Pierre LeBrun

2 days ago | nytimes.com | Pierre LeBrun

Greg Cronin was stunned when he got fired as Anaheim Ducks head coach last month despite a 21-point improvement in the standings this season. But when the name of Joel Quenneville quickly surfaced as his possible successor, it took some of the sting out of it for him. "'That makes sense now,' I thought," Cronin recalled to The Athletic over the weekend.

6 days ago | nytimes.com | Eric Stephens |Pierre LeBrun

Joel Quenneville will be hired as head coach of the Anaheim Ducks, league sources told Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic on Thursday. Quenneville, a three-time Stanley Cup champion as a head coach, has been out of the NHL since 2021, when the league determined Quenneville had an "inadequate response" to allegations of sexual assault within the Chicago Blackhawks when he was coach of the team. Quenneville, 66, ranks second all-time among NHL coaches with 969 regular-season victories.

6 days ago | nytimes.com | Pierre LeBrun

TORONTO - It has been a while, to be sure. The defending Stanley Cup champions aren't a whole lot used to leaving a road city down 2-0. This is normally the moment early in a series when the Florida Panthers have swung momentum their way. They entered this second-round series with the Toronto Maple Leafs 18-9 in road playoff games since the start of the 2023 postseason, having just gone 3-0 in Tampa in the opening round.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Pierre LeBrun

Talk about good timing for the New York Islanders, winning the draft lottery just as they're in the midst of a general manager search. More precisely, they're in the market for a GM and a president of hockey operations. There seems to be some flexibility as to whether the Islanders bring in just one person for those positions or two. The first choice, according to league sources, is to get someone who can fill both portfolios.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Chris Johnston |Pierre LeBrun

TORONTO - The first game in a series between Florida and Toronto ended with Maple Leafs goaltender Anthony Stolarz in hospital for evaluation, his coach Craig Berube crying foul about the unpenalized incident that sent him there and a usual suspect likely to escape any further discipline from the NHL.