The three-time Stanley Cup winner with Chicago desperately wanted a trade to New York. He got his wish, and will be tested Saturday when the Rangers play the Bruins, the N.H.L.’s top team.
Category: National Hockey League
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Why Jaromir Jagr Won’t Quit Playing Hockey
The former N.H.L. star recently turned 51 and is wrapping up his 35th season playing pro hockey with Rytiri Kladno of the Czech Extraliga. As the team’s owner and its biggest draw on the ice, Jagr knows his hometown club’s survival is all on him.
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Biden Labor Secretary to Depart to Run N.H.L. Players Union
Martin J. Walsh, a former mayor of Boston, was regarded as an unusually visible labor secretary.
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A Missed $140 Million Payment Sends Sports TV Negotiations Into Overdrive
The owners of the regional television channels branded as Bally Sports have nearly $9 billion in debt and owe hefty rights fees to M.L.B., N.B.A. and N.H.L. teams. Now, they’re all on the clock to find a solution.
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Bobby Hull’s Golden Hockey Career Diminished by His Troubling Dark Side
Once a star player in Chicago who changed goal scoring and how players were paid, Hull, who died Monday at 84, will rightly be remembered more for his misdeeds.
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Bobby Hull, Hockey Hall of Famer, Is Dead at 84
The third player in N.H.L. history to score at least 50 goals in a season, he spent 15 seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks.
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Hamlin’s Cardiac Arrest Highlights Danger Across Sports
The collapse of Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills has brought attention to sudden cardiac arrest and the need for the proper medical care and equipment from youth leagues to the professional ranks.
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Alex Ovechkin Has 802 Goals. Wayne Gretzky Is Next In His Sights.
With two goals against the Winnipeg Jets, Ovechkin, the Capitals winger, passed Gordie Howe on the N.H.L. career list, leaving only one player in his path to being the greatest goal scorer of all time.
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Losers No More, Devils Overshadow Rival Rangers, and Everyone Else
The Devils once relied on defense and slowing down the game to win, but this season they are keeping goals out of the net and scoring them in bunches as well.
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Borje Salming, NHL’s First Star From Sweden, Dies at 71
A Hall of Fame defenseman for the Toronto Maple Leafs, he led the way for other European hockey players in the league.
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Gary Bettman Tells Bruins That Mitchell Miller Can’t Play in the N.H.L.
On Friday, the Bruins signed the 20-year-old defenseman who was convicted in 2016 of abusing a Black classmate who had a developmental disability to an entry-level contract.