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Former NHL player Akim Aliu, whose description of past alleged racist behaviour by Bill Peters led to the former NHL coach resigning from the Calgary Flames, has signed a contract for the rest of the 2019-20 season with HC Litvinov of the Czech Extraliga. The Czech team confirmed the move on its website Tuesday. Aliu,

CHICAGO—Patrick Kane’s 1,000th career point created one big party for the Chicago Blackhawks. Everyone was invited. Kane reached 1,000 when he picked up an assist on Brandon Saad’s third-period goal, and the Blackhawks beat the Winnipeg Jets 5-2 on Sunday night for their season-high fifth straight win. Kane became the 90th player in NHL history

Jason Spezza’s Maple Leafs teammates call him Vintage for a reason. He’s old school. Likes they way things were. At 36, he still takes the morning skate, even if it’s optional and the guys he’s skating with are on the bubble of playing or sitting, or working their way back from injury. So when it

Sports·Video Retired broadcaster Bob Cole returned to Hockey Night in Canada to provide an update on the blizzard that enveloped his home province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Social Sharing Posted: Jan 18, 2020 8:43 PM ET | Last Updated: January 19 Retired broadcaster Bob Cole returned to Hockey Night in Canada to provide an update

Somehow, over the past nine days, Zack Kassian pulled off the impossible by stealing the bulk of hockey headlines in Edmonton from star teammates Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. Such is life for the newest protagonist — or villain, depending on what team you cheer for — in the revived Battle of Alberta. But Kassian

Patrick Kane’s 1,000th career point created one big party for the Chicago Blackhawks. Everyone was invited. Kane reached 1,000 when he picked up an assist on Brandon Saad’s third-period goal, and the Blackhawks beat the Winnipeg Jets 5-2 for their season-high fifth straight win. Kane became the 90th player in NHL history to reach the

Akim Aliu didn’t know when and how he would share his story of racial abuse at the hands of his coach before he took to Twitter in late November 2019 to write a series of tweets that would upend the hockey world. During the first intermission of Hockey Night in Canada‘s primetime game on Saturday, Sportsnet

Tanner Pearson scored on the power play and had an assist as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the San Jose Sharks 4-1 Saturday night. Loui Eriksson, J.T. Miller and rookie defenceman Quinn Hughes also scored for the Canucks (27-18-4) who won for the 11th time in 14 games and extended their home winning streak to eight

As Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin rapidly gets closer to 700 career goals, the celebration planning continues. With hat tricks in his last two games and eight goals in his last three, the 34-year-old Ovechkin appears to have the pedal down as he approaches a threshold just seven other players have cleared. Ovechkin is eight

Sports·Video The Strong Warrior Girls Anishinaabe Choir treated Winnipeg Jets fans to the Canadian national anthem sung in Ojibwe for the very first time at a professional sporting event. Social Sharing Posted: Jan 17, 2020 8:21 PM ET | Last Updated: January 18 The Strong Warrior Girls Anishinaabe Choir treated Winnipeg Jets fans to the

In his role as the New Jersey Devils’ general manager, Ray Shero fielded questions at two hastily arranged news conferences at Prudential Center in the past six weeks: the first to say he had fired the head coach, and the second to say he had traded one of the team’s star players. Josh Harris, the

Anthony Cirelli had shaving cream on his ear, hair and T-shirt. He didn’t mind, though. The foam was part of the celebration his Tampa Bay Lightning teammates gave him Friday after he scored his first career hat trick in a 7-1 routing of the Winnipeg Jets. “Yeah they were pretty excited,” said Cirelli, who’s in

Winnipeg Jets forward Mathieu Perreault is livid after the NHL’s Department of Player Safety decided not to hand out any discipline to Vancouver Canucks forward Jake Virtanen following a controversial play Tuesday. Virtanen’s elbow got up on Perreault’s head, away from the puck, during the first period of their game in Winnipeg. No penalty was

Dougie Hamilton, one of the top-scoring defencemen in the NHL, broke his left fibula in Thursday night’s game after his leg bent awkwardly during a fall. Michael Smith, a senior editor for the Hurricanes’ website, tweeted that Hamilton was being evaluated by team doctors “and could undergo a procedure as early as (Friday). A further

Carolina Hurricanes all-star defenceman Dougie Hamilton has a broken bone in his left leg. The team announced Friday that Hamilton suffered a broken fibula in Thursday night’s loss at Columbus. He was hurt in the second period while chasing down a puck along the wall in the neutral zone when he was tangled up with

Jake Virtanen scored midway through the second period to reach a career-high 26 points in a season as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Arizona Coyotes 3-1 Thursday night. Bo Horvat and Tanner Pearson, into an empty net, also scored for the Canucks (26-18-4) who won for the 10th time in 13 games. Elias Pettersson had

Winnipeg Jets forward Mathieu Perreault was livid after the NHL decided against supplemental discipline for Vancouver Canucks forward Jake Virtanen following a hit in Tuesday night’s game. Virtanen’s elbow got up in the head of Perreault away from the puck during the first period of their game in Winnipeg. No penalty was called on the

Arizona Coyotes head coach Rick Tocchet will replace Gerard Gallant behind the bench for the Pacific Division at the upcoming NHL all-star game, the league announced Thursday. Gallant was named the head coach of the Pacific team on Jan. 3, when the Vegas Golden Knights resided in first place in the division. Gallant, however, was fired