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NHL Playoffs Daily: Reckoning Day
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Friday, 07 August 2020 05:47
Friday's NHL slate features the highest stakes we've seen yet, with six teams facing elimination. Auston Matthews, Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby could all potentially go home.Oh, and the teams ranked 22nd (Arizona Coyotes), 23rd (Chicago Blackhawks) and 24th (Montreal Canadiens) in regular-season points percentage can all clinch a playoff spot. Even for a league obsessed with parity, that's something.Check…
Grading the best, worst of NHL bubble fashion
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Friday, 07 August 2020 04:57
Under the NHL's CBA, players are required to wear a suit, dress shirt and tie to the arena on game days "unless otherwise specified by the head coach or manager." It's the only major professional sports league in North America with such a strict dress code."Once you get onto the plane, every team I've been on was different," explains recently…
Ducks re-sign D Larsson to 2-year, $2.4M deal
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Thursday, 06 August 2020 17:00
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The Anaheim Ducks have re-signed defenseman Jacob Larsson to a two-year, $2.4 million deal.The Ducks announced the return of their restricted free agent Thursday.Larsson will make $1.1 million next season and $1.3 million in the 2021-22 campaign.The 23-year-old Swede has two goals and 14 assists in 113 games over the past three seasons with the Ducks, who…
The cases for, against permanently expanding the NHL playoffs
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Thursday, 06 August 2020 06:43
Alarm. Breakfast. Hockey. Dinner. Sleep. Repeat.This is the life cycle in the NHL's restarted season, for the 24 teams involved in the two hub cities and the bleary-eyed fans watching from home. It's like a housebound hockey Coachella -- a "Couch-ella," if you will -- as the made-for-TV tournament runs all day, every day. Sometimes we've wonder if there can…
NHL Playoffs Daily: Jets face elimination, 12-seeds on verge of shockers
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Thursday, 06 August 2020 05:21
The Winnipeg Jets face elimination, while the Toronto Maple Leafs hope to roll on despite the loss of key defenseman Jake Muzzin.And, oh yeah: The NHL's No. 12 seeds, Montreal and Chicago, have the No. 5 seeds on the brink. We told you this was going to be like March Madness!Check out the ESPN Stanley Cup Playoffs Daily every day…
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