Last Night’s Score Dallas Stars 2 – Vegas Golden Knights 1 (series 3-1 Stars) Josh Bogorad: “Anton Khudobin led the NHL in the regular season with a .930 save percentage. In his first ever Conference Final, he has stopped 119 of 125 shots and elevated that to .952 through the first four games.” Today’s Game
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Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun-Times: Goaltending is going to be Chicago Blackhawks GM Stan Bowman’s top priority this offseason. “That’s a top priority, getting goaltending situated for next year,” he said. “But I don’t have that mapped out right now.” Ideally, re-signing Corey Crawford to a deal in the $3 to $4 million range
Penguins may not be a cap team next year Rob Rossi and Josh Yohe of The Athletic: The Pittsburgh Penguins have $68.2 million in salary cap hits for 16 players. There is some speculation from team and league sources that they Penguins will be looking spend in the low- to mid-$70 million range for next
Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press: The Detroit Red Wings acquired forward Robby Fabbri from the St. Louis Blues this past season. In 51 games with the Red Wings, he recorded 14 goals and added 17 assists. He’s a pending restricted free agent and signing him to a two-year contract would make sense.
Top 10 pending NHL unrestricted free agent goaltenders Sean O’Leahy of theScore: Looking at the top 10 pending NHL unrestricted free agent goaltenders. Robin Lehner – Vegas Golden Knights – Won’t be easy for the Golden Knights to fit in both Lehner and Marc-Andre Fleury. Jacob Markstrom – Vancouver Canucks – GM Jim Benning wants
Re-signing Anton Khudobin a priority for the Dallas Stars Sean Shapiro of The Athletic: (mailbag) Don’t think that the Dallas Stars will be a team this offseason that will start looking to clear out money. The Stars will do all they can to re-sign backup goaltender Anton Khudobin. Getting him re-signed is a priority. It
Senators GM Dorion on the draft and free agency Wayne Scanlan of Sportsnet: The Ottawa Senators are guaranteed two picks in the top-six, and at best they could hold the No. 1 and No. 2 picks. The Senators have stockpiled picks for this draft, with three first-round picks and nine picks in the first three
Devils were interested in Gronborg Jokke Nevalainen: From a Hockeysverige.se report, the New Jersey Devils were interested in Rikard Gronborg as their head coach but he wasn’t allowed to get out of his contract with Zurich. Red Wings RFA Timashov, and free agent options in net Mark Falkner of the Detroit News: There was a
One big question mark that the Calgary Flames will need to address once free agency begins is what their goaltending situation will be moving forward. This season, they decided to bring in veteran Cam Talbot to backup David Rittich. It worked out well, as Rittich made the All-Star Game and Talbot was terrific when called
Canucks blue line could have a different look next season Iain MacIntyre of Sportsnet: (mailbag) The Vancouver Canucks blue line next season could have a different look. Alex Edler, Tyler Myers and Quinn Hughes will be back but Chris Tanev and Troy Stecher could be cap casualties. Tanev is a UFA and Stecher is a
Rory Boylen of Sportsnet: Looking at a potential trade candidate for each team in the Western Conference. Anaheim Ducks – Adam Henrique – Carries a $6 million cap hit through 2023-24. The centerman could interest some teams. Arizona Coyotes – Derek Stepan – The Coyotes may need to clear some cap space for their free
NHL and NBA looking at Vegas? Adrian Dater: Have been hearing the NHL and NBA could potentially be battling for Vegas as a host city for playoff games. Kings would like to sign Kaliyev John Hoven: Los Angeles Kings GM Rob Blake said that he’s been talking with the camp of 2018 draft pick Arthur
The Golden Knights could bring Lehner back with a flat cap but it would cost them Jesse Granger of The Athletic: The Vegas Golden Knights have about $74.2 million committed for 17 players next season. That includes 10 forwards, six defensemen, and one goaltender. That should be enough room to re-sign pending restricted free agents
Will the Canadiens sign a veteran backup? Trade Kulak? Sign Kovalchuk? Eric Engels of Sportsnet: (mailbag) The Montreal Canadiens signed seven-year KHL veteran goaltender Vasili Demchenko back in April. They could still look to sign a veteran backup in free agency. wonders if they’d take a run at Anton Khudobin if he out prices himself
In today’s NHL rumor rundown, there is buzz about who the Montreal Canadiens might be looking at for a backup goaltender and possible trade speculation. In San Jose, there are questions about their netminding situation. Canadiens Backup Goalie Options Sportsnet’s Eric Engels recently was asked about backup goaltender options for the Montreal Canadiens and he
Camp starting back up at the start of June? John Scott:: Had heard (late last week) that NHL camp would open back up on June 1st and that European players could start coming back to their teams’ cities soon. Markstrom has no plans to leave Vancouver Iain MacIntyre: Vancouver Canucks pending free agent goaltender Jacob
It could be a buyers market this offseason for goaltenders Harman Dayal of The Athletic: One agent said back in January that if Jacob Markstrom was his client he should be after a five-year deal. One source said that it’s going to be a buyers market this offseason. This would give the Canucks a bit
Sens would take BPA if their two first-round picks were in the top three Haily Salvian: Ottawa Senators GM Pierre Dorion said that if the Sens get the second and third overall picks in the 2020 draft, they would selected the “two best players” and not draft by position. Top free agent Pietrangelo may have