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Colorado Avalanche will be without defenseman Samuel Girard for rest of postseason due to broken sternum on ‘legal check’
Girard, who occupies major minutes on Colorado’s No. 2 defensive pairing, suffered what the team initially labeled an upper-body injury 1:49 into the first period of Game 3, a 5-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues. Girard was checked by Blues forward Ivan Barbashev behind the Avalanche net and fell to the ice near the […]
Continue readingColorado Avalanche goalie Darcy Kuemper ready for Blues as swelling around eye subsides
“I can see now,” he said with a laugh Sunday after practice. This remains clear to him, too: The incident could’ve been far more serious. “I got pretty lucky,” Kuemper said, “that it wasn’t worse.” The stick of Nashville center Ryan Johansen slipped through the protective bars on Kuemper’s mask and caught him around the […]
Continue readingColorado Avalanche overwhelm Nashville Predators to clinch sweep
Before the Colorado Avalanche entered the postseason, Calgary Flames head coach Darryl Sutter infamously predicted that a first-round series against them would be “a waste of eight days.” He was wrong. It only took seven days for the Avalanche to sweep the Nashville Predators. Colorado ended their first-round Western Conference series with a 5-3 road […]
Continue reading2022 Stanley Cup playoffs: Breaking down all 16 teams in the NHL postseason
The matchups and storylines are set as the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs get underway this week, with the last team standing hoisting the cherished chalice sometime in late June. Will that be the Tampa Bay Lightning, who are looking to become the first team to win the Cup in three consecutive seasons since the New […]
Continue reading2022 NHL playoff fantasy hockey pool guide: Favorites, sleepers and busts
We’re now wading into a fresh fantasy field in which the quantity of games played often rivals quality of individual performance. Alex Ovechkin can do only so much damage if his Washington Capitals are disposed of in five contests at the hands of the Florida Panthers. So, my advice: Pick a handful of teams you […]
Continue readingFantasy hockey waiver watch: Championship week adds and drops
Five days to go, folks! Which means in redraft playoff competition it’s time to ditch certain long-term relationships – regardless of how fruitful they’ve been to date – for the cream of the what-are-you-doing-for-me-now crop. You can select Alex Ovechkin, who’s listed day-to-day with an upper-body injury, again next fall. Right now, the 50-goal scorer […]
Continue readingNHL Power Rankings: 1-32 poll, plus the stat of the season for every team
For this week’s Power Rankings, we identified a stat for every team that best exemplified their performance, from recent trends to season-long strengths or weaknesses. How we rank: A panel of ESPN hockey commentators, analysts, reporters and editors rates teams against one another — taking into account game results, injuries and upcoming schedule — and […]
Continue readingFantasy hockey rankings: Championship week best pickups
If the Toronto Maple Leafs pull away from the Tampa Bay Lightning a little more over the next couple of games, they might be in a position to rest toward the end of the season. The Calgary Flames might be in a position soon where their seeding won’t change, but they still might need to […]
Continue readingFantasy hockey rankings: The returns and debuts most important to their teams
Thankfully, however, most of the races are being kept tight enough that teams won’t be able to consider resting players for at least a couple of weeks. Even though the teams in the postseason in the Eastern Conference are all but officially settled, there is enough jostling for seeding left that teams likely won’t be […]
Continue readingFantasy hockey rankings: Teams resting stars? Here’s who will get those starts
The Colorado Avalanche have a healthy 13-point lead on their current status as the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference. Is that reason enough to consider Nazem Kadri’s upper-body injury a season-ending one? Perhaps he comes back to get his legs for a couple of games before the postseason, but perhaps the Avs hold […]
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