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Islanders acquire Jean-Gabriel Pageau from Senators, sign him to 6-year deal
Ottawa gets a 2020 conditional first-round pick, a 2020 second-round pick and a conditional 2022 third-round pick. The first-round pick is top-three protected, and if the Islanders win the Stanley Cup this spring, they will send the Senators the 2022 third-round pick. Pageau was set to become an unrestricted free agent after this season, but […]
Continue readingNikita Kucherov lifts Lightning to franchise-record 11th straight win
Tampa Bay’s 11th straight victory — the longest winning streak in the NHL this season — broke the franchise mark of 10 set last season. Tampa Bay is the second NHL franchise to record a pair of double-digit winning streaks in a season, joining the Boston Bruins, who did so in 1929-30 and 1970-71. Despite […]
Continue readingHow Cale Makar leveled up to NHL stardom so quickly — and what comes next
As such, it is perhaps comforting to hear a rare example of Makar getting into a pickle. It was before last spring’s second-round series against the San Jose Sharks, and the Avs had an off day. Makar had moved in with teammate Matt Calvert and his family to ease the NHL transition. The Calverts set […]
Continue readingThe NHL’s best and worst this week: How Sidney Crosby inspired Nathan MacKinnon to ‘take less’
The comments went viral. “That blew up more than I thought it would,” MacKinnon told me last week in Chicago. “I forgot I was in Toronto speaking. I’m used to being in Denver. If I said that in Denver it would have just been brushed aside.” Nonetheless, I wanted to know if MacKinnon stood by […]
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