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NH💧L strangely keeping goalies in dark over major rule change
Henrik Lundqvist is one of the stars of the NHL. He’s the face o🗹f one of their biggest franchises in the Rangers and one of the best players in the...
Islanders can't stop balanced attack from Lightning
TAMPA, Fla. — The Lightning used the power play to extend their recent dominance ov💮er the Islanders. Steven Stamkos had a goal and two assists, Andrei Vasilevskiy made 31 saves...
World Cup of Hockey primer: Can anyone beat Canada? ⭕
TORONTO — This World Cup of Hockey isn’t technically a best-on⭕-best tournament because, if it were, then Johnny Gaudreau and Brandon Saad would surely be skating♏ for the Red, White...
Why structure of these 3 contracts points to another NHL lockout 🎶
🐠 Signing bonuses will become a hot-button issue around which the NHL coalesce༒s leading into the 2020-21 Owners’ Lockout IV, because some contracts — such as the ones Steven Stamkos signed...
Steven Stamkos' Isles-thwarting megadeal reveals NHL's top GM
Several seismic moves on this NHL Blockbuster Wednesday, a t൲raditionally sleepy day on the league calendar, appear to have turned Friday’s July 1 opening of the free-🐠agent market into an...
Failing Nielsen offer only start of Isles' alarming free-agent issue
Sweepings from the Entry Draft floor in Buffalo: The Islanders, who have already bade goodbye to topꦺ-six winger Kyle Okposo on his way to the July 1 bazaar, appear to...
ඣ Islanders-Lightning matchups: The deciding factor in G🐎ame 7
TAMPA, Fla. — The Islanders have won a playoff series for the firs𒁏t time in 23 years, beating the Atlantic Division-winning Panthers in six heart-pounding games. Now they’re faced with...
꧅ Punchless Devils have no answers for Stamkos, Lightning
If the Devils can't put an end to this rouꦉgh stretch, they can kiss the playoffs goodbye. Steven Stamkos extended his goal-scoring streak to a season-high five games and the...
NꦐHL players✃ should back head-shot victims like their ref crusher
Boy, look at how the NHL Players’ Association stands up for its members when there is a clear and present enemy 🐻coming from outsiℱde its ranks. The vigor with which the...
Why Brooklyn-frustrated John Tavares could bolt to Leafs in '18
Among all of the hypothe🌞ticals, I find the notion of Steven Stamkos wearing the Maple Leafs crest next season among th⛎e least plausible. It doesn’t make sense that No. 91, having...
Sidney Cros🐻by is a coach-ki🥃ller -- there, we said it
There is a crisis in Pittsburgh, which is not a sho🍌ck to anyone who has watched the NHL this season. The whi🌳rlwind of criticism has included almost everyone, from the...
Vign🦋eault mu💙st bring hammer down on Rangers -- and Kevin Hayes
Thirty-four games of this is more than enough of a sample size for Alain Vigneault to take off those rose-colored glas🅘ses, through which he has been watching Kevin Hayes from...
24 reasons the NHL is 🀅awesome right now🐻
Take a🥃 small step backward, and you know what I see? I see a NHL that is very, very healthy. It’s fewer than 10 games into the season, but it...
Curb the Sabres optimism: Better doesn't mean good
Buffalo is a fine and noble town. Honest, hard-workin💯g people. Anchor Bar, Duff’s, probably some other interesting stuff that I haven’t really seen. (Actually, the architecture for such a small,...
The big names, busted trades that put Wilmer Flores' debacle to shame
ꦡ If you don't know about the Wilmer Flores debacle at Citi Field on Wednesday night, here’s a qu🌳ick recap: During the game, it was widely reported Flores (and Zack Wheeler) would be sent...
Protect a꧟ teammate or turn the other cheek? Vigneault weighs in ꦚ
There is a fine line of bꦡeing physical in the playoffs and going overboard, and it seems as if Chris Kreider is straddling that line almost every game. The Rangers’...
Lightning on Rangers' Game 7 prowess: They haven't beat us
TAMPA — The Lightning’s best chance to r🤪each the Stanley Cup final is gone, extinguished when shot after shot died on contact with Henrik Lundqvist, evaporated when the defense did...
💜 The one Lightning player the Raꩵngers must stop in Game 6
TAMPA — Steven Stamkos has been to the Eastern Conference final before, when the Lightning fell in seven games to the Bru൩ins in 2011. Two seasons sans playoffs and 🌸a...
Series hinges on this: Rangers' depth vs. the Lightning's Big 8
The Eastern Conference final may be level at two-all with Sunday’s Game 5 coming up at the Gard🌃en, but make no mistake, this series between the Rangers and Lightning has...
Rangers' goal: Stop the Lightning's potent power play
♔ TAMPA, Fla. — The Rangers veered into the unrecognizable in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference final, playing as if there were no consequences for thoughtless actions. And for much...