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1:45 AM ET Vegas Golden Knights goalie Robin Lehner accused NHL teams of medical malpractice, including offering benzodiazepines and Ambien to players without prescriptions. Lehner made the allegations on Twitter Saturday in an effort, he told ESPN, to call attention to the surgery stalemate between his former teammate Jack Eichel and the Buffalo Sabres. The

Jeff Curry / USA TODAY Sports After last season was truncated to 56 games because of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ll have a full 82-game NHL schedule to work with for the 2021-22 season. Fantasy hockey owners will have to be more focused on depth for a season that could feel like a grind after last

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — What just a few years ago was the most treacherous stretch of the NHL schedule for many teams has turned into a bit of breather of late. The days of being run by the physical, overpowering teams in San Jose, Anaheim and Los Angeles are long in the past. The

Getty Images The Arizona Coyotes plan to fully relax their game-day dress code for players, making them the first and only team in the National Hockey League to do so, according to an ESPN survey. According to a report by Emily Kaplan of ESPN, Exhibit 14, Paragraph 5 of the NHL‘s collective bargaining agreement states that

That considerable step forward for the Detroit Red Wings might be on hold for another season. Jakub Vrana, the club’s flashy new(ish) addition, requires shoulder surgery and will miss at least four months to recover from the procedure. Jeff Blashill said Red Wings F Jakub Vrana (shoulder) will have surgery, out minimum 4 months. —

7:00 AM ET Aesthetics matter in hockey. The player with the wooliest thicket of playoff beard competes with the might of King Leonidas of Sparta. The team that gets the spiffy state-of-the-art arena stands just a bit taller in its skates. I think the New York Islanders are a playoff team this season not because

Twitter Screen Capture / @NHL_PR The NHL took a significant step toward ending plastic waste in it’s uniforms on Monday, announcing all 32 teams will wear Adidas jerseys made of at least 50% recycled content. This is the first instance in which every NHL team will wear uniforms made out of recycled materials.  “We know that

We are less than two weeks from the start of the NHL season. Training camps and preseason action are underway. Every team has some semblance of hope entering the new season, unless you’re a Buffalo Sabres fan.  Over the course of the offseason, which teams have received the most love in the NHL futures betting

Special to Yahoo Sports First and foremost, it’s important to come to your draft prepared. That means having your research done, not only on the players you’re hoping to draft but also on your league settings. Your number of competitors, as well as whether you’re in a points or categories league, and to a lesser

7:00 AM ET Ranking the NHL’s goaltending tandems used to be a predictable process: Pencil in the Boston Bruins, Vegas Golden Knights, Dallas Stars and whoever the Tampa Bay Lightning have playing with Andrei Vasilevskiy at the top, and then figure out the rest. Unfortunately for us, and fortunately for the rest of the NHL,

Just like that, it’s time to start preparing for fantasy hockey draft season! We’re going to get a full, standard 82-game season out of the NHL — along with a return to normal division placement and the addition of the Seattle Kraken! — this year (hopefully, without any pandemic-related stoppages or changes), so we’re set

Evander Kane (9) continues to make headlines for the wrong reasons. (Stan Szeto-USA TODAY Sports) The hits just keep on coming for Evander Kane. After the NHL completed its investigation into claims that the San Jose Sharks winger was gambling on his own games, two more allegations have come to surface. Shortly following the examination

Getty Images A Black hockey player was on the receiving end of a racist gesture during the second period of a game in the Ukrainian Hockey League on Sunday. HC Kremenchuk forward Andrei Deniskin acted out the motion of peeling and then eating a banana towards American Jalen Smereck, who plays for HC Donbass. Following

12:45 AM ET Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. — The concourses of the Spokane Arena were jammed. The merchandise lines snaked through the crowds, causing bottlenecks as fans filed in for their first glimpse of the Seattle Kraken. There seems to be little doubt about the popularity and reach of the NHL’s newest franchise, even when

Special to Yahoo Sports The first few rounds of fantasy drafts are usually less about winning your league and more about not losing it. The top players on the board will, broadly speaking, cancel each other out if healthy, barring extraordinary production or underachievement. Leagues are actually won in the middle and later rounds, as

The 2021-22 NHL season is coming and it’s time to take a look at all 32 teams. Over the next month we’ll be examining best- and worst-case scenarios, looking at the biggest questions, breakout candidates, and more for each franchise. Today, we preview the New Jersey Devils. 2020-21 Season Review • Record: 19-30-7 (45 points)

Fanatics The creation of the NHL’s 32nd team, the Seattle Kraken, dates back to 2018 when the league officially granted the city a franchise. The Kraken will begin their inaugural season on Oct. 12 by visiting the league’s 31st team, the Las Vegas Golden Knights. Seattle hit another milestone in the last week when its

Getty Images The Pittsburgh Penguins will begin the season without their two future Hall of Fame centers to begin the upcoming season. On Thursday Pens general manager Ron Hextall announced Evgeni Malkin will miss the first two months of the 2021-22 campaign while rehabbing from offseason knee surgery. Sidney Crosby is expected to miss the first