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Toronto Maple Leafs Mitch Marner speaks to the media at the Ford Performance Centre on locker cleanup day.

Of all the hate against Leafs' Mitch Marner, this accusation is the weirdest

National Post Staff · Postmedia News |Updated a day ago |3 min read Premium content

It appears Mitch Marner isn’t handling the Toronto Maple Leafs first-round playoff exit well. The alternate captain for the team, Marner had a quieter than expected performance against Boston, tallying just three points across the seven game ...

May 7, 2024; New York, New York, USA; New York Rangers center Vincent Trocheck (16) controls the puck against Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Brady Skjei (76) during the second overtime of game two of the second round of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports

Rangers outlast Hurricanes in 2 OTs, take 2-0 series edge

Field Level Media |Updated May. 8, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

Vincent Trocheck scored a power-play goal 7:24 into double overtime as the host New York Rangers beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 on Tuesday night in Game 2 of an Eastern Conference semifinal series. New York took a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven ...

Colorado Avalanche right wing Mikko Rantanen (96), right wing Valeri Nichushkin (13), centre Nathan MacKinnon (29) and defenceman Cale Makar (8) celebrate the game-tying goal scored by MacKinnon against the Dallas Stars during the third period in game one of the second round of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs at American Airlines Center in Dallas on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. - Jerome Miron / USA TODAY Sports

Avs erase 3-goal deficit in Game 1, top Stars in OT

Field Level Media |Updated a day ago |4 min read Premium content

Miles Wood scored the game-winning goal in overtime to give the visiting Colorado Avalanche a 4-3 comeback victory over the Dallas Stars in Game 1 of a Western Conference semifinal series on Tuesday. Cale Makar scored once in a three-point game while ...

Brock Boeser (No. 6) of the Vancouver Canucks attempts to check Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (No. 93) of the Edmonton Oilers away from the puck during the first period at Rogers Arena on May 3, 2021 in Vancouver.

After half a century on the back burner, might Oilers-Canucks rivalry finally be heating up?

Bruce McCurdy, Edmonton Journal · Postmedia News |Updated May. 8, 2024 |7 min read Premium content

Pre-history The year was 1974, October 6 to be precise, that time of year when preseason games are commonly held. What was different about this one was it marked the first time that teams from the fledgling World Hockey Association met with their ...

Calgary Flames GM Craig Conroy is seen prior to Round 1 of the 2023 NHL Draft in this photo from June 28, 2023 in Nashville.

Flames stay where they are, will draft ninth overall in 2024 NHL Draft

Daniel Austin · Postmedia News |Updated May. 8, 2024 |1 min read Gallery Premium content

Luck was not on the Calgary Flames ’ side. The Flames will be drafting ninth overall in the 2024 NHL Draft next month and will have an opportunity to add one of the game’s elite prospects. They finished the regular season with a 38-39-5 record, ...

Canadiens GM Kent Hughes answers questions during midseason news conference held in Montreal on Jan. 15, 2024.

Canadiens end up with No. 5 overall pick at NHL Draft Lottery

Stu Cowan, Montreal Gazette · Postmedia News |Updated May. 8, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

The Canadiens ended up with the No. 5 overall pick at Tuesday night’s NHL Draft Lottery. The San Jose Sharks won the No. 1 overall pick, followed by the Chicago Blackhawks at No. 2, the Anaheim Ducks at No. 3, the Columbus Blue Jackets at No. 4 and ...

Pearl Jam's lead vocalist Eddie Vedder performs in concert in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Nov. 3, 2011.

Pearl Jam leaves Vancouver with special Canucks message

Patrick Johnston · Postmedia News |Updated May. 8, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

Pearl Jam’s world-tour opening stand affected the Vancouver Canucks in more ways that one. There were some obvious scheduling challenges for their first-round series versus the Nashville Predators. The famed Seattle-born band played Rogers Arena on ...

Toronto players salute the crowd after the inaugural PWHL hockey game against New York.

PWHL semifinal: Setting up the Toronto-Minnesota series

Mike Ganter · Postmedia News |Updated May. 8, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

PWHL Toronto wanted no part of providing any bulletin-board material for its opponents when, by virtue of its first place finish, it was given the right to open the playoffs against either the third or fourth-place finisher in the league of their ...

File photo/ New Ottawa Senators head coach Travis Green

Green day: Travis Green is the Ottawa Senators new head coach

Bruce Garrioch · Postmedia News |Updated May. 7, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

The Ottawa Senators have turned to Travis Green to try to help their core make the next step. The Senators made it official Tuesday morning when the club named the 53-year-old Green as the new head coach and he’ll be introduced by Steve Staios, the ...

Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid (97) battles the Vancouver Canucks' Troy Stecher (51) in this file photo from Rogers Place in Edmonton on March 18, 2017. The Oilers traded for Stecher with the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday.

Behind enemy lines: Vancouver Canucks plan to "win muddy" against the Edmonton Oilers

David Staples, Edmonton Journal · Postmedia News |Updated May. 7, 2024 |6 min read Premium content

This in from former NHLer Ray Ferraro, one of hockey’s most astute announcers and a long-time B.C. resident, his belief that the Vancouver Canucks can find a way to beat the Edmonton Oilers : “In 1993 nobody would have ever picked the Islanders ...

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