The Sunday nightcap of the Stanley Cup Playoffs featured the Nashville Predators and Vancouver Canucks debuting their first-round series. It was an appropriately close, emotional battle, one the Canucks took 4-2, not without some difficulty. Canucks Win Dog Fight Versus Predators On paper, this may have been a matchup between one team – the Canucks
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Ryan S. Clark, NHL reporterApr 20, 2024, 03:07 PM ET Close Ryan S. Clark is an NHL reporter for ESPN. Open Extended Reactions Vegas Golden Knights captain Mark Stone was cleared to practice Saturday as the team continues to monitor his progress ahead of their first-round playoff series Monday against the Dallas Stars. Stone has
Kristen Shilton, ESPN NHL reporterApr 20, 2024, 08:19 PM ET Close Kristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. Open Extended Reactions BOSTON — Toronto Maple Leafs forward William Nylander sat out Game 1 of his club’s first-round playoff series against the Boston Bruins on Saturday due to an undisclosed injury. Nylander, who hasn’t
Greg Wyshynski, ESPNApr 20, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Open Extended Reactions Before each season, I predict who will win the Stanley Cup. I predict who they will defeat for the Stanley Cup. Both the champion and the runner up from those preseason predictions for 2023-24 qualified for
The Toronto Maple Leafs take on the Boston Bruins at TD Garden tonight for Game 1 of their first round series. Here are the projected/expected lineups, sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents and others. Related: 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs Round 1 Hub 3A) MAPLE LEAFS at (2A) BRUINS Eastern Conference First Round, Game 1 8 p.m. ET;
Greg Wyshynski, ESPNApr 19, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Open Extended Reactions As a service to fans who have a general interest in the National Hockey League but have no idea what’s happened since the Vegas Golden Knights raised the Stanley Cup by defeating the Florida Panthers in
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. Apr 19, 2024, 07:25 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs are here! It took to the
Open Extended Reactions Thursday is the final night of the 2023-24 NHL regular season, with the 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs set to begin Saturday. Although the identity of all 16 playoff teams is known, the eight matchups are not all locked in. So which games matter most? Editor’s Picks 2 Related Sadly for those with
The Nathan MacKinnon show continues. Even in the final game of the regular season with nothing on the line, the former first-overall pick from 2013 is setting records. On this night, he was breaking the Colorado Avalanche/Quebec Nordiques’ single-season franchise record for points with his 140th. The previous one was held by Peter Stastny, who
Open Extended Reactions The NHL has whittled down from 32 teams to 16 that remain in the hunt for the Stanley Cup. With the playoffs set to begin on Saturday, it’s time for our annual ranking of the top 50 players who will participate in the postseason. The playoff edition of ESPN NHL Rank seeks
Greg Wyshynski, ESPNApr 17, 2024, 10:00 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Open Extended Reactions Nikita Kucherov of the Tampa Bay Lightning deserves to win the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s most valuable player this season. The beautiful thing about making that kind of declarative statement about the 2023-24 MVP race?
While the Eastern Conference matchups for the 2024 NHL playoffs are set, that is not the case for those teams in the Western Conference. Here is a look at where the playoffs stand in the Western Conference One Matchup is Set The Winnipeg Jets’ victory over the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday (April 16) clinched second
Whoever plays the Dallas Stars in the Western Conference bracket of playoffs this season will be considered an underdog. By virtue of pushing their game on Wednesday versus the St. Louis Blues to overtime tied 1-1, the Texas-based squad has capped off the 2023-24 regular season by clinching the number one seed in the West.
Neil PaineApr 17, 2024, 07:50 AM ET Close Neil Paine writes about sports using data and analytics. Previously, he was Sports Editor at FiveThirtyEight. Open Extended Reactions When the NHL playoffs start Saturday, they’ll be dropping the puck on the most wide-open race for the Stanley Cup in four decades — if not longer. Comparing
The San Jose Sharks take on the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups, sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents and others. SHARKS (19-52-9) at OILERS (48-25-6) 9:30 p.m. ET; TVAS, SNW, SNOL, NBCSCA Sharks projected lineup William Eklund — Mikael Granlund — Fabian Zetterlund Klim Kostin — Luke Kunin — Collin Graf
Open Extended Reactions A certain sequence of events had to happen on Monday night for four teams to remain in the running for the second Eastern wild card — and that sequence of events occurred. So where do things stand heading into Tuesday? It’s a little complicated! But here is the path to the postseason
The Minnesota Wild take on the Los Angeles Kings at Crypto.com Arena tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups, sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents and others. WILD (38-33-9) at KINGS (43-26-11) 9:30 p.m. ET; ESPN Wild projected lineup Kirill Kaprizov — Joel Eriksson Ek — Matt Boldy Marcus Johansson — Marco Rossi — Ryan Hartman Frederick Gaudreau
With their 4-1 victory over the Calgary Flames, the Vancouver Canucks have clinched the Pacific Division for the first time in their history. The last time they won the division was back in 2012-13 when it was called the Northwest Division. They are also still in the running for the Western Conference title unless the