8:08 PM ET Emily KaplanESPN NHL teams part of the Jack Hughes sweepstakes will find out a lot earlier if they’ll get a chance to draft the highly-regarded American center at No. 1. The league announced it was moving its draft lottery up to April 9, on the eve of the Stanley Cup playoffs. The
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7:00 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN To paraphrase Billy Zane in “Titanic,” some teams just seem to “make their own luck,” through their given style of play or the skill of their players. But “puck luck” is very much a thing in the NHL: Sometimes teams and players benefit from it, and other times the puck
2:04 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has rejected Philadelphia Flyers forward Jakub Voracek‘s appeal of his two-game suspension, citing “clear and convincing evidence” that justified the ban for interference on New York Islanders defenseman Johnny Boychuk. Last Saturday in an eventual 5-2 win for the Flyers, Boychuk quickly skated towards Voracek and
7:00 AM ET Emily KaplanESPN The Arizona Coyotes began the season with Josh Archibald, Jakob Chychrun, Christian Dvorak and Alex Galchenyuk sidelined with injuries. Then the first hiccup: Starting goalie Antti Raanta‘s lower-body ailment kept acting up. Defenseman Jason Demers would go on to miss 47 games, and winger Michael Grabner would miss 41. Even
1:02 PM ET The NHL said Tuesday that Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly did not direct an anti-gay slur at referee Brad Meier during Monday night’s game. The league conducted an investigation after microphones picked up a phrase during a game at Toronto against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Online videos appeared to implicate Rielly,
10:20 AM ET With the races for the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs hitting the home stretch, we identify the teams we’d like to see square off in the Eastern Conference final and the Western Conference final. (Spoiler alert: Multiple writers would be into a Sharks-Jets matchup, of which we’ll get a preview on Tuesday, streaming
1:11 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The NHL is investigating an anti-gay slur picked up by microphones during a game at Toronto against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday night after videos posted online indicated that it might have originated with a Maple Leafs player. “The NHL is aware of reports that a homophobic slur was
5:00 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The referee-in-chief of the Federal Hockey League resigned on Monday after a physical altercation between the owner of the Elmira Enforcers and on-ice officials that caused police intervention and the cancellation of the game after just one period on Sunday afternoon. “We accepted Eugene Binda’s resignation. We appreciate what he
9:28 AM ET Greg Wyshynski Dimitri Filipovic Close Special to ESPN Dimitri Filipovic writes about the NHL and other hockey leagues. He lives in British Columbia. Like the rest of us, Minnesota Wild coach Bruce Boudreau was in awe of the Tampa Bay Lightning, a team that has already clinched a playoff spot and continues