The Tampa Bay Lightning trade deadline will be interesting to watch this season. Over the last several seasons, they’ve been active with deals. It started with Blake Coleman and Barclay Goodrow.
Carter Hart has been granted an indefinite leave of absence from the Philadelphia Flyers, team general manager Daniel Briere announced Tuesday.
Jason Robertson will try to extend his points streak to 17 games when the Dallas Stars open a five-game homestand against the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday.
It’s a great sign for Vaakanainen and his playing future that he’s able to give it a go in the minors on a short-term basis.
The Ducks announced that Vaakanainen was taken to the hospital for evaluation but “has full movement in his extremities and is fully conscious and alert.”
The Ducks announced Vaakanainen was taken to a local hospital and had "full movement in his extremities and is fully conscious and alert."
Vaakanainen, 23, received a two-year extension, the terms of which were not fully detailed in the announcement.
The Anaheim Ducks’ 2021-22 season is officially in the books after their final game last night. So too concludes the career of captain Ryan Getzlaf, who played his final game in the NHL on Sunday night.
The Anaheim Ducks might be hoping that the end to this season comes a lot quicker, given the way they’ve been playing lately. But the remaining games they have left are an audition of sorts for a few players looking to make a good impression ahead of the 2022-23 season.
A big move to kick things off! How’s that for a move to kick off deadline weekend? The Bruins made a big splash on Saturday evening, acquiring defenseman Hampus Lindholm from the Anaheim Ducks.
The injury bug has once again bitten the Boston Bruins this season. For the better part of the last five seasons, the Bruins have had an absurd number of injuries that have caused them to dig deep into their depth chart to fill spots.
In 2021-22, the Boston Bruins’ defense has seen its share of highs and lows. There are the obvious highs of Charlie McAvoy and his continued ascent to becoming an elite NHL defenseman.
Drafting in the NHL is anything but easy. Identifying raw tools and ability and theorizing how it may translate to the NHL level is one thing; actually seeing how these tools and abilities translate when the game is quicker and more grueling is a whole other thing, though.
If all goes well, Connor Clifton and Derek Forbort could return Jan. 18 against Carolina, the Bruins' first game after the conclusion of what could be five-day quarantines for them.
The Boston Bruins are a team that fell just short of a Stanley Cup championship two years ago, and the franchise is eager to get back and try to win it again this year.
Vaakanainen will grab the headlines here, especially after his name was included in trade speculation recently. The 21-year-old defenseman was a first-round pick in 2017 but has played just seven NHL games to this point.
21-year-old Urho Vaakanainen was the 17th overall pick back in 2017 but hasn’t seen much action in the NHL since then, getting into just two games with Boston in 2018-19 and five last season.
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