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Kim O’Reilly, CBS Sports Only a few weeks are left in the 2023-24 regular season, and the Dallas Stars appeared to be peaking at exactly the right time. The Stars are riding a seven-game winning streak, and their most recent outing was a 3-0 win against the Seattle Kraken on Saturday. Goaltender Jake Oettinger has

Open Extended Reactions Heading into the 2023-24 season, it was unclear what to make of the Nashville Predators. GM Barry Trotz had been busy in the offseason, and that included cutting ties with veteran centers Matt Duchene and Ryan Johansen. Andrew Brunette took over as the new head coach. The club hovered in the mushy

MILWAUKEE — Terry Crisp glanced at his caller ID sometime around Christmas, pressed “accept call.” He had a hard time believing what he was hearing. The phone number belonged to former Nashville Predators forward Cody Hodgson, who was in search of some advice from the team’s former broadcaster, the man with three Stanley Cup rings.

SUNRISE, Fla. — In a possible first-round NHL playoff matchup – should they make the it – the Detroit Red Wings showed some mettle. They scored in the first period and withstood a late charge Saturday by the Florida Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena, ultimately settling for a 3-2 loss in a shootout. “It’s definitely tough,” Wings’ David

Kim O’Reilly, CBS Sports There’s just under a month remaining in the 2023-24 regular season, but the Colorado Avalanche already look to be in peak postseason form. The Avalanche did finally see their nine-game winning streak come to an end on Tuesday with a 2-1 loss against the Montreal Canadiens. Still, star forward Nathan MacKinnon

Kristen Shilton, ESPN NHL reporterMar 29, 2024, 07:30 AM ET Close Kristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. Open Extended Reactions Another week closer to the end of the regular season — and start of the 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs — and we have another new team sitting atop the throne of the

Getty Images Welcome to the NHL Star Power Index: A weekly gauge of the players who are controlling substantial buzz around the league. When a player is included on this list it may not be a good thing — it means that they are capturing a large amount of the hockey world’s attention. These players are in

Rachel Doerrie, ESPNMar 28, 2024, 07:30 AM ET Close Rachel Doerrie is a professional data consultant specializing in data communication and modelling. She’s worked in the NHL and consulted for professional teams across North American and Europe. She hosts the Staff & Graph Podcast and discusses sports from a data-driven perspective. Open Extended Reactions The

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Brayden Point scored his 42nd goal of the season to break a second-period tie, Andrei Vasilevskiy made 23 saves, and the surging Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Atlantic Division-leading Boston Bruins 3-1 on Wednesday night. Tampa Bay also got goals from Mitchell Chaffee and Nikita Kucherov as the Lightning improved to

Getty Images The City of Alexandria, Va. announced Wednesday that negotiations aimed at luring the NHL’s Washington Capitals and the NBA’s Washington Wizards to relocate to the city have ended, and that a proposal to create a development district with a new arena for the two teams “will not move forward.” In a statement posted

Neil PaineMar 27, 2024, 07:40 AM ET Close Neil Paine writes about sports using data and analytics. Previously, he was Sports Editor at FiveThirtyEight. Open Extended Reactions Want to know how long it’s been since the last time a Canadian NHL team won the Stanley Cup? More than three-quarters of the nearly 1,000 current NHL

Yahoo Sports Teams that will shape the Draft: Chicago, Washington, New England hold keys to QBs To help kick off our ‘Teams that will shape the Draft’ series on the pod, Bleacher Report’s QB wizard Derrik Klassen joins Matt Harmon to breakdown the teams that hold the top three pick. The pair dive into the

Getty Images The Pittsburgh Penguins have their Jaromir Jagr bobbleheads back in their possession. In a press release, the team announced that the Jagr bobbleheads were found by a “special cargo recovery team” after they had been stolen earlier this month. “The Penguins were notified last week that a special cargo recovery team negotiated the

Tim Kavanagh, ESPN.comMar 25, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior editor for ESPN digital editorial. He’s a native of upstate New York. Open Extended Reactions Following the St. Louis Blues‘ Stanley Cup championship run in 2019, the team kept their fans engaged with playoff returns the following three seasons. An 81-point

Remember what it is like when the Detroit Red Wings make the playoffs? It was a tradition for a quarter of a century, a yearly given come April on par with taxes being due. Then the franchise sank into a rebuild, and missing the playoffs in 2017 turned into a seven-year event. Now it looks

Tim Kavanagh, ESPN.comMar 23, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior editor for ESPN digital editorial. He’s a native of upstate New York. Open Extended Reactions Saturday’s NHL schedule features a number of tantalizing matchups, whether it’s for playoff positioning — such as Edmonton Oilers–Toronto Maple Leafs (7 p.m. ET, NHL Power

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sonny Milano recorded his first hat trick in the NHL, Alex Ovechkin scored again and the Washington Capitals ended the Carolina Hurricanes‘ winning streak at five with a 7-6 shootout victory Friday night that could play a pivotal role in their playoff pursuit. Ovechkin’s goal was the 846th of his NHL career,

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