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Sep 29, 2023, 02:02 PM ET Minnesota Wild signed forwards Mats Zuccarello and Marcus Foligno to contract extensions on Friday. Zuccarello signed a two-year, $8.25 million contract extension on Friday that will keep him with the team through the 2025-26 season. Foligno followed later in the day by signing a four-year extension worth $16 million.
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Associated Press Sep 28, 2023, 11:43 PM ET CHICAGO — Connor Bedard played in his first preseason game with the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night, and fans of the Original Six franchise were ready. So was Bedard, who had two assists in Chicago’s 2-1 overtime win over the St. Louis Blues. The 18-year-old center made
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Ryan S. Clark, NHL reporterSep 28, 2023, 03:34 PM ET Close Ryan S. Clark is an NHL reporter for ESPN. Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy is expected to miss the first two months of the regular season after having back surgery Thursday. Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois announced Vasilevskiy, a five-time NHL All-Star and
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Ryan S. Clark, NHL reporterSep 27, 2023, 06:59 PM ET Close Ryan S. Clark is an NHL reporter for ESPN. Two of the bigger questions facing the Calgary Flames were answered Wednesday when they signed center Mikael Backlund to a two-year extension while also naming him their captain. Re-signing Backlund, 34, to a two-year deal
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Sep 27, 2023, 03:00 PM ET Calgary Flames forward Jakob Pelletier will undergo surgery on his left shoulder and is out indefinitely. The team announced Wednesday that surgery will be performed next week. The injury occurred Monday night in a preseason game against the Seattle Kraken when Pelletier, 22, was pushed into the boards by
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Sep 26, 2023, 08:10 PM ET Cory Schneider, who played parts of 13 NHL seasons as a goaltender primarily with the New Jersey Devils and Vancouver Canucks, announced his retirement from the league on Tuesday. Schneider, 37, last played in the NHL during the 2021-22 campaign and was not signed to a team ahead of
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Sep 26, 2023, 07:59 AM ET It’s been a week of firsts for women in the National Hockey League. Professional Women’s Hockey League coach Kori Cheverie was behind the bench for the Pittsburgh Penguins‘ preseason game Sunday, and then AHL coach Jessica Campbell did the same for the Seattle Kraken on Monday. Other women have
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Sep 25, 2023, 04:54 PM ET The Columbus Blue Jackets added Mark Recchi as an assistant coach to Pascal Vincent’s staff on Monday. Recchi was last on a bench in the 2021-22 season with the New Jersey Devils an assistant who ran the club’s power play. Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2017,
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Associated Press Sep 24, 2023, 12:04 PM ET NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Former NHL player Nicolas Kerdiles died Saturday after a motorcycle crash in Nashville, according to police. He was 29. The former Anaheim Ducks forward drove his motorcycle through a stop sign early Saturday and hit the driver’s side of an SUV, according to the
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Associated Press Sep 23, 2023, 07:37 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — The NHL’s first preseason game in the Southern Hemisphere went ahead Saturday after officials apparently solved some issues with the quality of the ice at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena. Ahead of Saturday’s Global Series game between the Los Angeles Kings and Arizona Coyotes, won
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Associated Press Sep 21, 2023, 08:15 PM ET OTTAWA, Ontario — The sale of the Ottawa Senators is finally official. The NHL announced Thursday that the transfer of the club to a group led by Michael Andlauer has been unanimously approved by the league’s board of governors, and that the transaction has been completed. The
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