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Boston Bruins’ Brad Marchand won’t ‘poke the bear’ in reunion with former teammate Zdeno Chara

Boston Bruins star Brad Marchand knows better than to agitate former teammate Zdeno Chara, even though he’s now an opponent. “No, you don’t want to poke the bear,” Marchand said. Chara faces the Bruins on Saturday for the first time since leaving Boston as a free agent, signing with the Washington Capitals in the offseason. […]

Charlie McAvoy ready to step up as the next great Boston Bruins defenseman

“The Bruins were looking to do a model that Zach Werenski did a year before,” McAvoy says. “Which is to leave college, go play in the AHL playoffs, get your feet wet there, then the next year try to make the [NHL] team out of camp.” When he showed up to the rink for his […]

Are Dylan Larkin and the Detroit Red Wings ready to turn the corner?

Dylan Larkin has a hard time sugar-coating it — last season sucked for him and the Detroit Red Wings. It’s tough to finish with a minus-122 goal differential and 23 fewer points than any other team. Larkin called it “embarrassing” to be on the first Red Wings team to finish dead last in the standings […]

NHL 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 […]

With new contract in tow, veteran defenseman Jared Spurgeon named Minnesota Wild captain

Spurgeon’s 6-year-old daughter, Colbie, was skeptical. “She asked if he was firing me,” Spurgeon said. No, dear, your dad is about the last player the Wild would get rid of. Guerin and Evason were there to formally name Spurgeon just the second full-time captain in team history. “From the day I got this job, Spurge […]

Washington Capitals’ Zdeno Chara didn’t want reduced role with Boston Bruins

Zdeno Chara isn’t ready to retire and doesn’t want to play a reserve role, and that’s why he’s no longer the Boston Bruins’ captain. After 14 seasons with the Bruins, Chara, 43, signed a one-year, $795,000 contract with the Washington Capitals as a free-agent defenseman on Wednesday. He captained three Boston teams that went to […]

Zdeno Chara announces Boston Bruins exit after 14 seasons, signs 1-year deal with Washington Capitals

Zdeno Chara is leaving the Boston Bruins after 14 seasons and signing a one-year free-agent contract with the Washington Capitals. Chara, 43, will make $795,000 against the salary cap with Washington. He said the Bruins decided to go in a different direction, and the unrestricted free agent was not in their plans. “The Boston Bruins […]

NHL free agency 2020: Best players still available on the market

The 2020 NHL free-agent frenzy has started to mellow out. The flat salary cap had teams scrambling to find the right fits under less-than-ideal financial conditions, leaving some free agents waiting to see if lucrative opportunities would still materialize. Here are the top 10 unrestricted free agents still on the market as of Thursday morning. […]

NHL 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 […]

Bruins GM Don Sweeney dismisses talk of trading G Tuukka Rask

“As a matter of fact, our staff has communicated with Tuukka. As I said before, he remains a big part of our roster planning going forward. He was second in the Vezina balloting, and we feel very, very comfortable [with] where our goaltending is at,” Sweeney said Monday. Rask, 33, went 26-8-6 this season with […]