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Sweden Gives Up Late Lead, Finns Move On For the first time since 2004, Sweden has lost three games in a row at the World Junior Championship – but it came at the expense of an early tournament exit as the Swedes blew a 2-0 lead to their rivals from Finland to lose 3-2, advancing […]

You can never count out the Finns these days. Even when they were down in the third period to archrival Sweden and even after the potential game-tying goal was disallowed on an offside review, Finland refused to stay down. And thanks to Toronto Maple Leafs prospect Roni Hirvonen, who potted the game-winner with less than […]

Things can certainly change, but it’s difficult to imagine that we haven’t seen the last of Henrik Lundqvist as an NHL player. Assuming Zdeno Chara does indeed play this season, ‘King Henrik’ would have already been the fourth-oldest player in the league and the oldest NHL goalie in 2020-21. It’s hard to fathom that someone […]

Duclair isn’t getting anywhere near his actual market value and turned down a deal from the Senators worth a lot more. If he lands on the right line in Florida, however, he could deliver his first 30-goal season and score a much bigger contract next year. With the NHL season (hopefully) inching closer to a […]

Defenseman Daniil Chayka has made a habit of winning and now he’s bringing that experience to the Russian world junior team. Born and raised in Moscow, Chayka and his family moved to Toronto when he was a teenager so he could play for the U16 Toronto Jr. Canadiens. That squad, which also featured future NHL […]

Now that the NHL and the NHL Players’ Association have reached an agreement on a 56-game season that will begin Jan. 13, they now face the monumental task of selling their vision for the 2020-21 season to public health officials in Canada. And that could be even more difficult. A source close to the situation […]

Though it may seem like a future that will never come, the Detroit Red Wings are in a good position thanks to GM Steve Yzerman. The franchise legend just re-signed top-line winger Anthony Mantha to a four-year pact with an annual cap hit of $5.7 million, getting excellent value for the 26-year-old, but also continuing […]

For most elite young defensemen, getting hit by a slapshot in the left shin is a fairly commonplace occurrence. But when you’re playing your first hockey game in almost 21 months and that shin just happens to be the same one from which a cancerous tumor was removed, well that’s enough to make any teenager’s […]

If there’s one team that deserves to win the NHL’s coronavirus draft lottery, it’s the Nashville Predators. Because if that happens, it will force David Poile to do something he’s done fewer than a handful of times in his 22 years as the only GM the Predators have ever known. Having the No. 1 overall […]

The record will show that the Columbus Blue Jackets are leading their qualifying series against the Toronto Maple Leafs because Pierre-Luc Dubois took this series by the throat, put his team on his back and turned in a tour-de-force performance in Game 3. And that is as it should be. At the age of 22, […]