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Fantasy hockey: Scoring forwards and goalie streamers

Pick the winners and crown your Stanley Cup champion! Create A Bracket The last time St. Louis and Chicago faced off, back in late December, the Blues beat the Blackhawks 7-5. Robert Thomas/Jordan Kyrou and Co. will need a similar result Wednesday if they’re to maintain any hope, however slender, of reaching the postseason. Tomas […]

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NHL Power Rankings: 1-32 poll, top fantasy playoff performers

To help you win a title in your league, we called in ESPN fantasy analysts Sean Allen and Victoria Matiash to highlight a prime playoff performer from each club — and in many cases, they are players who are available in a large majority of ESPN leagues. How we rank: A panel of ESPN hockey […]

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NHL Power Rankings: 1-32 poll, each team’s pivotal player

These are the driving factors that make the remainder of the NHL regular season so compelling. Perhaps the only things more compelling than what happens to these teams are the players whose efforts will play such a massive role in shaping their teams’ short- and long-term futures. This week, our NHL Power Rankings take a […]

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Cale Makar’s first career hat trick propels Avs to victory

DENVER — Cale Makar and Nathan MacKinnon said farewell Wednesday to a good friend who was traded away. Then, they went to work. Makar had his first career hat trick, MacKinnon extended his home points streak to 31 games with a goal and three assists and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Detroit Red Wings 7-2 […]

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Nathan MacKinnon extends home point streak in Avalanche win

More Teams. More Games. Andrew Cogliano and Nathan MacKinnon score within 50 seconds of each other in the second period. (0:32) DENVER — Andrew Cogliano and Nathan MacKinnon scored 49 seconds apart to help Colorado pull away in the second period, Alexandar Georgiev stopped 33 shots and the Avalanche cruised to a 5-1 win over […]

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Maple Leafs F Tyler Bertuzzi nets hat trick on 29th birthday

DENVER — Tyler Bertuzzi scored three times, including a go-ahead, power-play goal with 2:51 remaining, and the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Colorado Avalanche 4-3 on Saturday night for their seventh straight win. Bertuzzi, a free agent signing last summer who has struggled with his new club, posted a multigoal effort in a regular-season game […]

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Fantasy hockey: Watch the Ducks, Avalanche and Sharks

More Teams. More Games. Troy Terry tallies goal vs. Wild (0:45) It’s one of the extended weeks in the fantasy hockey world thanks to the NHL All-Star Weekend scheduled for this coming weekend. Week 17 of the fantasy season is technically two weeks, extending from Jan. 29 to Feb. 11. But, because of the break […]

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MacKinnon continues scoring spree with 4 goals as Avalanche win

MacKinnon, the NHL scoring leader with 82 points, had his second four-goal game of the season and eighth career hat trick. He ran his home points streak to 24 to break a tie with Joe Sakic for the franchise record. “He’s always been the most dedicated guy off the ice since I’ve been here but […]

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Avalanche sign Zach Parise to deal for rest of the season

Zach Parise is back. And this time it will be with the Colorado Avalanche as the club announced Friday the signing of the 39-year-old winger for the rest of the season. Parise, who spent the past two years with the New York Islanders, has been without a club since the start of the season. He […]

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Fantasy hockey pickups: Add Rickard Rakell immediately

The Hurricanes, Red Wings, Capitals, and Devils are all off until Thursday, by which point we should have a much clearer picture of how long New Jersey will have to manage without Jack Hughes (again). Of those active to launch this fresh fantasy week, some noteworthy highlights include the Canucks traipsing through New York to […]

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