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After a disheartening loss in Vancouver three nights ago, the Rangers have crossed from British Columbia into Alberta to take on the Edmonton Oilers. With tonight’s contest being the first of a...
Bob Frid-USA TODAY Sports With over a month to go before the entry draft, the Seattle Kraken expansion draft, and free agency, it’s strategy time for the Vancouver Canucks. The Canucks made decisions on their coaching staff last week, have to find new contracts for Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes, and will need to make decisions on a few pending unrestricted free agents. GM Jim Benning has promised to be “aggressive” on the trade front and in free agency, and appears likely to use the buyout option to clear some cap space. But unless he pays a price that hinders the team’s future or...
Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports Contract negotiations have begun between the Vancouver Canucks and their two biggest stars, Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes. Both Pettersson and Hughes are pending restricted free agents and have hired the same agency, CAA Hockey, to represent them. Pettersson is represented by J.P. Barry, while Pat Brisson represents Hughes. “There’s been multiple talks,” said Barry in an interview with Don Taylor and Rick Dhaliwal on CHEK television this morning. “We’ve started the dance, we’ll have to keep going for a little while here… but we definitely are enga...
Post-firings, it appears patience no longer a virtue for the New York Rangers play Fists fly between Caps and Rangers in first game since Tom Wilson controversy (2:52) The Capitals and Rangers have six fights to start the game that saw a total of 141 penalty minutes in the first meeting since Tom Wilson injured Artemi Panarin on Monday. (2:52) Watching a New York Rangers rebuild is like watching someone learning how to drive. You know at some point there's going to be an aggressive acceleration, and you're just hoping it's not before they figured out how to work the steering wheel. Hence, the...
Instead of hats raining down onto the ice after Brandon Sutter’s hat trick goal on Monday night, just one hat — belonging to backup goalie Braden Holtby — hit the ice at Rogers Arena. It was a cool moment in these bizarre times, but certainly it’s just not the same without fans at games. Even among the players, they’re limited in the amount of socializing they can do with each other. So what do you do? Buy your teammate a delicious ice cream treat, obviously. “Man, we miss the fans,” Canucks defenceman Nate Schmidt said on Tuesday. “It’d be such a cool thing for [Sutter’...