CHICAGO — Patrick Marleau scored two goals in his first game back with San Jose, and the Sharks beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-4 on Thursday night for their first victory of the season. Barclay Goodrow snapped a third-period tie and Brent Burns scored his 200th career goal for San Jose, which opened with four consecutive
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On a Pietrangelo-Blues extension Jeremy Rutherford: Thoughts on an Alex Pietrangelo and St. Louis Blues extension. “with Armstrong trading a lot of term for lower AAV lately, do we see the Blues and Pietrangelo do the same thing? He turns 30 in January; does he get an eight-year deal at an AAV that helps keep
Don’t expect a Byfuglien decision soon Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman said last night to not expect a Dustin Byfuglien decision to return to the Winnipeg Jets or retire any time soon. “I spoke today to agent Ben Hankinson and he said, ‘Look, don’t jump to any conclusions,’” Friedman said Saturday on Hockey Night in Canada’s ‘Headlines’
Extension talks to start for some pending restricted free agents Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic: From understanding, the New York Islanders and the agent for Mathew Barzal, J.P. Barry, have already established that they’d like to have contract extension talks this fall. Barzal’s numbers so far have him between Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner. That
PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Travis Konecny had two goals and coach Alain Vigneault won his debut with Philadelphia, directing the Flyers to a season-opening 4-3 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday. Oskar Lindblom and Michael Raffl also scored for the Flyers in front of a sellout crowd of 17,463 at Prague’s O2 Arena as
Last season, I wrote a piece on Dylan Strome’s future with the Chicago Blackhawks. He started the first 20 games of the 2018-19 season with the Arizona Coyotes where he scored three goals and three assists before being traded to the Blackhawks and tallying 17 goals and 34 assists in 58 games. Strome’s entry-level contract
By The Canadian Press September 13th, 2019 CHICAGO — Blackhawks defenceman Calvin de Haan has been ruled out for the start of training camp with his new team and he is expected to miss two to three weeks. The 28-year-old de Haan is coming back from right shoulder surgery. He also is dealing with a
© Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports Top RFAs holding up the free agent market Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun-Times: Chicago Blackhawks Brendan Perlini is just one of many unsigned restricted free agents. The big named RFAs are holding up the market, and it’s trickled down to some UFAs. There are 14 teams that have over
We’re just a few short months away from the 2019-20 season for the Chicago Blackhawks. General manager Stan Bowman has done his best to make the team better this summer. Jeremy Colliton is primed for his first full season as head coach. Now it’s simply a matter of whether the players can pull it all
Home NHL Free Agents NHL Rumors: Sabres Buyout Window, Broeser Wants $7 Million, And The Blackhawks… © Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports Will the Sabres use their second buyout window? Lance Lysowski: The Buffalo Sabres now have another buyout window that will be opening up. GM Jason Botterill usually doesn’t like to go that round, but
CHICAGO — Andrew Shaw is back in Chicago following a trade with Montreal last month, and the ever-chirping 28-year-old has been the toast of the team’s annual fan convention this weekend. The convention crowd erupted when Shaw — part of the Blackhawks’ 2013 and 2015 Stanley Cup championship teams — was introduced at opening ceremonies
CHICAGO — Jeremy Colliton has a plan, and he has time. It feels pretty good, too. Unlike last season, when he took over after the Chicago Blackhawks fired coach Joel Quenneville in November, Colliton gets a full training camp to implement his vision for the team. He also should have more practice time to use
© Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports Top 10 ‘untradeable’ NHL contracts Ken Campbell of The Hockey News: The ‘bad’ contracts of Milan Lucic, James Neal, and David Clarkson have been traded over the past week or so. Taking a look at the top 10 contracts that have four or more seasons remaining that may be untradeable.
What Boston might do about their salary cap problem Jared Clinton of The Hockey News: Alas, the Boston Bruins possess about $8.1 million in cap space. The problem lies in the fact they have Charlie McAvoy and Brandon Carlo to sign. Both would easily command $10+ million combined in salary at a bare minimum. That
The Chicago Blackhawks have traded center Artem Anisimov to the Ottawa Senators for center Zack Smith. The 31-year old Anisimov was drafted 54th overall in the 2nd round of the 2006 draft by the New York Rangers. The 31-year old Smith was drafted 79th overall in the 3rd round of the 2008 draft by the
report this ad In today’s NHL rumor rundown there is news out of Vancouver as it pertains to both Sven Baertschi and Loui Eriksson, the Dallas Stars are trying to trade a defenseman, the Chicago Blackhawks shopping a forward and the Nashville Predators are rethinking the notion of moving Kyle Turris. Baertschi Will Be Ready,
© Aaron Doster-USA TODAY Sports The Chicago Blackhawks have traded defenseman Henri Jokiharju to the Buffalo Sabres for forward Alex Nylander. The 20-year old Jokiharju was drafted 29th overall in the first round of the 2017 draft by the Chicago Blackhawks. The 21-year old Nylander was drafted 8th overall in the first round of the
© Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports Maroon really, really wants to stay Lou Korac: Unrestricted free agent forward Patrick Maroon really wants to stay in St. Louis but limited salary cap space likely won’t allow it to happen. The Blues need to lock up some of their restricted free agents. Maroon would like to wait until