5:58 PM ET Akim Aliu accepted an apology from Tony Deynzer, the minor league equipment manager who dressed up in blackface at a team Halloween party in 2011, and requested that Deynzer does not lose his job, the Colorado Eagles said in a statement on Tuesday. Aliu met with the owner of the Colorado Avalanche‘s

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10:06 PM ET Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, out with a core muscle injury, has skated with his teammates the past six days, coach Mike Sullivan said Monday. The Penguins were in Calgary, where they play the Flames on Tuesday night, and Crosby practiced with the team there while he continues his rehabilitation process from

7:19 PM ET The Chicago Blackhawks concluded their investigation of abuse allegations against suspended assistant coach Marc Crawford, and announced Monday that he will resume assistant coaching duties on Jan. 2. The Blackhawks said in a statement that they believe Crawford has taken steps to deal with his behavior and has learned from his past

6:44 AM ET Associated Press MINSK, Belarus — Vladimir Tsyplakov, a Belarusian hockey player who spent six seasons in the NHL with the Los Angeles Kings and the Buffalo Sabres, has died. He was 50. The Belarus Hockey Federation said Tsyplakov died Saturday, without giving any information on the circumstances of his death. The federation

5:58 PM ET Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Sabres have assigned under-performing second-year center Casey Mittelstadt to the minors. The demotion to Rochester of the AHL was made Sunday, coming a day following a 3-2 overtime loss at the New York Islanders in which Mittelstadt was a healthy scratch for the third time

2:57 PM ET As injuries pile up on the Philadelphia Flyers, so do the losses. Hours after placing forward Travis Konecny on injured reserve Sunday, the Flyers were wiped out in Winnipeg, losing 7-3 to the Jets. It was Philadelphia’s second loss in two days and third on a three-game road trip. Konecny, Philadelphia’s leading

12:19 PM ET St. Louis Blues forward Alexander Steen will return from a 16-game absence Saturday against the Chicago Blackhawks, according to the team. Steen has not played since suffering a high ankle sprain in a collision on Nov. 6 against the Edmonton Oilers. The 35-year-old Steen has zero goals and five assists in 17

4:57 PM ET Philadelphia Flyers forward Oskar Lindblom has been diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer, and is expected to miss the rest of the 2019-20 season, the team announced Friday. Lindblom, 23, will undergo further testing and evaluation next week and begin treatment immediately thereafter. The cancer was diagnosed by

12:00 PM ET Is it just easier to quickly recap which NHL coaches haven’t been replaced? I feel like that might be faster. We’ve had more in a season before, to be sure. There were seven midseason coaching changes just last year. Although there were zero the year before, so obviously this ebbs and flows.