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7:00 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. Tonight’s NHL schedule is not one that will have an outsized influence on the playoff races — the Chicago Blackhawks visit the Florida Panthers and the Anaheim Ducks head to Alberta to take

Mar 9, 2023 Associated Press BOSTON — The Bruins shut down NHL scoring leader Connor McDavid. They kept Leon Draisaitl off the scoresheet too. It still wasn’t enough to beat the Oilers on Thursday night. The Oilers escaped a scare when McDavid limped off the ice late in their 3-2 win over the Bruins —

6:27 PM ET Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — All-Star left wing Kirill Kaprizov is expected to miss the next three to four weeks with a lower-body injury, the Minnesota Wild announced Thursday. Kaprizov was hurt in the game on Wednesday at Winnipeg, when 6-foot-7 Jets defenseman Logan Stanley collided with him as he protected

10:30 AM ET ESPN staff NHL fans have had this Thursday, March 9, circled on their calendars for quite some time. Tonight’s game featuring the Boston Bruins against the Edmonton Oilers (7:30 ET, exclusively on ESPN+ and Hulu) is not just a rematch of the 1990 Stanley Cup Final — although perhaps it is a

9:00 AM ET When Bo Horvat was traded to the New York Islanders earlier this season, he lamented the end of his time with the Vancouver Canucks. “I thought I was going to be a Canuck for life, to be honest with you. Things just didn’t work out that way,” he said, before signing a

7:00 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. Both the Minnesota Wild and Winnipeg Jets appear to be on their way to the postseason. FiveThirtyEight projects the Wild’s playoff chances at 93%, with the Jets’ at 65%. Amid quite a bit

7:35 AM ET Monique Lamoureux-Morando knows there will be a day when she and her son will walk around the Ralph Engelstad Arena concourse at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. Her son will see the display honoring his mom and aunt, Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson, as the school’s two greatest women’s hockey players, not

7:05 AM ET Boston Bruins winger Brad Marchand has seen his legacy redefined during in his 14-year NHL career. Early on, he was hockey’s preeminent pest who earned his “Little Ball of Hate” moniker with injurious plays and trash talk that was just as perilous for opponents. He’s still an elite agitator — no one

7:00 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. There are some who say that the Western Conference playoff race is merely about the order in which the eight teams currently in playoff position will finish. The numbers from FiveThirtyEight back that

7:05 AM ET Ryan S. Clark Close Ryan S. Clark NHL reporter Ryan S. Clark is an NHL reporter for ESPN. Kristen Shilton Close Kristen Shilton ESPN NHL reporter Kristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. The NHL trade deadline has passed, and with it the chance for Stanley Cup contenders to put

12:31 AM ET ESPN News Services BUFFALO, N.Y. — Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid scored twice to push his NHL-leading goal total to 54 and set a career high with 124 points during a 3-2 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Monday night. McDavid continued making a case to win his third Hart Trophy for

7:00 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. Now that the trade deadline has passed, the rush to the 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs begins in earnest. Each day until the final day of the regular season, we’ll bring you updated playoff

9:00 AM ET The NHL trade deadline has passed, which means the stretch run to the Stanley Cup playoffs is here. Is there enough time left to change the NHL awards race dynamics? Many of last month’s front-runners are still in the lead for these awards. Welcome to the NHL Awards Watch for March. We’ve

11:50 PM ET ESPN News Services Timo Meier, acquired by the New Jersey Devils last week, had a goal in his debut as New Jersey won 5-4 in overtime over Arizona Coyotes on Sunday. Meier, acquired from the San Jose Sharks in a blockbuster trade that involved nine players and four draft picks last Sunday,

5:14 PM ET The Tampa Bay Lightning benched three star players during the third period of their 5-3 loss to the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday afternoon. Forwards Steven Stamkos, Nikita Kucherov and Brayden Point didn’t appear in the third period for Lightning, who trailed the Sabres 4-1 entering the period. The loss in Buffalo left

4:49 PM ET ESPN News Services BOSTON — Linus Ullmark made 24 saves, helping the NHL-leading Boston Bruins past Patrick Kane and the new-look New York Rangers 4-2 on Saturday. Patrice Bergeron, David Pastrnak, Charlie Coyle and Tomas Nosek scored, and new addition Tyler Bertuzzi had an assist in his debut as the Bruins cruised

6:49 PM ET Associated Press DENVER — Defenseman Cale Makar has been cleared to return to the Colorado Avalanche lineup after two different hits over an 11-day span landed him both times in the league’s concussion protocol. “Ready to go,” Makar told reporters about his plans to play Saturday in Dallas. The Norris Trophy winner

6:35 PM ET ESPN staff The 2023 NHL trade season had it all: Contenders such as the Boston Bruins, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs and New Jersey Devils loaded up. Star players were on the move, such as Patrick Kane, Ryan O’Reilly, Timo Meier and Jakob Chychrun. There was lots of angst on social