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7:20 AM ET The 2020 NHL draft is right around the corner. Teams will begin to finalize their personal draft boards ahead of the two-day event. But today, I’m not concerned with those draft boards. I’m looking only at my own. My mock draft typically weaves in team preferences and projects what I believe will

7:00 AM ET For nearly two months, the National Hockey League has kept the teams in its postseason tournament inside “bubbles” that it helped construct with the NHL Players’ Association in an effort to safely finish the 2019-20 season after it was paused because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially there were two: The 12 teams

11:10 PM ET After a 4-1 win for the Dallas Stars in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, the Tampa Bay Lightning evened things up in Game 2 on the strength of a three-goal first period. The Stars would prove a tough out, bringing it to a one-goal deficit and fighting to the end,

9:00 AM ET Tyler Seguin has been teammates with Jamie Benn since 2013. With the Dallas Stars playing in the Stanley Cup Final, it’s been a time for reflection for these friends and linemates. “It’s great. We’ve been through a lot of stuff,” Seguin said as a grin crept across his face during a recent

7:00 AM ET The Stanley Cup Final began on Saturday with an emphatic 4-1 win by the Dallas Stars. The Tampa Bay Lightning haven’t lost consecutive games all postseason. Can they keep that trend alive, or will they fall into the dreaded 0-2 hole tonight? Check out ESPN NHL Playoffs Today every day of the

9:57 PM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — Albert Langlois, a three-time Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens, has died. He was 85. The team announced the death Sunday. Langlois played four seasons with the Canadiens from 1957 to 1961, winning the Stanley Cup with the team in ’58, `59 and ’60. The defenseman also

10:43 PM ET In Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, the Dallas Stars did a lot of things to make coach Rick Bowness happy. They limited the Tampa Bay Lightning‘s chances. Their defensemen were active all over the ice. Most importantly, they posted a 4-1 win and took a 1-0 series lead. But it

10:17 PM ET Game 1 of the 2020 Stanley Cup Final was a wonderful site for Dallas Stars fans, as their team took a 1-0 lead over the Tampa Bay Lightning on goals from Joel Hanley, Jamie Oleksiak, Joel Kiviranta and Jason Dickinson; the lone goal for the Lightning came from Yanni Gourde. In case

6:56 PM ET The NHL said it was aware of an incident where a Florida Panthers assistant coach allegedly kicked a player on the bench, but said that it left any investigation and punishment up to the team. Canada’s TSN reported this week that coach Mike Kitchen, 64, kicked a Panthers player on the bench

7:00 AM ET So here we have it, a Stanley Cup being awarded in September. In a bubble. It will be either the Tampa Bay Lightning (whose only Cup win came back in 2004) against the Dallas Stars (lone Cup in 1999). It’s the first time two Sun Belt teams have faced off in the

7:00 AM ET The Tampa Bay Lightning and Dallas Stars are the final teams standing in the NHL’s postseason bubble, ready to battle for the second Stanley Cups in their franchises’ respective histories. But before they lift the Cup, one player will be handed the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player in the

12:19 PM ET The 2020 Stanley Cup Final between the Eastern Conference champion Tampa Bay Lightning and the Western Conference champion Dallas Stars begins Saturday night in the Edmonton bubble. As a service to fans who have a general interest in NHL hockey but have no idea what has happened in the past few months,

1:09 PM ET NHL Insiders The 2020 Stanley Cup Final is finally here! After a monthslong pause due to the coronavirus pandemic, the NHL staged its most unusual postseason tournament ever, with 24 teams heading to bubbles in Toronto and Edmonton. From that field of 24, we’re down to two: the Tampa Bay Lightning from

11:17 PM ET The 2020 NHL playoffs have nearly reached their final conclusion. The Dallas Stars are your champions of the Western Conference, while the Tampa Bay Lightning have joined them from the Eastern Conference. It was a season with lots of twists and turns — including a nearly five-month pause due to the coronavirus

4:13 PM ET EDMONTON, Alberta — The Stanley Cup will fly back from Edmonton with the winning team to its playing city. But after that, nobody knows how hockey’s most famous trophy will celebrate. The NHL and the Hockey Hall of Fame are weighing options on what to do next with the Cup. Typically, each

10:00 AM ET What a time to be a New York Islanders fan. Normally when you hear that, it doesn’t portend good things. It means the Islanders were criminally mismanaged or were purchased by an actual criminal or were forced into a nomadic arena existence that hopefully doesn’t end with them in Quebec City. But

6:53 PM ET Associated Press Jim Montgomery was hired by the St. Louis Blues as an assistant Wednesday, less than a year after he was fired by the Dallas Stars for unprofessional conduct. Montgomery is getting a second chance 10 months after Stars general manager Jim Nill said the coach acted inconsistently with “core values

6:43 PM ET Vegas Golden Knights general manager Kelly McCrimmon said settling the team’s volatile goaltending situation with Robin Lehner and Marc-Andre Fleury is his top priority this offseason. “Those are exactly the types of decisions that we’re going to be working on immediately. We don’t have those answers right now. The first order of