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| Blackhawks defenseman Calvin de Haan skating in Ottawa a positive sign for Hawks |
| The NHL has yet to formally enter Phase 2 of their Return To Play protocol, where players can take part in voluntary practices and workouts in small groups at team facilities, but with gradual reopenings across North America, players are slowly ramping up on-ice activities if rinks are allowing them to. |
| Posted: 05/29/2020 |
| USA Hockey president Jim Smith facing investigations |
| USA Hockey president Jim Smith is the subject of two investigations surrounding his tenure as the president of Amateur Hockey Association Illinois. USA Hockey spokesman Dave Fischer confirmed Friday that the organization has hired an independent investigator to look into Smith’s business dealings with AHAI. Fischer also said the US Center for SafeSport is investigating allegations that Smith was aware of reported sexual misconduct by a coach and didn’t take action against him during Smith’s tenure with AHAI. |
| Posted: 05/29/2020 |
| Ducks' offensive woes extend to rare 2-year playoff drought |
| The last time the Anaheim Ducks missed the playoffs in back-to-back seasons, they went all the way to their franchise's first Stanley Cup Final just one year later. Not many observers expect the current Ducks to duplicate the feats of those beloved 2002-03 Mighty Ducks after they complete another long offseason made even longer by the coronavirus pandemic. The Ducks were in sixth place in the Pacific Division standings primarily on the sturdy strength of goalies John Gibson and Ryan Miller, who bailed out their teammates all winter long. |
| Posted: 05/29/2020 |
| Why Oilers fans aren't happy about facing Blackhawks in play-in series |
| Sportsnet's Mark Spector chatted with Blackhawks pre and postgame host Pat Boyle and former Hawk turned broadcaster Eddie Olczyk on the latest Blackhawks Talk podcast to help present an Edmonton side of the play-in series against the Blackhawks under the NHL's 24-team playoff format. |
| Posted: 05/29/2020 |
| Hurricanes agree to arena lease extension through July 2029 |
| The Carolina Hurricanes have reached a five-year lease extension to remain in PNC Arena through July 2029. Arena owner Centennial Authority and Hurricanes parent company Gale Force Sports and Entertainment announced the agreement Thursday. The News and Observer of Raleigh reported that deal provisions include an agreement by the Hurricanes not to relocate during the current lease, as well as eliminating rent payments following the 2020 fiscal year. |
| Posted: 05/28/2020 |
| Yzerman-led Red Wings sticking to long-term plan to rebuild |
| Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman is sticking to his rebuilding plan, which includes not making a coaching change or attempting to pull off a splash in free agency. Yzerman is not interested in short-term fixes such as firing coach Jeff Blashill or outspending other NHL teams to add available veterans on the open market. Red Wings fans have heard that refrain often in recent years. |
| Posted: 05/28/2020 |
| Eichel lets loose: Sabres captain 'fed up' with losing |
| Sabres captain Jack Eichel kept his frustrations in check for the first 14 minutes of an end-of-season interview session with Buffalo-area reporters Thursday. It wasn't until he was asked to assess the future of a team that's not made the playoffs during his five-year tenure, when Eichel let loose. Where they've gone is essentially nowhere for the 23-year-old Eichel, who was celebrated as the franchise's key building block after being selected with the No. 2 pick in the 2015 draft. |
| Posted: 05/28/2020 |
| NHL awards regular-season trophies for season cut short |
