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Nick Robertson Isn't Committing to Re-Signing With Maple Leafs

The Toronto Maple Leafs put on a dismal performance throughout the entire regular season, missing the Stanley Cup Playoffs in surprising fashion. Forward Nick Robertson is one of the many players who aren't likely to return next season, and as a pending restricted free agent, Robertson isn't shy talking about the elephant in the room. Robertson spoke to the media to finish out the year, and made it very clear, he's unsure what the future holds. The pesky winger has been in and out of the lineu...

Game 1 Aftermath: How the game was lost for the Penguins

The Pittsburgh Penguins played a disjointed opening game against the Flyers and ended up falling 3-2 to their instate rivals to kick off their 2026 playoff series. Where’d it all go wrong (aside from just about everything in the first 20-55 minutes?) Let’s take a look. They weren’t alone in it, but the Sam Girard […]

‘He’s a stud’: Flyers react to impressive Game 1 win over Penguins

The Philadelphia Flyers were able to walk away from Game 1 of the first round against the Pittsburgh Penguins — the team’s first playoff game since 2020 and the first ever for so many players on this team — with a very impressive 3-2 win. But it made a larger impact than just putting them up 1-0 in the series, several players were raving about the win and how impressive some individual performances were. Denver Barkey battles the big guy Flyers winger Denver Barkey isn’t a big g...

Game One: Canadiens at Lightning – Start off on the right foot

Game One: Montreal Canadiens (0-0) at Tampa Bay Lightning (0-0) Time: 5:45 PM EST Location: Benchmark International Arena, Tampa, Florida TV/Stream/Radio: The Spot, TNT, HBOMax, TruTV, ESPN+, 102.5 FM, Lightning App Odds: Lightning -185 Know the Opponents: Habs Eyes on the Prize The previews are done . We’ve talked all we can on how we think this series is going to go, and now it’s time for the action on the ice. After a long, fairly successful season that had a f...

Sunday Stanley Cup Playoffs GameThread

COLORADO AVALANCHE vs. LOS ANGELES KINGS WHEN:  3 p.m. ET WHERE:  Ball Arena – Denver, CO SEASON SERIES:  Colorado won 3-0 ON THE TUBE:  TNT PROJECTED STARTERS:  Avalanche: Wedgewood (31-6-6 .921 / 2.02 4SO) Kings: Forsberg (16-12-5 .910 / 2.57 3SO) PLAYER STATS:  Colorado  /  Los Angeles TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING vs. MONTREAL CANADIENS WHEN:  5:45 p.m. ET WHERE:  Benchmark International Arena – Tampa, FL...

New York Jets Flight Connections 04/19/26

Happy Sunday, Jets fans! Here are your links as this weekend draws to its conclusion. Connor Long – How early could the NY Jets select a quarterback in the NFL draft? Connor Long – Configuring the New York Jets depth chart with David Bailey Connor Long – NY Jets legend Curtis Martin to announce 2026 […]

Flyers’ Porter Martone wanted to ‘make a splash’ in Game 1 and he sure did

They didn’t take the easy route, nearly coughing up a two-goal lead with just over a minute to go but in the end, the Philadelphia Flyers took Game 1 with an impressive 3-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins to take the series lead one game to none. Winger Porter Martone played his first playoff game, and got his first goal. To put icing on the already lovely cake thus far, it was the game-winner. Martone told ESPN’s Emily Kaplan immediately after the game he wanted to have an impact wi...

Canadiens @ Lightning Round 1 Game 1: Preview, start time, Tale of the Tape, and how to watch

2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Eastern Conference QFs Game 1: Montreal Canadiens (A3) @ Tampa Bay Lightning (A2) Start time:  **5:45 PM EDT / 2:45 PM PDT** In Canada: CBC, Sportsnet (English), TVA Sports (French) In the United States: TNT, truTV In the Lightning region: The Spot Streaming: HBO Max , Sportsnet+ After a rough start to the 2024-25 season, the Canadiens had to exhaust their energy reserves over the final third of the season just to make the playoffs. It took winni...

NHL teams watching for what Anthony Mantha does in the playoffs

There was a fun nugget in Elliotte Friedman’s recent 32 Thoughts The Penguins are one of the league’s great stories and they are fun to watch. One scout said Anthony Mantha may be the most-watched player by other teams in Round 1 Mantha had a career-best season, exploding for 33 goals and 64 points, while […]

Sunday Habs Headlines: The importance of the second line

Montreal Canadiens news and notes Alexandre Texier and Ivan Demidov are prepared to be difference-makers in their second-line roles. [ La Presse ] The difference between the 2021 series versus the Tampa Bay Lightning and the one the Canadiens are about to start today is that Montreal has spent the past five years adding skill to the lineup through the draft, explains Phillip Danault. [ RDS ] Juraj Slafkovský on facing his friend, Erik Cernak, in the opening round: “I’m going t...

Dan Wilson leverages bullpen in 7-3 win over Rangers

Dan Wilson managed to shut down the Rangers just long enough. The Mariners snapped a pair of losing streaks on Saturday. They entered the day having lost four straight games. They also entered the day having lost four straight to the Rangers, dating back to last week’s sweep in Arlington. With another strong start from […]

Flyers suffocated the Penguins to earn massive Game 1 win

The Philadelphia Flyers lead their first round series against the hated Pittsburgh Penguins 1-0 because of a significant 3-2 win in Game 1. It was just about all you could hope for but the prize of it all — the reason that we can sit back and think about how the Flyers have won the opening game of this series is because of a team-wide commitment to squeezing the life out of everyone wearing black and gold. Coming into this series, this was one of the key advantages that the Flyers had ove...

Luck Favours The Prepared

By now, everyone has heard the comments made by various Winnipeg Jets as they cleaned out their lockers, and it seemed like there general consensus that the Jets have to get younger and faster. Whether that happens will be seen in the future, but there was a good display of how old and slow plays against younger and faster tonight as the Minnesota Wild opened their series against the Dallas Stars by punching them square in the mouth via their 6-1 win. This game was over before the halfway poin...

Takeaways: Flyers snatch Game 1 in gutsy 3-2 win over Penguins

Playoff hockey is back in Philadelphia, and the Flyers kicked off the new era with a 3-2 win in Pittsburgh. They now have home-ice advantage for the remainder of the series, and will go back to Philadelphia with the series at least tied 1-1 before Game 3. The basics First period: No scoring  Second period: 9:19 – Jamie Drysdale (Trevor Zegras, Denver Barkey), 15:51 – Evgeni Malkin (Tommy Novak, Rickard Rakell)  Third period: 10:00 – Travis Sanheim (Rasmus Ristolai...