the playoffs. “You try and play the same way,” said the Tampa Bay Lightning center, “but pucks have found their way into nets as of late.” That they have. Through 20 games, Point had 14 goals for the Lightning, while no

A considerably improved performance from the Montreal Canadiens wasn’t enough in Game 2. The Tampa Bay Lightning now lead the Stanley Cup Final 2-0 following a 3-1 victory over Montreal on Wednesday. Anthony Cirelli, Blake Coleman and Ondrej Palat found the back of the net for the Lightning, while Nick Suzuki claimed the solo marker

After memorable regular season for Edmonton Oilers, Connor McDavid wins Hart Trophy unanimously as NHL’s MVP Edmonton forward Connor McDavid, who authored a 105-point campaign in a shortened season for the high-flying Oilers, won the Hart Trophy Tuesday night, given to the NHL’s most valuable player.

The Tampa Bay Lightning are three wins from repeating as Stanley Cup champions as they hold a 1-0 lead in the 2021 Stanley Cup Final over the Montreal Canadiens. Game 2 is set for Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET from Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla. In three previous Stanley Cup Final appearances on the way

Mark Blinch On Tuesday night, the NHL announced their awards for this season, giving away the Hart Memorial Trophy and Vezina Trophy, among others. The regular season awards go out to top players in multiple categories. The award announcements came in the middle of the Stanley Cup Final, a series between the Montreal Canadiens and

Jerome Miron / USA TODAY Sports It was bad enough that the Chicago Blackhawks were without Jonathan Toews, their center and team captain, for the entire 2021 NHL season. What was worse, however, was that very few knew exactly what was wrong with him while he was out. Toews, a Blackhawk since 2007 and a three-time

EDMONTON, AB – MAY 8: Connor McDavid #97 of the Edmonton Oilers lines up for a face off during the game against the Vancouver Canucks on May 8, 2021 at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Andy Devlin/NHLI via Getty Images) Though it was a forgettable exit for Connor McDavid in the Stanley

USATSI The Tokyo Olympics are just weeks away, but due to COVID-19 pushing the summer Games back one year, the next Winter Olympics are not far off, either. One of the biggest questions still surrounding the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing is if NHL players will be present. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman still isn’t sure

What’s up sports fans, it’s Chris Bengel here once again to bring you all the sports news you can handle. One thing I’ve been wondering in recent weeks is if it’s just me or have there been more injuries around Major League Baseball than we’ve seen in a long time. If you’re like me and

7:00 AM ET UNIONDALE, N.Y. — The first $17 can of beer hit the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum ice roughly 20 seconds after New York Islanders forward Anthony Beauvillier‘s overtime goal. Then another. Then another. Then what seemed like an entire brewery’s inventory landed on the ice as the Islanders mobbed the overtime hero at