When the NHL charter flight back from the Edmonton bubble landed in New Jersey, Gary Bettman’s phone started ringing. The commissioner thought he’d get a couple of weeks to exhale after awarding the Stanley Cup to the Tampa Bay Lightning. Instead, it was back to work. Of course, planning for the 2021 season began well
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This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports’ daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what’s happening in sports by subscribing here. To borrow a phrase we hear too often these days, an NHL season like no other opens Wednesday night. Here are some big-picture things to know about the pandemic-shortened 2021 campaign:
9:40 AM ET It’s challenging to keep up with the news during a typical NHL offseason. It’s doubly challenging to do so when that offseason begins in late September, ends in mid-January and every day in between presents another focus-devouring distraction from pressing issues like which team signed Radko Gudas. (Spoiler: It was the Florida
The 2020-21 NHL season is just around the corner after several months on hiatus with the 2020 Stanley Cup Final being in September. There are new changes to the league, especially with divisions, that they have never done before. The four divisions will feature wild changes to the alignment because of the United States/Canada border
The Ottawa Senators have acquired forward Clark Bishop from the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for defenseman Max Lajoie. Bishop, 24, notched six goals and 13 assists for 19 points in 53 games with the AHL’s Charlotte Checkers last season. He added one assist in five NHL games with the Hurricanes. A native of St. John’s,
In the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs, it was no surprise Vancouver Canucks’ head coach Travis Green was not shy about shuffling his lines. The big question heading into the 2020-21 season revolved around who will play on the team’s top-six. With the emergence of Nils Hogalnder, the organization has more options than expected. Green will
The LA Kings are poising themselves for potentially making the playoffs in 2020-21. With Drew Doughty looking for a bounceback year, Gabriel Vilardi being a potential Calder Trophy Contender, and Anze Kopitar being a top center in the league, LA has the pieces to potentially do damage in a weak West division. With dreams of
With training camp winding down, Calgary Flames head coach Geoff Ward has done a lot of juggling with his forward lines, employing multiple options at the center position in the process. We’ve also seen Andrew Mangiapane, Josh Leivo and Dominick Simon all spend time on a line with Sean Monahan and Johnny Gaudreau, while Dillon
Jeff Skinner was enjoying an afternoon in his parents’ backyard, when suddenly the Buffalo Sabres’ forward thought his father was pulling an April Fool’s joke on him in mid-September. “My dad came out and told me that Eric Staal is on our team,” Skinner said upon learning Buffalo had acquired his former Carolina Hurricanes teammate
The dawn of a new NHL season is upon us, and it will be a memorable one — regardless of which team hoists the Stanley Cup — given the paralyzing impact of the global pandemic. On the ice, the players themselves will author the story of a campaign that will no doubt be talked about for decades to
10:20 PM ET ESPN News Services The Dallas Stars will resume practicing on Tuesday, four days after six players and two staff members tested positive for COVID-19. Dallas had its first three games — at Florida on Thursday and Friday, and at Tampa Bay on Sunday — postponed. The defending Western Conference champions are now
Right now, the Colorado Avalanche are focused on the 2020-21 season. But just around the corner lies a different sort of obstacle: the Seattle Kraken’s expansion draft. The highly-anticipated event will take place on July 21, potentially a month after the Stanley Cup is awarded, and each team (except the Vegas Golden Knights) will have
The Binghamton Devils have signed forward Cam Darcy to a one-year American Hockey League contract. Darcy spent the 2019-20 season with the AHL’s San Antonio Rampage, tallying four goals and 14 assists for 18 points. A seventh-round choice by Tampa Bay in the 2014 NHL Draft, Darcy has skated in 249 AHL games over five
After falling to the Montreal Canadiens in the opening round of the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs, many questions arose about the state of the Pittsburgh Penguins. With an aging core and back-to-back first round exits, general manager Jim Rutherford needed to make some changes. Head coach Mike Sullivan has proven to be a strong NHL
The 2020-21 NHL season begins on Jan. 13. With the new season comes a league-wide realignment based on geographic location. The Columbus Blue Jackets will have many new divisional opponents, as the Carolina Hurricanes are the only other Metropolitan team now in the Central Division. Here’s a look at the other teams in the Central
The Winnipeg Jets have always been a bit of an odd bunch in the aesthetics department. Their World Hockey Association days saw them change their uniforms nearly every single year. Once they reached the National Hockey League, they wore a stolen jersey template for an entire decade. The return of the Jets to Winnipeg in
Mike Babcock is coming to a television set near you. Well, if you watch hockey on NBC or its cable partners. The former coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs has accepted a job as colour commentator for NBC Sports. Babcock, who won the Stanley Cup with Detroit in 2008, will be an in-studio commentator along
A COVID-19 test for a Vancouver Canucks player came back with a “false positive” on Sunday, leading the team to cancel training camp for the day. The team said in a release Sunday it cancelled practice “out of an abundance of caution due to potential exposure to COVID-19.” All players are tested each day when
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