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The Chicago Blackhawks won the NHL draft lottery Monday night and will have the opportunity to select Regina Pats’ captain Connor Bedard first overall in June.

Connor Bedard is a generational talent. Which team makes the playoffs the fastest if it wins the Bedard lottery?

Several forwards on the USNTDP are flourishing at the event. One or two might wind up in Detroit.

A woman who bizarrely kidnapped a private school teacher for a drunken, violent interrogation will spend more than a year behind bars.

A judge was unable to find a Tweed woman genuinely remorseful for her role in detaining a Brisbane school teacher who died when hit by a truck soon after being released.

A surprise to few, Pats’ phenom Connor Bedard has been named the East Division player of the year in the Western Hockey League (WHL).

One day, you're a carefree college kid living dorm life and playing in the NCAA tourney. The next, you're an adult, an NHLer, a rookie.

Of all the in-season additions, perhaps no one has been a bigger surprise for what the Rangers needed than Niko Mikkola.

As far as losses go, that one was about as good as it gets.

Now that the trade deadline has come and gone, the Edmonton Oilers’ biggest move was acquiring defenceman Mattias Ekholm, although it came at a hefty price.