| Since the NHL is planning to go straight to the playoffs, it's handing out a handful of trophies for the regular season cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. Play was halted March 12 with 189 regular-season games remaining. Washington's Alex Ovechkin and Boston's David Pastrnak share the Maurice ''Rocket'' Richard Trophy as the top-goal scorer after tying with 48. |
| Posted: 05/28/2020 |
| AP Exclusive: Athletes wary about virus, testing upon return |
| Chris Thompson is an NFL running back. “If I go practice or play and I come back home with the virus ... that’s my biggest worry,” said Thompson, who signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars this month after seven seasons with the Washington Redskins. |
| Posted: 05/28/2020 |
| The NHL's bloated playoff proposal is a bid for normalcy that's anything but |
| Gary Bettman has announced plans to complete the NHL’s coronavirus-interrupted season with an expanded 24-team postseason, but one question persists: Why bother?Sites, dates and times are to be determined, but the National Hockey League is planning to complete its coronavirus-interrupted 2019-20 season at some point this summer with its best aspect by far, the Stanley Cup playoffs.OK, fine. So why is it even bothering?“We’re not planning this for the economics,” Gary Bettman, the NHL commissioner, said after making the announcement Tuesday on NBC, the NHL’s broadcast partner. “The economic consequence of what’s going on has for the most part already been sustained, and we’re feeling the impact. We’re doing this because we’re hearing from our fans overwhelmingly that they’d like us to conclude the season. They’d like the game back. It represents a sense of normalcy.”Here is the thing: a sense of normalcy is more like a very faint whiff of normalcy. First, these playoffs will likely be in mid- to late-summer (not normal), in two “hub” cities (not normal), before no fans (not normal). A whopping 24 of the league’s 31 teams will be eligible for the Cup, not the normal 16.The format is not normal, either: As 16 of the 24 teams compete in best-of-five series (not normal) in a qualifying round, the eight teams that have earned byes will play a round-robin tournament (not normal) to determine seedings for series against the first-round winners (not normal).The conference finals and Stanley Cup final will be best-of-seven series, as normal, but the lengths of the first and second round have not been determined. It is possible that a team could need to win more playoff games for the Cup than the usual 16, which is not normal, either.Even though NBC lost thousands of hours of summer programming because of the one-year postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, this was the NHL’s idea. It is clear from the solid ratings of early telecasts of live Nascar and golf events that people want to watch sports, even though they don’t carry the same impact because there are no fans.Those events are not the Stanley Cup playoffs, though. They always say the Cup is the hardest to win in sports because each round is quite literally a two-week battle – and there are four rounds. By the end, almost everyone is playing with some sort of injury. Each series, even the last one, ends with a noble handshake line of the two combatants, honoring each other.Teams have competed for the Cup for nearly 130 years through a simple playoff system free of gimmicks. There are no shootouts in the playoffs, and if six overtimes are needed for a tie-breaking goal (as in 1936), well, they play six overtimes. This get-up feels like a gimmick.To its credit, the NHL is approaching these amended playoffs with caution per the coronavirus, with NHL Players’ Association executive