The best players in the league will head to South Florida for the skills competition and 3-on-3 game. The initial rosters for each team were announced on Thursday, Jan. 5. Eight players were named to each All-Star team, with one representative from each NHL club. There are three more spots available per team; those players will be selected through a voting system. MORE: When is the 2023 NHL All-Star Game?...
About two hours before the Giants closed out a 3-0 win over the Mets in New York, Sammon facetiously tweeted a prediction of the game’s outcome. MORE: Top 50 players in the playoffs Yup, Sammon was exactly right. Mets ace Syndergaard and San Francisco ace Madison Bumgarner were locked in a 0-0 pitchers’ duel through seven innings. Mets manager Terry Collins then lifted Syndergaard, who had thrown 108 pitches. Addison Reed pitched out of a jam in the eighth....
First, New York traded defenseman Griffin Reinhart to the Oilers for the 16th and 33rd overall selections. MORE: NHL Draft blog: Rumors, analysis and more | See all 30 first-round picks The Islanders selected Mathew Barzal of the WHL’s Seattle Thunderbirds with the 16th pick. Later Friday, they flipped the 33rd pick, along with the 72nd overall selection, to the Eastern Conference champion Lightning for the 28th pick. The Isles selected Quebec junior Anthony Beauvillier with No....
In Friday’s first round, just two Canadians were among the first 10 picks while NHL teams took two players from the city of St. Louis. Four players from the Gateway City were selected in the first 15 picks, matching Canada’s total. MORE: Sights from the NHL Draft | Draft results | Trade rundown Forward Pierre-Luc Dubois, taken by the Blue Jackets with the No. 3 pick, was the first Canadian player selected....
Of course, scouting and drafting isn’t an exact science, which we all know is a pretty trivial statement to begin with. The art of assessing, evaluating, selecting and then finally developing draft picks into quality players varies in both scope and execution from team to team. Hindsight has allowed us to identify the good from the bad, and for every questionable pick teams may have made in early portions of a draft, there are plenty of examples of later-round redemption....
In a forward-heavy draft, the night became one of defensemen, with four blue liners going in the top 11. Some players, such as Moritz Seider and Kirby Dach, unexpectedly jumped up from their projected positions while others, such as Cole Caufield and Peyton Krebs, dropped far down. What wasn’t surprising was that a record number of Americans were taken in the first round, many of them from the U.S. National Team Development Program....
As expected, Jack Hughes went to the New Jersey Devils with the first overall pick, and the New York Rangers took an impressive consolation prize in Finnish power winger Kaapo Kakko. The rollercoaster ride of emotion and excitement soon followed, with several top-rated prospects going either higher (Kirby Dach to the Blackhawks at No. 3) or lower (Cole Caufield to Montreal at 15th overall) than assumed. NHL Draft 2019: Complete list of picks for rounds 1-7...
Yet beyond his tough-guy image, Parros has always displayed a keen mind and big heart. A graduate of Princeton University, Parros was named one of the smartest athletes in sports earlier this year by The Sporting News. As for his charitable side, each November in recent years, he’s publicly shaved off his mustache as part of the charity event “Movember.” Drafted by the Kings in the eighth round (No. 222 overall) in the 1999 NHL Draft, Parros instead opted to attend Princeton, where he earned an economics degree and was a three-time ECAC All-Academic team member....
Here’s a breakdown on which players may be available and what organizations may do as July 1 approaches. Forwards With the New York Rangers re-signing winger Chris Kreider and the New York Islanders acquiring and re-signing center Jean-Gabriel Pageau, two of the notable free-agent forwards came off the board. Taylor Hall still tops the list as the best forward and sole superstar among this summer’s UFAs. The decline in his production this season, possibly linked to season-ending knee surgery a year ago, could adversely affect his free-agent value....
