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COLUMBUS, Ohio — General manager Jarmo Kekalainen sees the overhaul of the Columbus Blue Jackets as “an opportunity to reload” rather than a rebuilding job. Whatever he wants to call it, the Blue Jackets already look different after the trade deadline. The offseason could bring even more big changes. When a March swoon made it

The 2021 Memorial Cup tournament has been canceled, marking the second straight year in which the storied Canadian junior hockey championship will not be handed out due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Canadian Hockey League made the announcement Tuesday in conjunction with the Western Hockey League, Ontario Hockey League and Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

7:43 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. The 2021 NHL trade deadline did not have the high volume of trades that characterized the past few seasons. But some significant players did change teams, including Taylor Hall to the Bruins, Kyle

The Minnesota Twins, Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Wild all postponed games on Monday following the police shooting of Daunte Wright on Sunday night. Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, died Sunday after a police officer shot him in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center during a traffic stop. The Brooklyn Center police chief said the shooting

The Vegas Golden Knights acquired forward Mattias Janmark from the Chicago Blackhawks as part of a three-team trade Monday that also involved the San Jose Sharks. Chicago received a second-round pick in the 2021 draft and a third-rounder in 2022, while Vegas also acquired a fifth-round pick and defenseman Nick DeSimone from San Jose, which

The Los Angeles Kings traded forward Jeff Carter to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for a 2022 conditional third-round pick and a 2023 conditional fourth-round pick, the teams announced Sunday night. Los Angeles will retain 50% of Carter’s salary, which runs through the 2021-22 season and carries a $5.272 million cap hit. A two-time Stanley

BOSTON — T.J. Oshie scored one of his two goals in the Washington Capitals‘ three-goal first period, and former Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara played his first game in front of Boston’s fans in the Capitals’ 8-1 victory Sunday night. Conor Sheary and Lars Eller each also scored twice, and Tom Wilson and Nic Dowd each

MONTREAL — The Canadiens have bolstered their blue-line depth ahead of the NHL trade deadline. The club acquired veteran defenseman Jon Merrill from the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday for a fifth-round draft pick in 2021 and minor league forward Hayden Verbeek. Merrill appeared in 36 games with the Red Wings in 2020-21, picking up

TORONTO — Auston Matthews scored three times to increase his NHL-leading goals total to 31, Jack Campbell made 27 saves to set an NHL record for consecutive victories to start a season and the Toronto Maple Leafs outlasted the Ottawa Senators 6-5 on Saturday night. Campbell became the first goalie with a victory in each

The Florida Panthers acquired defenseman Brandon Montour from the Buffalo Sabres for a 2021 third-round pick, the teams announced on Saturday. Montour, 26, is an offensive-minded right-shot defenseman who could help fill a void with Aaron Ekblad out for 12 weeks after undergoing surgery on a broken leg. The 25-year-old Ekblad was having a Norris

The Colorado Avalanche acquired goaltender Devan Dubnyk from the San Jose Sharks on Saturday in exchange for defenseman Greg Pateryn and a fifth-round pick in the 2021 NHL draft. Dubnyk, 34, gives league-leading Colorado some insurance in net behind starter Philipp Grubauer. Dubnyk has 26 games of Stanley Cup playoff experience during his career. This

The trades have started ahead of Monday’s deadline. At the absolute best of times, Kyle Palmieri was a player with 2.1 fantasy points per game (FPPG). Those best of times were the 2017-18 season in which he shadowed Taylor Hall at all times as Hall went on to win the MVP award in what stands

DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche reacquired Patrik Nemeth, trading a fourth-round pick to the Detroit Red Wings for the veteran defenseman. The teams announced the deal Friday night. Detroit received Colorado’s fourth-rounder in 2022. Nemeth spent two seasons in Colorado from 2017 to 2019. He had 25 points — four goals, 21 assists — in

Everything feels bigger in New York City, from the buildings to the personalities to the hype to the expectations. Adam Fox knew this was true years before he started playing for the New York Rangers. He grew up in Jericho, on Long Island, about 30 miles east of Madison Square Garden, where Fox would cheer

7:00 AM ET Ben ArledgeESPN.com Close Editor for NFL and NHL team, as well as a contributing hockey writer. Previously with ESPN The Magazine, ESPN Chalk and ESPN Fantasy. Joined ESPN in 2012. It has now been 10 years since an NHL goaltending legend last showed its unique face before disappearing from the scene for

NEW YORK — Colorado Avalanche defenseman Jacob MacDonald was suspended Thursday for two games without pay for an illegal check to the head on Minnesota Wild forward Ryan Hartman. The NHL’s department of player safety said the contact was avoidable for MacDonald, who approached Hartman on a back check and knocked him to the ice

Our old friend Trey Wingo recently called it “a tradition like no other” in sports: “grading a trade that includes draft picks before seeing what the picks actually turn into.” The instant gratification of the “trade grade” is very much the lifeblood of trade deadline coverage, especially in the NHL. There are obviously some things

The Pittsburgh Penguins have been on a quest to win at least one more Stanley Cup with Sidney Crosby. It has been a revolving door on his line as they try to figure it out. Since the start of the 2016-17 NHL season, Crosby has played with 83 different teammates. In the past 10 seasons,