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Bruins put Winter Classic star DeBrusk on LTIR

Jake DeBrusk’s starring role at the Winter Classic has proved costly, with the Boston Bruins putting the forward on long-term injured reserve Thursday. The team announced that DeBrusk suffered hand and lower-body injuries in the 2-1 win over the Penguins at Fenway Park on Monday. He scored both of Boston’s goals in the third period, including the game winner with […]

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Wyshynski’s NHL playoff hope tiers: Projections for all 32 teams

Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. The NHL season is nearing its midpoint, which means teams separating out into the hopeful and the hopeless. Here are the Stanley Cup Hope Tiers as they are currently constituted. The projected points and playoff probabilities are through Monday’s games and provided by FiveThirtyEight. The Stanley Cup champion probabilities are via Money Puck. […]

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Avs bring back MacKinnon from injured reserve

The Colorado Avalanche have activated star center Nathan MacKinnon off injured reserve ahead of Saturday’s game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. MacKinnon has not played since Dec. 5 because of an upper-body injury that forced him out of a loss to the Philadelphia Flyers. He was placed on IR the following day. The Avalanche said at the time that MacKinnon […]

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Avalanche Journal: The long-term injury toll of a Stanley Cup run

The line has blurred between correlation and coincidence, between bad luck and good reason. Colorado’s injury list reached double-digits after star center Nathan MacKinnon went down last weekend in Philadelphia, leaving the 2022-23 Avalanche looking unrecognizable from last season’s Stanley Cup champion roster. It’s enough to make fans scream into the void: Why is this happening? Speaking of the Stanley […]

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Bruins’ Charlie McAvoy shares perspective on play that injured Artturi Lehkonen in Boston, which Avalanche coach Bednar said was dirty

Two opposing perspectives of a consequential moment in Boston emerged as the Avalanche and Bruins prepared for a rematch. In the first period of Colorado’s 5-1 loss Saturday night at TD Garden, Boston’s Charlie McAvoy dragged Artturi Lehkonen down to the ice during a skirmish in the Bruins’ crease as the play was whistled dead. Lehkonen was reaching over the […]

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