The league and the U.S.-based TV station have agreed to a seven-year deal beginning in 2021-22 through the 2027-28 season, ESPN announced on Wednesday. Here are the details from the joint press release: ESPN said it will announce plans for additional studio programming at a later date to join “In The Crease,” a daily NHL highlights show on ESPN+ featuring Linda Cohn and Barry Melrose. It is highlighted by: exclusive coverage of the Stanley Cup Final on ABC in four of the seven years of the agreement, with the ability to simulcast/megacast on ESPN+ and additional ESPN networks; the return of live NHL action to ESPN networks with 25 exclusive national regular-season games on ABC or ESPN; 75 national regular-season games per season produced by ESPN that will stream exclusively on both ESPN+ and Hulu; half of the Stanley Cup Playoffs on ABC and ESPN each season; and coverage annually of NHL’s Face-off (opening night games), the NHL All-Star Game and Skills Challenge, plus other NHL special events each season....
Tampa Bay’s Steven Stamkos, New Jersey’s Taylor Hall and Calgary’s Johnny Gaudreau all are headed for extended absences, their teams revealed Wednesday afternoon, in the aftermath of Tuesday’s slate of games. MORE: Notable players with new teams in 2016-17 Most notably, Stamkos, tied for third in the NHL with 20 points, is “out indefinitely” with a torn meniscus in his right knee. Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman broke the news to reporters Wednesday afternoon after Stamkos was sent back to Tampa from the team’s road trip for further evaluation....
Draft analysts have had extra time to tinker with their lists for all 31 teams, although there has always been one constant — Alexis Lafreniere. The winger from Canada has been the consensus No. 1 overall pick for close to two years and it’s expected the Rangers will add the generational talent. That, or they’ll trade away the pick. MORE: When is the NHL Draft 2020? | Who is Alexis Lafreniere?...
Boston netted two power-play goals in 28 seconds at the beginning of the final frame to take charge of the game en route to a 5-2 win. The momentum began to turn in the first minute of the period when Jordan Staal received two minutes for boarding and the Bruins capitalized on the man advantage. Marcus Johansson scored off a rebound in front of the net to tie the game 2-2....
The Sharks center notched a hat trick in San Jose’s 4-2 win over the Avalanche on Tuesday night, giving his team a 2-1 lead in the Western Conference second-round series. After being held goalless the first two games of the series, Couture netted his seventh, eighth and ninth markers of the playoffs. Couture kicked off the scoring with 4:36 left in the first period as he corralled a loose puck near the net and backhanded a shot past Avs netminder Philipp Grubauer....
Keep an eye on the Islanders, Predators and Golden Knights, who all move up the list, and on the Senators, Ducks and Canucks, who head the opposite direction. Here is the complete breakdown of Sporting News’ NHL power rankings for Week 8. PREVIOUS POWER RANKINGS: Preseason | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 NHL Power Rankings 8....
This is the second time that NHL teams have created alternate sweaters incorporating past color schemes and logos into them. They were a major success during 2020-21 when Adidas first made the announcement of the unique sweaters. As always when it comes to jerseys, some are fantastic and should be worn more often than they will be, and there are others that should never have been created in the first place....
As the second round of the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs gets underway, the eight clubs eliminated in the opening round head into the offseason with various issues to address. A week after the Ducks and Kings became first-round casualties, speculation persisted over the future of Ducks winger Corey Perry and Kings defenseman Drew Doughty. During an appearance last week on Calgary’s Sportsnet 960, NHL insider Elliotte Friedman wondered if Perry might be approached about waiving his no-movement clause....
The NHL has had to do a balancing act between the stricter Canadian COVID-19 regulations and the looser U.S. regulations after it moved its season into Canada six months ago. “We have always had the issue of differing rules in different jurisdictions, so it’s not a new challenge,” Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly told the Associated Press in an email. “(We are) navigating choppy waters the best we can,” Daly added....
This year’s deadline feels different than years past, though. For the first time in recent memory, there’s a very good chance a bona fide superstar changes teams . Erik Karlsson’s situation in Ottawa has deteriorated to a point of no return. Nine months ago, as he willed the Senators within one win of the Stanley Cup Final, it was unfathomable to imagine Karlsson, arguably the world’s best player not named Crosby or McDavid, playing anywhere else the rest of his career....