director Donald Fehr saying on NBC: “We have done as best we can at this point to design appropriate health and safety protocols. If they need to be amended over time, we will amend them. This is a living document.”The playoffs won’t feel anything like a stirring crescendo, as usual. The season was suspended on 12 March, so the players will have been out of action for more than three months before they gather again for pre-tournament training camps. Eight teams could see their seasons end after going through a training camp, then losing three straight games.Those first-round “seeding” games among the top eight teams, four per conference, won’t feel anything like playoff games – or even regular-season games among the league’s elite. Hockey players, much like basketball players, feed off the thunderous emotions of its fans (or feed off shutting up the other team’s fans). This will feel like watching a good practice. Meanwhile, the players will be sequestered in hotels.Bettman is not optimistic about, but has not ruled out, holding later rounds of the playoffs in cities in which the teams play, but that seems to bring up other logistical problems, even without fans in the seats – like, those famous watching parties outside both teams’ arenas. These will pretty much exclusively be a watch-it-from-your-couch playoffs.Which is the way most people watch sports on TV, anyway, so it is not as if most people will be missing a lot. I’d bet the players will be trying their hardest. But the quality of play could be compromised by the long layoff, and the atmosphere will be lacking inside the arenas.It just feels so … forced. This is not like cancelling the NCAA basketball tournaments, which include teams that change entirely over four years. There was no Stanley Cup champion in 2005 because an unresolved labor dispute led the NHL to cancel the season. There was no World Series champion in 1994. It sucked, but both leagues got back to it next year.The 2020 Stanley Cup champion, if one is decided, won’t feel the same as the others. Teams did complete 85% of the regular season, and the season is expected to be concluded with the winners’ hoisting of the gleaming silver chalice. But it won’t come close to a sense of normal, even to the players, I’d bet.A pandemic is certainly a valid enough reason to cancel the crowning of a sports champion for one year. What has been derived for the NHL takes away some value of a beloved and cherished trophy that, in normal times, is the most difficult to win. |
| Posted: 05/28/2020 |
| How Blackhawks' paused 2020 NHL season may compare to 2012-13 lockout |
| When the Blackhawks had group practices at Johnny's IceHouse West during the 2012-13 lockout while they waited for the season to start, there was a purpose and intensity that carried into official team practices, training camp, the regular season and hoisting the Stanley Cup after the 2013 playoffs concluded. |
| Posted: 05/27/2020 |
| Criticism doesn't alter Sabres GM's plan to build with youth |
| Jason Botterill is very much aware of the criticism he’s attracted overseeing a Buffalo Sabres team that extended its playoff drought to nine years by failing to even qualify for the NHL’s expanded 24-team format. “There’s always urgency in this position, and I’m not surprised that our passionate fans want to see a winner on the ice,” Botterill said during a Zoom conference call Wednesday, a day after the Sabres were officially eliminated following the league’s decision to forego the remainder of the regular season. , there wasn’t enough consistency to extend the Sabres’ 50th anniversary year after games were placed on pause due to the pandemic in March. |
| Posted: 05/27/2020 |
| Canada urged to lift Covid restrictions for NHL players |
