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Wild extend goalie Fleury for age-40 season
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Wednesday, 17 April 2024 10:45
EmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Wild signed goalie Marc-Andre Fleury to a one-year, $2.5 million contract extension Wednesday, bringing back the veteran for his age-40 season.Fleury, who turns 40 on Nov. 28, has had a prolific season in which he passed Patrick Roy for second place behind Martin Brodeur on the NHL 's all-time list in career…
Canadiens extend coach St. Louis 2 more years
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Wednesday, 17 April 2024 09:44
EmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsThe Canadiens exercised the two-year option on Martin St. Louis' contract Wednesday, keeping the head coach behind the bench in Montreal through the 2026-27 season.St. Louis, 48, guided the Canadiens to a 30-36-16 record this season, resulting in the third consecutive campaign in which the team failed to qualify for the playoffs since reaching the 2021 Stanley Cup…
Wyshynski: Why Nikita Kucherov has the best case for the Hart Trophy
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Wednesday, 17 April 2024 08:02
EmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsNikita Kucherov of the Tampa Bay Lightning deserves to win the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player this season.The beautiful thing about making that kind of declarative statement about the 2023-24 MVP race? This might be the most "no wrong answers" Hart Trophy debate in recent memory.Does Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon have an MVP case…
10 NHL contenders, 10 comps to previous Stanley Cup champs: Title blueprints for each team
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Wednesday, 17 April 2024 09:26
EmailOpen Extended ReactionsWhen the NHL playoffs start Saturday, they'll be dropping the puck on the most wide-open race for the Stanley Cup in four decades -- if not longer.Comparing ESPN BET's title odds with historical data from earlier seasons, the Carolina Hurricanes (at +600) are on track to be the weakest pre-playoff championship favorite since at least 1984-85 -- the…
Edwards, longtime voice of Bruins, set to retire
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Tuesday, 16 April 2024 18:00
EmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsBOSTON -- Jack Edwards is retiring after 19 years as the Boston Bruins' play-by-play announcer, the team announced Tuesday.Edwards has described the position broadcasting for the Bruins on NESN as his "dream job," which he started in 2005 after spending more than a decade at ESPN. He will continue calling Bruins games through the end of the playoffs.Edwards,…
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