8:17 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final is scheduled for Saturday night between the Boston Bruins and the St. Louis Blues at Enterprise Center, with the series tied 1-1 What can we expect when the action shifts to St. Louis? Here’s a little primer in today’s Stanley Cup Playoffs Daily.
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11:25 AM ET Emily KaplanESPN The NHL cleared Washington Capitals star Evgeny Kuznetsov after a video surfaced Monday of him sitting next to a table on which there are two lines of white powder in what appears to be a hotel room. NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said in a statement Friday that the league
8:49 AM ET Emily KaplanESPN ST. LOUIS — When Vladimir Tarasenko first came to St. Louis in 2012, the Blues assigned their prized Russian winger a translator to help him interact with the media. Tarasenko, who grew up in the Siberian plains, knew a little English from school, but by no means was conversational. He
10:59 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN ST. LOUIS — Laila Anderson pointed the microphone at St. Louis Blues forward Alexander Steen. He had done plenty of interviews after winning the Western Conference championship on home ice that night, but this one was clearly the most meaningful. “So tell me, Alex, what emotions are going through your
9:37 PM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — Blues forward Oskar Sundqvist has been suspended for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final for delivering an elbow to the head of Boston Bruins defenseman Matt Grzelcyk. The NHL’s department of player safety announced the suspension Thursday after a hearing with Sundqvist, who was assessed only
8:02 PM ET Associated Press The National Women’s Hockey League is canceling plans to add a pair of Canadian teams for the 2019-20 season for now and making clear it is open to doing what’s best for women’s hockey. Even if that means a new league. The NWHL made clear in a post on its
5:30 PM ET Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Nikita Zaitsev has asked for a trade for personal reasons, and the team is willing to oblige him. TSN first reported the trade request, and Maple Leafs general manager Kyle Dubas confirmed it to NHL.com. “That will be our goal, to try to find a fresh start for
10:04 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Putting Gary Bettman in charge of hockey labor peace is like putting a cat in charge of rodent safety. There are just some things that are inherently, instinctually part of an individual’s comportment, and there’s nothing they can do to suppress the urges. For Bettman, it’s labor stoppages. The only
1:57 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN BOSTON — St. Louis Blues defenseman Carl Gunnarsson walked up to the urinal in the team’s dressing room before Game 2’s overtime against the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night, where his coach Craig Berube was already doing his business. This would become the postseason’s most unlikely setting for one of
5:34 PM ET Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Sharks are bringing back former Florida Panthers coach Bob Boughner as an assistant, the team announced Wednesday. Boughner will replace Rob Zettler on coach Peter DeBoer’s staff. He oversaw the defense on the Sharks when they went to the Stanley Cup Final in 2016 and