| Canada's federal government has been urged to relax its coronavirus quarantine controls to boost Edmonton's chances of hosting part of the National Hockey League playoffs. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney made the request in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday as the NHL announced it is considering Edmonton as one of 10 possible hub cities to restart the season in. |
| Posted: 05/27/2020 |
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| EASTERN CONFERENCE |
| Team |
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
GD |
PTS |
| 1. BOS |
70 |
44 |
14 |
12 |
53 |
100 |
| 2. TBL |
70 |
43 |
21 |
6 |
50 |
92 |
| 3. WSH |
69 |
41 |
20 |
8 |
25 |
90 |
| 4. PHI |
69 |
41 |
21 |
7 |
36 |
89 |
| 5. PIT |
69 |
40 |
23 |
6 |
28 |
86 |
| 6. TOR |
70 |
36 |
25 |
9 |
11 |
81 |
| 7. CAR* |
68 |
38 |
25 |
5 |
29 |
81 |
| 8. CBJ* |
70 |
33 |
22 |
15 |
-7 |
81 |
| 9. NYI |
68 |
35 |
23 |
10 |
-1 |
80 |
| 10. NYR |
70 |
37 |
28 |
5 |
12 |
79 |
| 11. FLA |
69 |
35 |
26 |
8 |
3 |
78 |
| 12. MTL |
71 |
31 |
31 |
9 |
-9 |
71 |
| 13. BUF |
69 |
30 |
31 |
8 |
-22 |
68 |
| 14. NJD |
69 |
28 |
29 |
12 |
-41 |
68 |
| 15. OTT |
71 |
25 |
34 |
12 |
-52 |
62 |
| 16. DET |
71 |
17 |
49 |
5 |
-122 |
39 |
| WESTERN CONFERENCE |
| Team |
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
GD |
PTS |
| 1. COL |
70 |
42 |
20 |
8 |
46 |
92 |
| 2. STL |
71 |
41 |
19 |
10 |
30 |
92 |
| 3. VGK |
71 |
39 |
24 |
8 |
16 |
86 |
| 4. EDM |
71 |
37 |
25 |
9 |
8 |
83 |
| 5. DAL |
69 |
37 |
24 |
8 |
3 |
82 |
| 6. CGY |
70 |
36 |
27 |
7 |
-5 |
79 |
| 7. WPG* |
71 |
37 |
28 |
6 |
13 |
80 |
| 8. VAN* |
69 |
36 |
27 |
6 |
11 |
78 |
| 9. NSH |
69 |
35 |
26 |
8 |
-2 |
78 |
| 10. MIN |
69 |
35 |
27 |
7 |
0 |
77 |
| 11. ARZ |
70 |
33 |
29 |
8 |
8 |
74 |
| 12. CHI |
70 |
32 |
30 |
8 |
-6 |
72 |
| 13. ANA |
71 |
29 |
32 |
9 |
-37 |
67 |
| 14. LAK |
70 |
29 |
35 |
6 |
-34 |
64 |
| 15. SJS |
70 |
29 |
36 |
5 |
-44 |
63 |
| ATLANTIC |
| Team |
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
PTS |
GD |
GA |
| BOS |
70 |
44 |
14 |
12 |
100 |
227 |
174 |
| TBL |
70 |
43 |
21 |
6 |
92 |
245 |
195 |
| TOR |
70 |
36 |
25 |
9 |
81 |
238 |
227 |
| FLA |
69 |
35 |
26 |
8 |
78 |
231 |
228 |
| MTL |
71 |
31 |
31 |
9 |
71 |
212 |
221 |
| BUF |
69 |
30 |
31 |
8 |
68 |
195 |
217 |
| OTT |
71 |
25 |
34 |
12 |
62 |
191 |
243 |
| DET |
71 |
17 |
49 |
5 |
39 |
145 |
267 |
| METROPOLITAN |
| Team |
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
PTS |
GD |
GA |
| WSH |
69 |
41 |
20 |
8 |
90 |
240 |
215 |
| PHI |
69 |
41 |
21 |
7 |
89 |
232 |
196 |
| PIT |
69 |
40 |
23 |
6 |
86 |
224 |
196 |
| CAR |
68 |
38 |
25 |
5 |
81 |
222 |
193 |
| CBJ |
70 |
33 |
22 |
15 |
81 |
180 |
187 |
| NYI |
68 |
35 |
23 |
10 |
80 |
192 |
193 |
| NYR |
70 |
37 |
28 |
5 |
79 |
234 |
222 |
| NJD |
69 |
28 |
29 |
12 |
68 |
189 |
230 |
| CENTRAL |
| Team |
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
PTS |
GD |
GA |
| COL |
70 |
42 |
20 |
8 |
92 |
237 |
191 |
| STL |
71 |
41 |
19 |
10 |
92 |
222 |
192 |
| DAL |
69 |
37 |
24 |
8 |
82 |
180 |
177 |
| WPG |
71 |
37 |
28 |
6 |
80 |
216 |
203 |
| NSH |
69 |
35 |
26 |
8 |
78 |
215 |
217 |
| MIN |
69 |
35 |
27 |
7 |
77 |
220 |
220 |
| CHI |
70 |
32 |
30 |
8 |
72 |
212 |
218 |
| PACIFIC |
| Team |
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
PTS |
GD |
GA |
| VGK |
71 |
39 |
24 |
8 |
86 |
227 |
211 |
| EDM |
71 |
37 |
25 |
9 |
83 |
225 |
217 |
| CGY |
70 |
36 |
27 |
7 |
79 |
210 |
215 |
| VAN |
69 |
36 |
27 |
6 |
78 |
228 |
217 |
| ARZ |
70 |
33 |
29 |
8 |
74 |
195 |
187 |
| ANA |
71 |
29 |
32 |
9 |
67 |
186 |
223 |
| LAK |
70 |
29 |
35 |
6 |
64 |
178 |
212 |
| SJS |
70 |
29 |
36 |
5 |
63 |
182 |
226 |
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