Hockey Hall of Famer Cliff Fletcher, who built the Calgary Flames' 1989 Stanley Cup championship team, died at age 90, the Toronto Maple Leafs announced on Friday.
- Mike Brehm USA Today
The Carolina Hurricanes became the first team since 1944 to rally for a victory after trailing by two goals with 10 minutes left in a Stanley Cup Final game.
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Seth Jarvis scores in overtime, Carolina beat Vegas to tie Stanley Cup Finals
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Here are the winners and losers of Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, a turnover-filled game that both coaches will have to address.
- JOHN DELL Winston-Salem Journal
5 questions with Joe Giglio as the Carolina Hurricanes embark on the Stanley Cup finals against Las Vegas
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'We found a way tonight' - Tortorella on Vegas' win in epic Stanley Cup Final opener.
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Claude Lemieux, NHL legend and 4-time Stanley Cup winner, tragically passed away by suicide, reminding us of the human struggles behind sporting fame.
Taylor Hall and Logan Stankoven each had two goals and an assist, Frederik Andersen stopped 23 shots, and the Hurricanes defeated the Canadians in Game 5 of the East Final.
Four‑time Stanley Cup champion and longtime NHL forward Claude Lemieux has died at age 60.
Claude Lemieux, a four-time Stanley Cup winner and clutch scorer who was renowned for his role as an agitator on the ice, has died at age 60.
The Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Colorado Avalanche 2-1 in Game 4 of the Western Conference Final to complete the sweep and advance to the Stanley Cup Final.
The Buffalo Sabres‘ win over the Montreal Canadiens in Game 5 of their NHL playoff series Tuesday meant one thing for the Carolina Hurricanes: a longer wait. The Sabres’ victory tied their Stanley Cup Playoffs series with the Canadiens at two games apiece. It also extended the second-round series — with the Canes sitting in Raleigh awaiting the winner. Nothing new for the Hurricanes. After ...
Before the Yankees' home opener, USA Olympic gold medal hockey stars Jack Hughes and Aerin Frankel threw out ceremonial first pitches at Yankee Stadium.
The U.S. defeated Canada 2-1 in the gold medal final at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Sunday to earn the nation’s third men’s title at the Games.
The Florida Panthers won their second straight NHL Stanley Cup championship on Tuesday night, defeating the Edmonton Oilers 5-1 to win the finals four games to two.
Hockey fans could be seen celebrating in South Florida locations including the Elbow Room bar in Fort Lauderdale, which was packed with hockey fans watching the championship game.
A record many thought would never be broken topples, as Alex Ovechkin buries the power play goal to score career goal #895, cementing him as the NHL's leader in goals scored all-time!
Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin scores goal number 894, tying Wayne Gretzky for the most goals in NHL history, and gets a standing ovation from Capitals fans.
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Alex Ovechkin has 26 goals this season and 879 career goals. The Washington Capitals captain is now 16 away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL goals record.
Associated Press photographers centered much of their energy this past week on the Paralympic Games in Paris. The results from Christophe Ena and Emilio Morenatti are eye-popping.
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The 31-year-old Gaudreau and his younger brother, Matthew, 29, were hit by a suspected drunk driver, police said. They were in New Jersey for their sister's wedding scheduled for Friday.
While New Era had been working with individual hockey teams for decades, including the Buffalo Sabres, this is the first agreement it came to with the league.
“When I lifted it, I started shaking a little bit because you realize you are lifting the Stanley Cup itself. My heart was racing, and it was just a great experience.”
Two weeks after Comcast dropped Major League Baseball games aired by Bally Sports, the league cast doubt on Bally's plan to emerge from bankruptcy.
“It's such a full-circle moment,” Laila Anderson. “I thought it was cool that we were both the underdogs going into this. The Blues started in last place. And we weren't the top team.”
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has a tentative agreement with the parent company of the NBA's Washington Wizards and NHL's Washington Capitals to move those teams out of D.C. to northern Virginia. Youngkin, a Republican, says the plan calls for a $2 billion sports and entertainment complex in Alexandria, across the Potomac from the nation's capital. Monumental Sports & Entertainment CEO Ted Leonsis appeared with Youngkin at a Wednesday news conference and endorsed the proposal. Monumental also owns the WNBA's Mystics. Leonsis says Capital One Arena, where the Wizards and Capitals currently play, could host women's sports and other events. District officials have made a counterproposal aimed at keeping the men's teams.
The British government has apologized to the families of 97 Liverpool soccer fans who died after a stadium crush 34 years ago. The apology came Wednesday as it introduced a charter it said will sharply diminish the chances that others will endure the kinds of injustices they suffered. However, it refused to back calls from campaigners to legally require public bodies, including police, to tell the truth and proactively cooperate with official investigations and inquiries in cases of public disasters. The Hillsborough disaster happened on April 15, 1989. More than 2,000 Liverpool fans at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield were allowed to flood into a standing-room section behind a goal with the stadium already nearly full.
Police in England have arrested a man on suspicion of manslaughter in the death of American ice hockey player Adam Johnson whose neck was cut by a skate during a game.

