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The Chargers started the all-black route by playing against the Panthers, creating NHL history Daniel Walcott (Daniel Walcott) is already very excited to participate in his first NHL game. When he saw how his debut took place, he became even more excited. On Monday night, the Tampa Bay Chargers started three black forwards in the regular season final against the Florida Panthers, which is rare in NHL history-if not the absolute first. Walcott, Mathieu Joseph and Gemel Smith fought together for the first duel, and they didn’t know they would start the game together until a few minutes before...

SUNRISE, Fla.- (AP) — Chris Driedger stopped 30 shots to record his third shutout of the season, Juho Lammikko scored a short-handed goal, and the Florida Panthers secured home-ice advantage for the opening round of the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 4-0 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning in the regular season finale for both clubs on Monday night. Driedger made his first start in six games. “I kind of just show up … the guys played fantastic defensively tonight,” Driedger said. “I feel good. I was seeing the puck. Couple of breakaways I just felt solid on. I had good dept...

Defending champion Lightning make NHL history by starting an all-black forward line as Tampa Bay head coach Jon Cooper says he hopes 'it will become the norm' The Tampa Bay Lightning started three black forwards in their regular-season finale on Monday night, a rarity in NHL history, if not an absolute first Daniel Walcott, Mathieu Joseph and Gemel Smith played together against Florida - likely the first time three black forwards were ever on the same line Roughly 3 percent of NHL players are black, even though hockey and its teams have increased efforts in recent years to add to diversity wi...

Bantering Points: 5/11/21 Share this story Rangers News: Larry Brooks examines New York’s salary cap situation in the wake of the Ryan Lindgren extension (NY Post) Brooks also explains why he doesn’t expect the Blueshirts to try and pry Jack Eichel out of Buffalo (NY Post) Mollie Walker notes that even in the wake of exit interviews, David Quinn’s future with the organization is still up in the air (NY Post) Colin Stephenson hears that Mika Zibanejad has walked back his earlier claims, blaming the aftereffects of COVID-19 on his early season struggles (Newsday) Vincent Mercogliano offer...

Tampa Bay Lightning lose to Florida Panthers, 4-0 Share this story Photo by Eliot J. Schechter/NHLI via Getty Images Chris Driedger posted a 30-save shutout and four different Florida Panthers scored as they beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-0 in the final game of the season. MacKenzie Weegar, Juho Lammikko, Carter Verhaeghe, and Alex Wennberg scored against Andre Vasilevskiy, who had 26 saves on 30 shots in the loss. Overshadowing the loss was the NHL debut of one of the most popular players in Syracuse Crunch history, Daniel Walcott. The 27-year-old forward played 10:03, dolled out 7 hits, fir...