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Fantasy hockey rankings Week 4 update: Right time to drop slumping starters?

We have a larger-than-usual batch of new faces to the rankings this week, with 22 players shuffled in and 22 shuffled out. Why? With close to a quarter of the season on the books, it feels like a good chance to do some “spring cleaning” of the ranks. There are more than a few dust […]

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Fantasy hockey waiver watch: Jesse Puljujarvi, Joe Thornton among top players to add

Update (Monday, 12pm ET) on this week’s game postponements in accordance with the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol: The New Jersey Devils, Buffalo Sabres, and Pittsburgh Penguins are off until Thursday, at the earliest. The Minnesota Wild are also scheduled to resume play Thursday, but that could change in light of additional players joining the league’s protocol […]

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Updated 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 […]

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Minnesota Wild trade goalie Devan Dubnyk, forward Ryan Donato to San Jose Sharks for picks

For Donato, the Wild received a third-round pick in the 2021 draft. The Sharks parted with their fifth-round pick in the 2022 draft for Dubnyk and received Minnesota’s 2022 seventh-rounder in return. The 34-year-old Dubnyk was surpassed by Alex Stalock on the depth chart this season after taking more than a month off from mid-November […]

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Ranking the most memorably weird hockey playoff overtime goals

He snapped a quick shot at Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Michael Leighton and circled around the net. The first player to raise his hands in victory was Patrick Sharp. Defenseman Nick Boynton joined him for a moment before briefly rejoining the play, as the referee had yet to signal a goal. Kane appeared to be cycling […]

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Sharks look for rebound following rough 2019-20 season

A slow start, a rough December and an injury-plagued final stretch of the season left last season’s Western Conference runners up at the bottom of the conference standings. “We didn’t get off to a good start. We were chasing our tail,” general manager Doug Wilson said Tuesday. “October we were awful, November we were one […]

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Sharks may play home games in empty arena after Santa Clara mass gatherings ban

“I’ve never been in the NHL and played a game without any fans. It would be very strange,” forward Evander Kane said. Santa Clara County’s Public Health Department on Monday announced a mandatory order requiring cancellation of “mass gatherings” of more than 1,000 people for three weeks while it studies the spread of the virus […]

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Capitals rally from 2 down in final minute to beat Sharks

WASHINGTON — The Washington Capitals never believe they’re out of a game. On Sunday, they showed why. Lars Eller scored with 2:59 remaining in overtime after the Capitals rallied from two goals down in the final minute of regulation, completing a stunning 5-4 victory over the San Jose Sharks. T.J. Oshie tied the game with […]

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Why the San Jose Sharks fired Peter DeBoer, and what happens next

Bob Boughner, an assistant coach with the Sharks, takes over on an interim basis. Meanwhile, the team also let go assistant coaches Dave Barr, Steve Spott and goalie coach Johan Hedberg. You’ve probably got questions — Was this really DeBoer’s fault? Are there trades on the way? — and we’re here to answer them, along […]

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