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Coaches kicking their players in the back, or punching them in the head, is unacceptable. That’s a given, right? That a superior assaulting a subordinate is wrong? That these power dynamics discourage any pushback, because the victim risks a reduction in playing time, outright removal from the team or escalating physical and mental abuse under

Colorado forward Gabriel Landeskog returned from a lower-body injury Thursday night, and scored in the first period of the Avalanche’s 3-2 win at the Montreal Canadiens. It was his fourth goal of the season, at 12:57 of the first, coming off a feed from Mikko Rantanen. He beat Canadiens rookie goaltender Cayden Primeau with the

CALGARY, Alberta — The Calgary Flames have a deal for a new downtown arena, a 35-year agreement that keeps the NHL club in the city for that time. The team, the city and the Calgary Stampede rodeo signed an agreement Thursday to replace the 36-year-old Scotiabank Saddledome. The new 19,000-seat arena is to cost more

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GRAND MARAIS, Minn. — A Minnesota judge on Wednesday ordered that a former member of the “Miracle on Ice” U.S. Olympic hockey team should be committed to a secure treatment facility, saying the hockey star is mentally ill and dangerous. Mark Pavelich, 61, of Lutsen, was charged with felony assault in August for allegedly beating

San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane was fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for elbowing Capitals defenseman Radko Gudas, the league announced Wednesday. With just over five minutes left in Tuesday night’s game in San Jose, Kane and Gudas were skating to a loose puck. Kane raised his right glove, clutching the butt

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Mark Borowiecki fights crime on his days off from hockey. The Ottawa Senators defenseman stopped an attempted robbery Sunday while out for a walk, Vancouver police said. He saw someone breaking into a parked car and confronted the person before wrestling away what was taken. The alleged thief got away but

The Montreal Canadiens placed goaltender Keith Kinkaid on waivers Tuesday, prior to their 4-2 victory over the New York Islanders. Kinkaid, 30, entered the season as the primary backup to Carey Price but struggled in five starts. Kinkaid, who helped lead the New Jersey Devils to the postseason in 2017, was just 1-1-3 for Montreal,

The New Jersey Devils have fired head coach John Hynes after a disastrous start to the season. The Devils are 9-13-4 this season. Their 22 points are second-fewest in the NHL, and they have the fourth-worst record over the past two seasons at 40-54-14. Hynes, who was hired in 2015, finishes his Devils stint with

Chicago Blackhawks assistant coach Marc Crawford will be away from the team as it conducts a “thorough review” of “recent allegations that have been made regarding his conduct with another organization,” the team said Monday. The decision comes two days after the New York Post published a story in which former NHL player Sean Avery

A month in the NHL can repaint the awards picture. The November portrait still has some of broad strokes that we can see in this latest NHL Awards Watch. But there’s a lot of blue and gold that has been erased from the image. A month ago, the Buffalo Sabres were the talk of the

MONTREAL — Montreal Canadiens great Guy Lafleur had additional surgery just two months removed from quadruple bypass heart surgery in late September. The team disclosed the Nov. 28 procedure at the request of Lafleur’s family and said it removed a lobe on one of his lungs, as well as lymph nodes. The statement said that

BOSTON — David Backes couldn’t help but smile after scoring his first goal of the season in his first game in nearly a month. The Bruins right wing picked a big moment against a big-time rival to accomplish the feat. Backes scored the deciding goal with 9 minutes, 31 seconds left in the third period,

Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Brian Dumoulin will miss at least eight weeks following surgery to repair lacerated tendons in his left ankle, the team announced Sunday. The Penguins said Dumoulin had a successful surgery at UPMC Presbyterian on Sunday. He was injured in the first period of Saturday’s 5-2 loss to the St. Louis Blues. This

The Bruins rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat the New York Rangers 3-2 in overtime on Friday in Boston. But not everyone on the team was completely happy. Left wing Brad Marchand appeared dazed by an elbow from the Rangers’ Jacob Trouba late in the second period but wasn’t pulled from the ice by

Bill Peters is out as Calgary Flames coach, four days after a former player came forward and said the coach directed racial epithets toward him while they were in the minors 10 years ago. At a news conference Friday afternoon, Flames general manager Brad Treliving said Peters resigned. “Effective immediately, Bill Peters is no longer

BUFFALO — Calgary Flames coach Bill Peters acknowledged in a letter of apology on Wednesday that he used offensive language in dealing with a Nigerian-born player 10 years ago in the minors. General manager Brad Treliving confirmed receipt of the letter, which was first posted on Twitter by TSN, a Canadian sports cable network, during

The Boston Bruins signed forwards Charlie Coyle and Chris Wagner to long-term extensions, the team announced Wednesday. Coyle’s deal is for six years, running through the 2025-26 season, with an annual cap hit of $5.25 million. Coyle, 27, is now the Bruins player under contract for the most years. Brad Marchand‘s deal runs through the