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Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. 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…
Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman admitted on Saturday that he “would not be surprised” if the start date for the 2020-21 season “slips into later December, [or] could slip…
Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. 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…
Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. 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…
Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. The New York Islanders were one of the strongest teams in the Toronto bubble, but ever since they arrived in Edmonton, they’ve been outmatched by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Eastern Conference finals. Sure,…
Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. The Dallas Stars will play for the Stanley Cup after eliminating the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals. The Tampa Bay Lightning can join them if they do the same…
Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. Peter Laviolette has been named the new coach of the Washington Capitals, the team announced Tuesday. Laviolette’s deal is believed to be for three years, a source told ESPN. Laviolette, 55, has 18 years of…
The New York Islanders pulled off a gutsy effort after blowing a 3-1 lead Friday night, then the rough stuff began. Islanders forward Jean-Gabriel Pageau was skating toward an empty Tampa Bay net to seal a 5-3 victory in Game 3 when…
This is a tale of two teams. One is a team in the Stanley Cup’s Eastern Conference finals for the fourth time in six years. The other is making its first trip to the final four since 1993. The former, of course, is the Lightning,…
Game 7!! After two fantastic Western Conference Game 7 showdowns on Friday night, Saturday is for the East. The Flyers and Islanders meet in a winner-take-all contest and the opportunity to take another step toward lifting Lord Stanley’s Cup. The Islanders led this series…
In a coronavirus-free world, Game 7 of the Avalanche-Dallas Stars Western Conference semifinal series would have been played in late May in front of 18,000-some fans at the Pepsi Center. Instead, it was played in September before empty seats in Edmonton. Home-ice…
Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. The 2019-20 NHL season will be remembered for quite some time, thanks to a pause because of the coronavirus pandemic that kept players off the ice for months…