Expecting to permit its players to return to team facilities in the coming weeks, the NHL on Monday issued a 21-page memo to its teams and pla…
TAMPA, Fla. - As the NHL considers its plans to resume the season, "where" has been as big of a question as "how." If the NBA is zeroing in on…
The NHL continues to consider options to finish this season, with the selection of multiple "hub" cities appearing to offer the most likely pa…
NHL officials watched the NFL draft closely because they will be holding a similar exercise, perhaps as early as June. "I believe we can condu…
The prize was Sidney Crosby, one of the greatest prospects anyone had seen since Wayne Gretzky. And the method to determine who got him, as be…
PITTSBURGH - We are going to attempt to talk about hockey today, with a disclaimer that there are more important things to worry about in our …
PHILADELPHIA - Chris Greenwell took his boy Brandon to the Wells Fargo Center one night in November to meet the most famous person on the Phil…
SAN JOSE, Calif. - The first rule about having superstitions is to not to refer to them as being superstitions. They're called routines, in ca…
SEATTLE - When we spoke over the summer, Sportsnet commentator Don Cherry discussed how he hoped to work a game in Seattle during the 2021-22 …
LOS ANGELES_Ahead of training camp this season, Todd McLellan and Ilya Kovalchuk met for lunch near the Kings practice facility in El Segundo.…
SEATTLE - A number of readers wrote in last week inquiring about my statement that NHL players make salaries comparable to other major profess…
ST. LOUIS - Hanging on a hook in Tom Stillman's office at Enterprise Center is a black checked sport coat, a bit wrinkled and with a faint sme…
PRAGUE - The words coming out of Dominik Kubalik's agent's mouth didn't quite compute. Yes, Kubalik understood the Kings had traded his rights…
Follow the latest news and scores from the NHL, as the 2019-20 season begins.
NEWARK, N.J. - Connor Carrick has enough self-awareness to know exactly where he stands with the New Jersey Devils. The 25-year-old Chicago-ar…
As the puck drops on a new NHL season, here are six players to watch.
The Stanley Cup champion came from the Western Conference last season, but the winner wasn't one of the teams that dominated early in the deca…
Eastern Conference teams had four of the top five regular-season records in 2018-19, but only the Boston Bruins went far in the Stanley Cup pl…
St. Louis had better dig in for its repeat bid.
Getting swept in the first round wasn't enough to knock the Tampa Bay Lightning off the mountaintop.
CHICAGO - Andrew Shaw knows how fortunate he was to play in Montreal, a gorgeous cosmopolitan city with a Canadiens franchise that is the most…
SEATTLE - If you think the most pointless thing in sports is evaluating a general manager's decision the day after he makes it, you're close. …
FRISCO, Texas - For so long, Joe Pavelski envisioned his future in San Jose. It was the team that plucked him as a seventh-round draft pick in…
This summer is far more exciting for New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers fans than last season. As expected, the Devils picked center Jack …
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Tod Leiweke and Jerry Bruckheimer spent the final morning of the NHL draft enjoying breakfast with their incoming Seattle fr…
The frozen ponds of Canada are where many kids first lace up skates and establish NHL dreams. When the season turns and the ice briefly melts,…
ST. LOUIS - He didn't know me, but he knew where I was going. "Because she gets quite a few visitors," said Charles Smith, the grounds foreman…
