12:43 AM ET Brianna Williams The box score doesn’t always tell the full story in professional sports, and such was the case in the regular-season finale between the Dallas Stars and Anaheim Ducks. Emergency backup goalie Tom Hodges, who played college hockey at SMU, stole the show in what ended up being a 4-2 Stars
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8:45 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. We’ve made it to the final day of the regular season — save for a makeup game between the lottery-bound Winnipeg Jets and Seattle Kraken on Sunday — with a number of questions
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
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
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
8:30 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. After the Vegas Golden Knights‘ elimination from playoff contention last night, the 16-team field for the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs is set — we just have to wait to see which teams fit
11:40 PM ET It’s official: Vegas will miss the NHL postseason for the first time in franchise history. The Golden Knights’ second-half collapse to this season left them with wafer-thin playoff hopes, and those were snuffed out entirely on Wednesday in a 4-3 shootout loss to host Chicago. To stay alive, Vegas would have had
6:05 PM ET ESPN News Services Nashville Predators star goaltender Juuse Saros, who suffered a lower-body injury on Tuesday night, will not play in the final two regular-season games, the team announced. Playoff-bound Nashville recalled goaltender Connor Ingram from Milwaukee of the American Hockey League to back up David Rittich as the Predators prepare for
9:00 AM ET If you are still fighting for ground in your fantasy league, congratulations and good luck. But the dust should be settled in most leagues at this stage, whether you are headed into the final two or three games in a rotisserie or points league, or in the final games of a two-week
12:25 AM ET New York star forward Artemi Panarin left the Rangers’ 4-3 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes Tuesday night with an upper-body injury. Linemate Andrew Copp (lower-body) also left in the second period and did not return for the Rangers, who settled for the No. 2 seed in the Metropolitan Division as a result