With their losing streak hitting 12 games, the Buffalo Sabres fired coach Ralph Krueger on Wednesday. The Sabres have the fewest points in the NHL with 16. They sit in eighth place in the East Division, a full six points behind the Devils, who have two games in hand. New Jersey beat Buffalo 3-2 on Tuesday night. Buffalo’s winless streak […]

The return of star center Nathan MacKinnon on Wednesday seemed to give the injury-riddled Avalanche dynamic energy. In another fan-free and fake noise environment at Ball Arena, Colorado produced 27 of the first 32 shots in making the Arizona Coyotes look like its B team. After two periods, MacKinnon and his two wingers, Gabe Landeskog and Mikko Rantanen, had 15 […]

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Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. Mark Pavelich, a member of the “Miracle on Ice” 1980 Olympic hockey team, was found dead at a treatment facility in Minnesota, USA Hockey confirmed on Friday. The cause of death was not immediately known. Pavelich was 63. “We are saddened to hear about the passing of 1980 Olympic gold medalist Mark Pavelich,” […]

As the Buffalo Sabres' slide continues, their frustration is mounting. “It sucks. It’s the worst part about hockey," defenseman Rasmus Dahlin said Sunday after back-to-back shutout losses to the Philadelphia Flyers. "We have to turn this around.” The Sabres scored two goals in their next game but lost to the New York Rangers. Heading into Thursday's game at the New York Islanders, […]

The first ax swung Wednesday morning as Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin handed head coach Claude Julien his walking papers.  Was it a surprise move? Somewhat. The Canadiens made big moves in the offseason and started the season like gangbusters. But in recent weeks that success had slowed to a crawl. After losing six of their last eight and three […]

When New York Rangers forward Artemi Panarin supported Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an Instagram post last month, it probably didn’t occur to him that he might be inviting disruption into his life. On Monday, Panarin announced he was taking a leave of absence to deal with an accusation by his former coach in the Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda that […]

Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. The Montreal Canadiens fired coach Claude Julien on Wednesday. Dominique Ducharme was named the interim coach, and the team added longtime NHL winger Alex Burrows to the coaching staff. The Canadiens also fired assistant coach Kirk Muller, who served as interim coach in the 2020 playoffs after Julien was hospitalized with chest pains […]

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