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8:20 AM ET NHL Insiders The second round of the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs is set to begin on Saturday, with the Boston Bruins hosting the New York Islanders. On Sunday, the Carolina Hurricanes take on the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Colorado Avalanche begin their series against the Vegas Golden Knights. The North Division

MONTREAL (AP) — Jesperi Kotkaniemi scored at 15:15 of overtime and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Saturday night to force Game 7 in the first-round series. Corey Perry and Tyler Toffoli also scored and Carey Price made 41 saves in front of the first Canadian hockey crowd since the start

8:00 AM ET The first round of the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs was a wonderful appetizer to the remaining courses, the first of which begins on Saturday with the Boston Bruins hosting the New York Islanders at 8 p.m. ET. As a reminder, this season’s first and second rounds are intradivisional. Once the postseason division

The Wild just wouldn’t give up against the Golden Knights, including in Game 7. Eventually, Vegas overwhelmed its resilient opponent, and now the Golden Knights will face the Avalanche in a heavyweight Second Round Series. Key Golden Knights mattered in Vegas’ 6-2 Game 7 win, but Mattias Janmark also enjoyed a big night vs. the

Getty Images NHL great Wayne Gretzky has set a lot of records and he just added another to his resume. His rookie card recently sold for $3.75 million, which is the highest price ever for a single hockey card. Heritage Auctions sold the Gem Mint 10 rated 1979 O-Pee-Chee Gretzky rookie card for the whopping

There is just one game on tonight’s NHL slate — the only Game 7 that has been featured in this first round of the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs. Let’s get to it. All betting odds provided by BetMGM I don’t know what it is about the Minnesota Wild that brings out the worst in the

7:00 AM ET Corban Knight didn’t love where he was in himos hockey career. It was 2019, and Knight — then 28 — had just spent a season bouncing between the AHL’s Lehigh Valley Phantoms and NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers. “Constantly being called up and down, it definitely takes a toll on you,” Knight said. “And

It had all been a breeze for Ron Hextall and Brian Burke. Seen as a massive undertaking, or a weight-of-the-hockey-world sort of responsibility, orchestrating one last meaningful postseason run in the Sidney Crosby-Evgeni Malkin era was instead a chance to kick back, enjoy the catering, and to be entertained by a successful organization’s charge toward

8:30 AM ET The first one who will tell you that Seth Jones had a disappointing 2020-21 campaign is Seth Jones. “I didn’t have the greatest season. I’m not sure why,” the Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman said. After garnering so much attention for his iron-man defensive play in the 2020 postseason bubble, when he averaged

6:31 AM ET Wednesday brought us three more elimination games, but only two teams were sent packing. The Minnesota Wild kept their series with the Vegas Golden Knights alive with a massive home win to force the first Game 7 of the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh Penguins and Florida Panthers saw their

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8:00 AM ET Alex Thomas and Scott Jones remember being knocked down by the riot officers’ shields, falling to the pavement on Seymour Street in Vancouver. It was June 2011, moments after the Canucks lost Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final on home ice to the Boston Bruins. The city was on fire.

For the third consecutive game, the Predators and Hurricanes went to overtime. This time, the result was different. Jordan Staal barely tapped the puck past Nashville goalie Juuse Saros early in overtime to give the Hurricanes a 3-2 win and a 3-2 series lead heading back to Nashville for Game 6. Martin Necas tied the

As he marched down the 18th fairway on Sunday, en route to a historic PGA Championship, Phil Mickelson was mobbed by a mass of maskless golf fans. They shouted encouragement, patted him on the back and lived up a moment to savor. If there were any safety worries, they centered on Phil getting knocked over,

7:00 AM ET Three teams — the Florida Panthers, Edmonton Oilers and Minnesota Wild — were up for elimination on Monday. Two survived. Edmonton nearly lived another day, but Winnipeg knocked the Oilers out in triple overtime, sealing a series sweep. The loss sets up another long offseason ahead for Connor McDavid & Co. Tuesday

Triple overtime — triple OT; that’s what the Edmonton Oilers and Winnipeg Jets needed to settle Game 4. And their series. It turns out that the Oilers didn’t roll over against the Jets in Game 4 — come on, there was triple OT. Nonetheless, the Jets did pull off that sweep, eliminating the Oilers in

6:34 AM ET Farewell to the Washington Capitals and St. Louis Blues, two recent Stanley Cup champions who were eliminated on Sunday. Three more teams — the Florida Panthers, Minnesota Wild and, quite shockingly, the Edmonton Oilers — could join them after Monday night’s action. Check out the ESPN NHL Playoffs Daily to catch up