2:23 PM ET Associated Press Andrew Brunette has a chance to be an NHL head coach now, taking over a Florida Panthers team that is off to the best start in franchise history. It should be a happy time. It is not. Brunette debuted as the replacement for Joel Quenneville as Florida’s coach Friday, running

Oct 29, 2021 ESPN staff According to a lawsuit filed in May by a former Chicago Blackhawks player — Kyle Beach, who came forward this week as “John Doe” from the suit — former video coach Brad Aldrich sexually assaulted him and another player during the 2010 Stanley Cup playoff run. In June, the Blackhawks

12:15 PM ET The NHL will not discipline Winnipeg Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff with respect to the Chicago Blackhawks‘ handling of sexual assault allegations against former video coach Brad Aldrich in 2010. Following an in-person meeting between Cheveldayoff and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on Friday, the league released a statement saying it has “concluded

10:29 AM ET Chicago Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz wrote a letter to the Hockey Hall of Fame asking for the name of former video coach Brad Aldrich to be removed from the Stanley Cup. In the letter, obtained by ESPN, Wirtz asks the Hall to “consider x-ing out” Aldrich’s name because “while nothing can undo

9:54 PM ET Joel Quenneville resigned Thursday as head coach of the Florida Panthers following a meeting with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman about his involvement in the Chicago Blackhawks‘ sexual abuse case. Assistant coach Andrew Brunette will take over on an interim basis, an NHL source told ESPN. Quenneville was in his third year as

5:15 PM ET Florida Panthers coach Joel Quenneville met with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman in New York for about two hours on Thursday concerning his involvement in the Chicago Blackhawks‘ sexual abuse case. Panthers team president Matt Caldwell and general manager Bill Zito also were at the meeting. Kyle Beach on Wednesday came forward as

9:46 AM ET The NHL’s newest team is putting a Seattle spin on one of the league’s oldest traditions. The expansion Seattle Kraken won at home for the first time on Tuesday night, thanks in part to goalie Philipp Grubauer‘s 23-save effort. He was named one of the “Three Stars of the Game,” a postgame

11:27 PM ET Florida Panthers coach Joel Quenneville was behind the bench for their 4-1 home win over the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night, but was nowhere to be found in the postgame news conference. Quenneville has a meeting scheduled with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman at 2 p.m. Thursday in New York to discuss his

6:31 PM ET Speaking in an emotional interview with TSN Wednesday night, the player referred to as John Doe in the investigation into sexual assault allegations involving the Chicago Blackhawks revealed himself as Kyle Beach. Beach spoke with in a 1-on-1 with reporter Rick Westhead a day after Blackhawks president of hockey operations Stan Bowman

5:21 PM ET Associated Press EAST MEADOW, N.Y. — The New York Islanders have signed tough guy forward Ross Johnston to a four-year contract extension. The team did not release contract terms in making the announcement on Tuesday. Johnston has seven goals and eight assists in 87 games with the Islanders. He has played in