7:05 AM ET With more than a week since the 2021-22 NHL trade deadline, it’s given us a small taste of all the traded players suiting up for their new teams — for better or worse. For this week’s Power Rankings, we’ve added notes on how the players acquired this trade season have performed in

8:53 PM ET Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon missed Tuesday’s game at the Calgary Flames with an upper-body injury and was sent home, coach Jared Bednar said. Bednar didn’t specify MacKinnon’s injury to reporters but said his concern about it is “high.” Bednar said MacKinnon will get evaluated in Denver and that there’s no timeline

1:48 PM ET MANALAPAN, Fla. — NHL commissioner Gary Bettman downplayed the league’s appetite for implementing a postseason salary cap, saying he doesn’t consider teams’ usage of long-term injury reserve a “front-burner issue.” “Nobody in that room [of NHL general managers] believes that it’s being abused,” Bettman said Tuesday as the league’s annual spring general

6:55 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. The final day of the 2021-22 NHL regular season is exactly one month from today. There are many games to be played and playoff races to be run between now and then, but

10:44 PM ET Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario — Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk has died from an illness, the team said Monday night. He was 62. The team announced Melnyk’s death with a statement from his family that mentioned “an illness he faced with determination and courage.” The statement did not explain what the illness

7:05 AM ET The Premier Hockey Federation hosts its Isobel Cup final on Monday (9 p.m. ET, ESPN2), pitting the reigning league champion Boston Pride against the Connecticut Whale in their first-ever final appearance. The entire playoffs were held at the AdventHealth Center Ice in Wesley Chapel, Florida. Each of the PHF’s six teams were

7:00 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. If the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs began with teams in their current positions in the standings, the Carolina Hurricanes and Washington Capitals would not be matched up in the first round. But there

8:16 PM ET Michigan, complete with a star-laden roster that includes four of the top five picks in the 2021 NHL draft, dispatched Quinnipiac, 7-4, on Sunday in the NCAA hockey tournament, securing the final bid to next month’s Frozen Four. The Wolverines, seeded No. 1 overall, flexed their muscle in the Allentown, Pennsylvania regional,

11:14 AM ET The Premier Hockey Federation’s 2022 Isobel Cup semifinals and finals will be played Sunday (1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. ET, ESPN+) and Monday (9 p.m.) at the AdventHealth Center Ice in Wesley Chapel, Florida. It will be the first time the women’s hockey league will play its championship game outside of its

8:00 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. Following a wild, 10-game slate on Saturday, the NHL schedule-makers provide another eight matchups for us on Sunday. Leading the way are a pair of intradivisional clashes: the Colorado Avalanche visit the Minnesota