In finally competitive Stanley Cup Final, Vegas may still have edge on FloridaVideo
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The sour taste in the aftermath of their Stanley Cup Final Game 3 loss is gone for the Vegas Golden Knights, who quickly moved on to enjoying the nearby ocean breeze. They’re breathing easily up 2-1 on the Florida Panthers in the series, knowing they have...
Panthers win in OT, stop Golden Knights from running away with Stanley Cup Final
SUNRISE, Fla. — Overtime. Season on the line. The Florida Panthers keep finding ways to flourish in those moments. And for the first time, they’ve won a game in the Stanley Cup Final. Carter Verhaeghe snapped a wrister from the slot into the high back of the net 4:27 into...
Panthers in familiar territory, once again down 0-2 in Stanley Cup FinalVideo
SUNRISE, Fla. — The Panthers need a miracle. Again. Such is the story of Florida’s season, and it makes all the sense in the world that the plot has reappeared in the Stanley Cup Final. The Panthers needed a furious late-season push just to get into the playoffs as the...
Journeyman goalie Adin Hill has Vegas Golden Knights up 2-0 over Florida in the Stanley Cup Final
SUNRISE, Fla. — Adin Hill heard fans chanting his name following one big save after another. He tried not to listen too intently. After all, many in the crowd almost certainly didn’t know who Hill was as recently as a few months ago. An unheralded 27-year-old journeyman goaltender is now...
Panthers confident goalie Sergei Bobrovsky will rebound in Stanley Cup FinalVideo
SUNRISE, Fla. — Sergei Bobrovsky entered the Stanley Cup Final as the hottest goaltender in hockey. He backstopped the Florida Panthers to the final by winning 11 of his last 12 games and stopping 438 of 465 shots in that span, for a 1.95 goals-against average and .942 save percentage....
Flyers trade controversial defenseman Ivan Provorov in 3-team dealVideo
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Flyers traded Ivan Provorov, sending away the defenseman who boycotted the team’s Pride night as part of a three-team trade that included the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Los Angeles Kings. The seventh overall pick of the 2015 draft, the 27-year-old Provorov lands in Columbus and...
Vegas’ Jack Eichel shows ‘it hurts to win’ bouncing back from big hit in Stanley Cup Final
LAS VEGAS — Matthew Tkachuk lined up Jack Eichel and leveled him with a thunderous open-ice hit that sent him to the ice. Eichel quickly skated off and retreated to the locker room, for more than a few moments putting a scare into the Vegas Golden Knights late in the...
Golden Knights take 2-0 lead in Stanley Cup Final with lopsided win over Panthers
LAS VEGAS — Jonathan Marchessault scored twice and started an early blitz that chased the NHL’s hottest postseason goalie, and Adin Hill continued his stellar play as the Vegas Golden Knights seized control of the Stanley Cup Final with a 7-2 victory over the Florida Panthers to take a 2-0...
Canadiens sign Cole Caufield to 8-year, $62.8M extensionVideo
MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens signed Cole Caufield to an eight-year, $62.8 million contract extension Monday. The deal, which will pay the 22-year-old winger an average annual salary of $7.85 million, runs through the 2030-31 season. Caufield scored 26 goals and added 10 assists in 46 games in 2022-23 before...
Ducks hire former Leafs, Islanders assistant Greg Cronin as head coachVideo
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Anaheim Ducks hired veteran NHL assistant and AHL head coach Greg Cronin to be their new head coach. Ducks general manager Pat Verbeek announced the decision Monday to hire the 60-year-old Cronin, who will be a first-time NHL head coach. Cronin has 12 years of experience...
Golden Knights’ Alex Pietrangelo gives new meaning to sacrifice, on and off the ice
LAS VEGAS — Alex Pietrangelo spoke of sacrifice Sunday, and what it takes for a hockey player to continue his journey this far into an NHL season. With the Vegas Golden Knights up 1-0 in the Stanley Cup Final against the Florida Panthers, all the players’ personal lives are put...
Goalie Adin Hill leads Vegas past Florida in feisty Game 1 of Stanley Cup Final
LAS VEGAS — Zach Whitecloud scored from long range with just over 13 minutes left, after Adin Hill made arguably the best save of the playoffs, and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Florida Panthers, 5-2, Saturday night in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final. Whitecloud’s goal put Vegas...
