Month: April 2022

12:19 AM ET The Florida Panthers are Presidents’ Trophy winners for the first time in franchise history, finishing the regular season with 122 points. Florida claimed the NHL’s top spot in the standings on Thursday after defeating Ottawa 4-0 and seeing Colorado lose to Nashville 5-4 in a shootout. This was just the second season
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6:20 PM ET Memphis Grizzlies center Steven Adams has entered the league’s health and safety protocols and won’t play in Game 6 on Friday against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Grizzlies rookie forward Ziaire Williams is doubtful with right knee soreness. Adams, 28, had a strong season for the Grizzlies but hasn’t been a big factor in
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Apr 28, 2022 ESPN News Services Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin sat out Thursday night’s 5-1 loss to the New York Islanders because of an upper-body injury, coach Peter Laviolette said. Laviolette told reporters that Ovechkin, 36, moved well during Thursday’s practice but remains day to day. The coach wouldn’t say if Ovechkin would be
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Apr 27, 2022 ESPN News Services Giancarlo Stanton became the seventh-fastest player to reach 350 career home runs, launching a 417-foot drive to help the New York Yankees top the Baltimore Orioles 5-2 on Wednesday night. Stanton reached the milestone in 1,341 games. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the only players to reach 350
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9:48 PM ET Associated Press PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. — Minjee Lee shot an 8-under 63 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead over top-ranked Jin Young Ko after the first round of the Palos Verdes Championship. Coming off a third-place tie Sunday in the LA Open at Whilshire Country Club, Lee had a bogey-free
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5:42 PM ET The Arizona Coyotes are at a crossroads few NHL teams have ever come upon. And Xavier Gutierrez, the club’s president, CEO and alternate governor, wants to make something clear about what’s ahead: “The narrative that has been surrounding this organization, that’s not us,” he told ESPN recently. “We are taking actions that
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