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5 days ago | 
espn.co.uk | Ryan Clark |Kristen Shilton
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Champagne was swilled and spilled, cigars were smoked and the Stanley Cup was hoisted a few more times, all with about 400,000 people watching. The Florida Panthers are getting pretty good at these parades. The back-to-back Stanley Cup champions had their championship parade and rally on Fort Lauderdale Beach on Sunday, the same setup as last year -- except this time, bright sunshine greeted the champs as opposed to downpours and lightning a year ago.
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1 week ago | 
espn.in | Rachel Doerrie |Greg Wyshynski |Ryan Clark |Kristen Shilton
SUNRISE, Fla. -- The Florida Panthers repeated as Stanley Cup champions by beating the Edmonton Oilers 5-1 in Game 6 of the final on Tuesday night, becoming the NHL's first back-to-back winners since Tampa Bay in 2020 and '21 and the third team to do it this century. Sam Reinhart scored four goals, becoming just the fourth player in league history to get that many in a game in the final. His third to complete the hat trick sent rats, along with hats, flying onto the ice.
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4 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Ryan Clark |Kristen Shilton
PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia Flyers have signed forward Tyson Foerster to a two-year contract worth $7.5 million. General manager Daniel Briere announced the extension Thursday. Foerster will count $3.75 million annually against the salary cap in the 2025-26 and 2026-27 NHL seasons.
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1 month ago | 
espn.in | Greg Wyshynski |Ryan Clark |Kristen Shilton |Rachel Doerrie
The Philadelphia Flyers are closing in on hiring Rick Tocchet as their next head coach, sources confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday. Tocchet, 61, spent parts of 11 seasons with the Flyers during his playing career. He is expected to rejoin the franchise to effectively replace John Tortorella, who was fired in March with the team limping toward its fifth straight season without a playoff berth. Editor's PicksNHL head coach hiring tiers: Who will get a new job this summer?
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1 month ago | 
espn.in | Ryan Clark |Kristen Shilton
The New York Rangers are in advanced contract talks to make former Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan the next head coach, sources told ESPN's Emily Kaplan and Kevin Weekes on Thursday. The deal is expected to be one of the richest coaching contracts in NHL history, the sources said. Sullivan would head to New York in a move that is coming together three days after he left his job with Pittsburgh, where he coached for 10 seasons and won back-to-back Stanley Cups in 2016 and 2017.
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1 month ago | 
espn.co.uk | Ryan Clark |Kristen Shilton
The 2024-25 NHL regular season is over and the playoffs are underway.. This is the place where we look ahead to the offseason for all the teams eliminated from contention: Who will those teams try to add via free agency, trades and the draft? How much better will the team be in 2025-26? Read on for a look at what went wrong for each eliminated team, along with a breakdown of the biggest keys this offseason and realistic expectations for next season.
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2 months ago | 
espn.in | Ryan Clark |Kristen Shilton |Greg Wyshynski
The Dallas Stars will begin the playoffs without top goal scorer Jason Robertson, who suffered a lower-body injury in their last regular-season game, coach Pete DeBoer said Friday. Robertson is week-to-week, which rules him out for at least the first few games of the opening-round series against the Colorado Avalanche. DeBoer didn't provide any additional details about the injury. Game 1 is Saturday night in Dallas.
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Mar 15, 2025 | 
espn.co.uk | Ryan Clark |Rachel Doerrie
Each of the teams in the Eastern Conference playoff mix has 15 to 17 games remaining in the regular season. Three teams in the Atlantic Division have all but clinched their spots -- the Florida Panthers, Toronto Maple Leafs and Tampa Bay Lightning -- and two from the Metro are essentially shoo-ins, the Washington Capitals and Carolina Hurricanes. The New Jersey Devils are knocking on that door, and a current three-game winning streak certainly helps.
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Mar 14, 2025 | 
espn.co.uk | Ryan Clark |Rachel Doerrie
As has been the case for the past few campaigns, the Central Division includes multiple top-tier Stanley Cup contenders this season. Going simply by points percentage, the Central boasts the second- (Winnipeg Jets) and third-best (Dallas Stars) teams in the league, as well as the eighth (Colorado Avalanche).
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
espn.co.uk | Greg Wyshynski |Ryan Clark |Kristen Shilton
DETROIT -- Buffalo's Alex Tuch and Detroit captain Michael Rasmussen were the first to drop the gloves in the fight-filled third period of the Red Wings' 7-3 victory Wednesday night. They weren't even among the 11 players assessed 10-minute misconduct penalties in the final frame. Six were from Buffalo, the other five from Detroit. The final tally from the third: 136 of the game's 150 penalty minutes, all but two of those either roughing, fighting or misconducts.
