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Jim Rutherford resigns as Pittsburgh Penguins GM, citing personal reasons
“It just got to a point that I decided my time was up here,” Rutherford told The Associated Press, stressing that the move had nothing to do with his health. “I know everybody wants to refer to my age all the time,” the 71-year-old Rutherford added, with a laugh. “The guy who has the toughest […]
Continue readingUpdated fantasy hockey rankings: What’s changed from last season?
We last checked in with a rankings update in June, when the NHL was very much in limbo. Since then, we’ve had an extended playoffs, a draft, a long delay, and the start of a very different NHL season. Since then, we’ve revamped the default scoring to better reflect positional value and diverse skill sets […]
Continue readingNHL Power Rankings: Final preseason edition for the 2021 season
The 2021 NHL season is here! After awarding the Stanley Cup in September following a most unusual 2019-20 season, we’re back on the ice again. Four new divisions, 56-game schedules and, most importantly, 116 consecutive nights of NHL games, beginning Wednesday. For our first week of power rankings, we offer a reason for hope for […]
Continue readingNHL Power Rankings: Mid-offseason edition
For this week’s Power Rankings, we identified our favorite move each team made this offseason. How we rank: The ESPN hockey editorial staff submits selections ranking teams 1-31 — taking into account past results and offseason additions — and those results are tabulated in the list featured here. Stanley Cup odds are courtesy of William […]
Continue readingConsecutive championships for a city in the Super Bowl era
Los Angeles is title town, for the time being. It’s not often that a sports city or metropolitan area follows up one title by also winning the next major sports championship awarded — not to mention three teams from the same city pulling it off. With the Los Angeles Lakers defeating the Miami Heat in […]
Continue readingFormer player Trevor Daley joins Pittsburgh Penguins’ front office
The 37-year-old Daley announced his retirement after 16 seasons on Monday in conjunction with his decision to begin his post-playing career by returning to the Penguins. The team said Daley will assist in player evaluations at both the NHL and minor league levels and help the coaching staff during games. “In addition to being a […]
Continue readingNHL free agency 2020 preview: Team needs, trade targets, cap space, key dates
The word that typically defines free agency in the NHL is “uncertainty.” Players with expiring contracts enter a marketplace unsure of what their next deals will look like or where they’ll next call home. But in the 2020 free-agent frenzy, that uncertainty has reached previously unseen levels for players and teams. There’s a flat salary […]
Continue readingWinners and losers of the 2020 NHL playoff bubbles
However you want to calculate it, the quarantined postseason ended on Monday with the Tampa Bay Lightning defeating the Dallas Stars in six games for hockey’s Holy Grail, ending the most remarkable quest for the Stanley Cup in the history of the NHL. That the season was restarted was amazing. That the season was completed […]
Continue readingAlex Pietrangelo’s savvy ‘local hero’ pressure play on the St. Louis Blues
Alex Pietrangelo, 30, is the belle of the free-agent ball this offseason, the kind of top-pairing defenseman in his prime who could complete a Stanley Cup puzzle for several teams — and one who is coveted even more for having won the Cup last season. Pietrangelo’s “stuff” is very much in St. Louis. Based on […]
Continue readingPenguins trade two-time Stanley Cup winner Patric Hornqvist to Panthers
The Penguins traded the 33-year-old right winger to the Florida Panthers on Thursday in exchange for defenseman Mike Matheson and center Colton Sceviour. Hornqvist spent six seasons in Pittsburgh after being acquired in a 2014 trade that sent James Neal to Nashville. Known for his hard-nosed play around the net, Hornqvist scored 132 goals in […]
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