2:46 PM ET Radim Vrbata, who played 16 seasons in the NHL for seven teams, has announced his retirement. The 37-year-old from the Czech Republic scored more than 20 or more goals in a season six times, including a career-high 35 for Phoenix in 2011-12. He scored 31 for the Canucks in 2014-15 and made
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8:37 PM ET Emily KaplanESPN Washington Capitals winger Tom Wilson has been offered an in-person hearing with the NHL’s Department of Player safety. Wilson was ejected from Sunday’s preseason game against the St. Louis Blues for an illegal check to the head on Oskar Sundqvist. After the hit, Sundqvist laid motionless on the ice and
7:00 AM ET Emily KaplanESPN Who is the best team in the NHL now? Who will it be four years from now? Sidney Crosby has been the face of the league for more than a decade, but has 21-year-old Connor McDavid taken over? ESPN spoke to more than 50 players, front-office executives and coaches before
5:05 PM ET Los Angeles Kings right winger Dustin Brown broke his finger in the team’s last preseason game Saturday night and is out indefinitely. He suffered the injury when he was hit by a shot on the power play from center Anze Kopitar in a 3-0 loss to the Anaheim Ducks. Dustin Brown, out
7:00 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Greg Terrion, the former NHL forward who played six seasons for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1980s, has died. He was 58. The Maple Leafs confirmed Terrion’s death Saturday. Terrion, from Marmora, Ontario, had 93 goals and 150 assists in 561 NHL games in eight seasons with
4:34 PM ET Associated Press HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — How’s this for a slap shot to the ego: Sidney Crosby is not getting a road named for him in his home province. It seems one of hockey’s greatest players does not meet the criteria for commemorative naming because he has not yet retired. The Pittsburgh
2:00 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Does Joe Thornton watch the NHL standings? “A little bit,” he told me, sitting in his stall after a recent San Jose Sharks practice. Get ready for the upcoming hockey season with team-by-team previews, bold predictions, position rankings, prospect reports and fantasy nuggets. A new NHL season is here, and
7:00 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN With the 2018-19 season fast approaching, we’re running snapshots of all 31 NHL teams, including point total projections, positional previews, best- and worst-case scenarios and more. The Vegas Golden Knights couldn’t have done much better in their inaugural campaign. What do they have in store for an encore? How they
7:00 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN With the 2018-19 season fast approaching, we’re running snapshots of all 31 NHL teams, including point total projections, positional previews, best- and worst-case scenarios and more. It’s the first season without the Sedin Twins for the Vancouver Canucks. Where should expectations be set? How they finished in 2017-18: 31-40-11 (73
7:00 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN With the 2018-19 season fast approaching, we’re running snapshots of all 31 NHL teams, including point total projections, positional previews, best- and worst-case scenarios and more. The San Jose Sharks made the splash of the summer in trading for Erik Karlsson, in the hopes he can drive them to a