Bettman: NHL still committed to keeping Coyotes in Arizona after arena referendum failedVideo
LAS VEGAS — Commissioner Gary Bettman said the NHL is still committed to Arizona after Tempe voters rejected a referendum for a Coyotes arena. Bettman said the team is looking at other areas around Phoenix for a long-term home. “It’s a good market, and if we can make it work,...
Russians in Stanley Cup Final trying to focus on hockey amid country’s war in UkraineVideo
LAS VEGAS — Sergei Bobrovsky insists he has not thought about where he would take the Stanley Cup if he and the Florida Panthers win it. He hasn’t been this close before. Countryman Ivan Barbashev has, celebrating in Moscow with the trophy in 2019. After the Cup was banned from...
Jack Eichel making most of 1st postseason for Golden Knights
LAS VEGAS — Jack Eichel didn’t know what to expect when the NHL playoffs began in April. He just knew he was eager to experience the postseason for the first time in his eight-year career — and what a time it’s been for him. Eichel is a major reason the...
Golden Knights out to fulfill owner’s quest to win Stanley Cup in 6th yearVideo
LAS VEGAS — Drivers were directed to the overflow parking lot Thursday morning, and a line at least 30 deep waited and hoped to get into the Vegas Golden Knights’ practice. It was like 2018 all over again. Except this Knights team is no longer the unexpected first-year expansion club...
2 teams, 2 chances at titles: Heat, Panthers ready for their finals tests
DENVER — They were No. 8 seeds. They barely got into the playoffs after up-and-down regular seasons. They had to face the No. 1 overall seeds in Round 1 of the postseason. They had to win Games 7 in Boston just to keep their seasons alive. They are Eastern Conference...
Maple Leafs hire Brad Treliving as team’s new general manager
TORONTO — Brad Treliving has a new job. And the Maple Leafs have a new plan. Treliving was hired as Toronto’s general manager Wednesday, less than two weeks after firing Kyle Dubas. The 53-year-old Treliving left the Calgary Flames in April following nine seasons that included five playoff appearances and...
For the Florida Panthers, celebrations getting a bit hairy, just in time for the Stanley Cup Final
SUNRISE, Fla. — The tradition of hockey’s playoff beard goes back to at least the mid-1980s, with the Detroit Red Wings widely credited with beginning the facial hair phenomenon. The playoff beard rub might have started last month by accident. Go back to April 26, when the Florida Panthers staved...
The Stanley Cup Final between Vegas, Florida will end with 1st-time NHL champion
Jon Hamm is excited for this Stanley Cup Final between the Florida Panthers and Vegas Golden Knights. “Stoked, man,” the actor and noted hockey fan said. “I live in L.A., so that’s a half-hour flight away for me.” The NHL is pumped, too. Even though the ratings likely will sag...
Spencer Carbery hired as Capitals coach after 2 seasons as Maple Leafs assistantVideo
Spencer Carbery got his start in coaching in the minors with the Washington Capitals watching closely. They liked what they saw, and on Tuesday they brought him back to fill the job they envisioned he would get. The Capitals hired Carbery as their next coach, ending their search for Peter...
Golden Knights advance to 2nd Stanley Cup Final after Game 6 win over Stars
DALLAS — William Karlsson scored two goals and had an assist as the Vegas Golden Knights advanced to their second Stanley Cup Final with a 6-0 rout Monday night over the Dallas Stars, who had extended the Western Conference Final to six games after losing the first three. William Carrier,...
Ty Dellandrea scores twice in 3rd, Stars stay alive with Game 5 victory over Golden KnightsVideo
LAS VEGAS — Ty Dellandrea scored twice in a 1:27 span midway through the third period, and the Dallas Stars beat the Vegas Golden Knights, 4-2, on Saturday night to stay alive in the Western Conference Final. The Stars escaped elimination for the second game in a row and head...
Keith Tkachuk’s words came at just the right time for PanthersVideo
SUNRISE, Fla. — Keith Tkachuk never played a game for the Florida Panthers and hadn’t recorded an assist at the NHL level in nearly 13 years. That is, until March 29. That’s the day he might have had the biggest helper in Florida’s season — by calling the Panthers “soft,”...
Golden Knights aim for closeout win vs. Stars in Western Conference finalVideo
LAS VEGAS — Alec Martinez was part of the 2014 Los Angeles Kings team that erased a 3-0 first-round series deficit and beat Joe Pavelski and the San Jose Sharks in Game 7. Pavelski and coach Pete DeBoer were the centerpiece of a Sharks comeback from 3-1 down in the...
