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Ovi makes history with another 50-goal season

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin scored his 49th and 50th goals of the season in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Vegas Golden Knights in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, hitting a milestone that he’s seemingly made look easy year after year. Vegas coach Peter DeBoer pulled starting goalie Robin Lehner after the first period and turned to Logan Thompson. […]

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NHL playoff watch: Western wild-card drama continues

Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. With 11 days left in the 2021-22 NHL regular season, one of the hottest remaining playoff races is the scramble for the two Western Conference wild cards. Heading into Monday night’s games, the Dallas Stars and Nashville Predators hold a four-point lead over the […]

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Wild’s Hartman turns fine funds into philanthropy

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Enjoying the best season of his NHL career, Ryan Hartman sure has plenty of support in Minnesota. The Wild center was fined $4,250 by the league for unsportsmanlike conduct in the game Tuesday night against Edmonton, stemming from a fight with Oilers left wing Evander Kane. After the scrap was over and the two were separated, […]

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Matthews scores 2 more, Leafs seal playoff berth

TORONTO — On a night when the Toronto Maple Leafs honored Auston Matthews for setting the single-season franchise mark for goals earlier in the week, the star center added two more before the first period even ended. Matthews netted his 57th and 58th goals 27 seconds apart early on in the first frame as the Maple Leafs outlasted the Montreal […]

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NHL playoff watch: Wild-Blues a pre-playoffs preview

Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. As we gaze upon the current NHL standings, one first-round playoff matchup appears to be more locked in than all of the rest: the Minnesota Wild vs. the St. Louis Blues in the Central Division’s No. 2-vs.-No. 3 seed matchup. Luckily for us, we […]

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Avalanche at Penguins: Bo Byram’s third comeback from concussion-related issues begins at Pittsburgh – The Denver Post

PITTSBURGH — Upon waking up in a Nashville hotel on Jan. 11, Bo Byram remembers having three feelings, none of them good. The Avalanche rookie defenseman had no energy. He couldn’t eat anything. And he couldn’t play hockey. “It was brutal, to be honest with you,” Byram told The Post on Tuesday after the Avs’ morning skate at PPG Paints […]

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Minus Nathan MacKinnon, the Avalanche rally to down the Calgary Flames 2-1 – The Denver Post

CALGARY, Alberta — The Avalanche on Tuesday began what could be an extended injury absence to first-line center Nathan MacKinnon, and it went as well as the NHL-leading club could have hoped at Scotiabank Saddledome. Colorado used two power-play goals from winger Valeri Nichushkin and 44 saves from goalie Darcy Kuemper to defeat the Calgary Flames — the Western Conference’s […]

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