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Lamine Yamal has issued a statement in response to racist chants that were heard during Spain’s friendly with Egypt on Tuesday night at the RCDE Stadium in Barcelona. Spanish police have confirmed they are investigating “Islamophobic and xenophobic” chants that were heard during the first half of the draw. Yamal has now issued a statement […]
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In a statement on Wednesday morning, the Edmonton Oilers announced they are blacking out playoff games on television – but there’s a catch. The game telecast will start once the Oilers Community Foundation’s 50/50 pot reaches a minimum of $1 million. If the pot doesn’t hit the mark, no Oilers hockey will be seen on…
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This is your daily thread to talk about the latest hockey news. BLACKHAWKS RECAPS: Jets 4, Blackhawks 3 ( SCH ) ( Sun-Times ) ( Tribune ) Fighting, hitting, defending teammates: Young Blackhawks learning NHL’s physical game ( Athletic ) Why did the Blackhawks practice fighting? To “learn how to protect ourselves” ( Sun-Times ) Jeff Blashill is right to use Blackhawks’ final games for experimentation ( Sun-Times ) Why Bedard’s offensive growth with Blackhawks stems...
The Florida Panthers exploded for five first period goals and cruised to 6-3 victory over the Ottawa Senators at Amerant Bank Arena. Florida opened the scroring just eight seconds in, which is a new franchise record. After Tomas Nosek won to opening draw back to Seth Jones, the defenseman sent the puck languidly into the Ottawa zone off a Senator. A whiff by Linus Ullmark allowed the puck to drift into the slot, where a lucky Noah Gregor fired it off Ullmark’s arm and into the back of the...
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The Vegas Golden Knights made the decision over the weekend to fire head coach Bruce Cassidy and replace him with John Tortorella with eight games remaining in the regular season. On the surface, it might be surprising to some. After all, Cassidy is one of the best head coaches in the entire league. Cassidy won […]
Good morning Gang Green Nation! Today is the first day of April – April Fool’s Day. When consuming media today, it’s probably a good idea to proceed with an extra dollop of skepticism. Something that’s not a prank that some of you may have never seen will be in prime viewing form next week. If […]
Here are your links for today: Devils Links “It will be interesting to see if the Devils do look to hire someone solely for the president of hockey operations title this summer, and whether that would allow Fitzgerald to stick around for at least one more season as GM and assess him from there. The […]
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins are heating up, currently on a four-game winning streak after taking care of business in both of their games this week. From WBSPenguins: Saturday, Mar. 28 – PENGUINS 3 vs. Laval 1Wilkes-Barre/Scranton avenged its loss to Laval the week prior, restoring balance to The Force on Star Wars Night. Avery Hayes gave the […]
The Pittsburgh Penguins have positioned themselves nicely for a potential playoff spot with their back-to-back big wins against the New York Islanders and the Detroit Red Wings. On consecutive nights, the Penguins blew past their opponents to give themselves a much better chance of making the playoffs now than they had just 48 hours prior. […]
On Tuesday, a pair of the league’s citizenship awards were announced. Two members of the Silver & Black received nominations. Harrison Barnes was nominated as an NBA Sportsmanship Award Finalist. The award is given to a player who most “exemplifies the ideals of sportsmanship on the court with ethical behavior, fair play, and integrity.” He was nominated […]
Less than two years ago, the Toronto Maple Leafs fired Sheldon Keefe and replaced him with Craig Berube. The New Jersey Devils then immediately hired Keefe. Both coaches led their respective teams to the playoffs in year one. Both teams entered this season with genuine Stanley Cup aspirations. And now both are sitting near the bottom of the Eastern Conference, both are widely expected to miss the playoffs, and both coaches are looking at significant uncertainty about th...
Here are your Pens Points for this Wednesday morning… I dubbed Monday’s Pens Points headline as “A season-defining back-to-back.” Forty-eight hours after that was published, the Penguins came out the other side of that B2B with two dominant regulation wins, beating the Islanders on Monday and the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday by a combined […]
NHL Player of the Month: Cole Caufield Several Canadiens players had incredible performances in March, a month in which the team only lost five times, and four of those were to either the San Jose Sharks or Anaheim Ducks. They played a lot of games of critical importance to the playoff race in the Eastern Conference and won every one of those games save a loss to the Detroit Red Wings. There were three legitimate candidates to claim this honour this time, but the winner is the one wh...
Robert Lewandowski was left feeling pretty emotional after seeing Poland miss out on a spot at World Cup 2026 following a play-off defeat to Sweden on Tuesday night. Poland lost 3-2 in the final in a game which saw Viktor Gyokeres score a late winner to break Poland hearts and send the Swedes to the […]
*Once again did the Flyers HAVE to win last night? No. Not technically. But it would’ve both made a statement and made the road to the playoffs a little easier, so naturally they went out there and lost another game to another Metro Division rival. Rare stinker from Vladar. Recap . *Ahead of last night’s game we speculated on a few ways Porter Martone could made an instant impact on his new team. In hindsight, how’d we do? [ BSH ] *Apparently Martone drew quite a crowd to the trainin...
Last week’s announcement that Mercyhurst University is eliminating its men’s hockey program was a gut punch—one that’s hard to stomach and one that deserves serious reconsideration.The vast majority of the college hockey world was introduced to Mercyhurst on March 24, 2001 when the Lakers pushed Michigan to the brink in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Mercyhurst fell 4-3 after surrendering...
Montreal Canadiens news and notes Cole Caufield can become the Montreal player to hit the 50-goal milestone since 1990. [ NHL.com ] Four years after Martin St-Louis took over as head coach, Habs players now understand exactly what he expects from them. [ Montreal Gazette ] The Habs are turning to Arber Xhekaj to fill-in for Alexandre Carrier. [ Sportsnet | La Presse ] A look at the Canadiens’ potential first-round opponents. [ The Hockey Writers ] Montreal’s goaltend...
We continue where we left off in part one and cover the last five victories over that lot! Which We haven’t attempted to put our pet hates into Room 101 for a while so Martin & Jonny fire up their inner grumpiness and try and convince Chris to put things that annoy them in part […]
TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button joined SC with Jay Onrait to discuss.
For the first time this season, the Edmonton Oilers have won four consecutive games. On Tuesday evening, the Oilers played the second of four games at home, defeating the Seattle Kraken by a score of 3-0, their fifth shutout of the season. It was also the second time the Oilers have shut out the Kraken….
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The Blackhawks rallied from a 3-1 deficit to force overtime but could not pick up the victory, losing 4-3 to the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night at the United Center. About five minutes into the first period, Chicago went ahead 1-0 on the first NHL goal of Anton Frondell’s career: GOAL: Anton Frondell scores his first NHL goal on Connor Hellebuyck. pic.twitter.com/0aaHJcgbka — BHF (@BlackhawksFocus) April 1, 2026 That lead remained until early in the second period, when Jos...