2:45 PM ET The Los Angeles Kings have fired coach John Stevens after a little over one season, the team announced Sunday. He’s the first NHL coach to lose his job this season. Willie Desjardins, 61, has been named the new head coach. The Kings are tied with the Panthers for the fewest points in

8:12 PM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Nashville Predators signed goaltender Pekka Rinne to a two-year contract extension worth $10 million, keeping the Vezina Trophy winner under contract through 2020-21. General manager David Poile announced the extension Saturday, on Rinne’s 36th birthday, a couple of hours before the Predators were set to host

4:02 PM ET The Tampa Bay Lightning have re-signed forward Yanni Gourde to a six-year deal worth almost $31 million, general manager Julien BriseBois announced Friday. The 26-year-old Gourde, who has four goals and 12 points through 12 games this season, will make an average of $5.166 million under the new deal. “We are very

5:23 PM ET With no teams having played more than 14 games this season, we still have a small enough sample size to have some quirky stats. Here are a few of them that have fantasy implications. Catch more than 180 NHL games streaming live this season on ESPN+. Click here for the upcoming schedule

1:00 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The first month of the 2018-19 season is in the books, which means it’s time for hasty reactions and prognostications about the NHL awards. Here are my picks for the NHL awards as we hit November, as a Professional Hockey Writers Association voter and through a dozen conversations with those

10:30 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN This year marks the 25th anniversary of EA Sports’ “NHL 94,” which is considered the greatest 16-bit hockey video game by everyone who apparently never got around to playing “NHL 95.” “NHL 94” is the game that featured real players and real teams. It’s the game whose simplicity made it

12:10 AM ET Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. — Patrick Eaves is in the Anaheim Ducks‘ lineup for the first time this season following a health scare that cost him much of the 2017-18 season. Eaves returned for a game Thursday night against the New York Rangers. He played in only two games last season. He

4:40 PM ET The Boston Bruins sent struggling forward Ryan Donato to the Providence Bruins on Thursday. In 11 games this season, Donato has one goal and has had trouble at both ends of the ice. With center David Backes close to returning from a concussion, Donato was likely to get less time on the

2:22 PM ET Associated Press HELSINKI — NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said that the NHL is planning to play a season-opening game in Prague and another two games in Stockholm next season. Bettman, speaking before the Florida Panthers and the Winnipeg Jets played the first of their two regular-season games in Finland on Thursday, said

4:09 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Slava Voynov, a former Los Angeles Kings defenseman who was suspended indefinitely by the National Hockey League and served jail time for domestic assault, has formally applied for reinstatement to the league. “We’re in the process of an intense factual investigation,” deputy commissioner Bill Daly told Dennis Bernstein of The