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The Pittsburgh Penguins opened training camp Monday after voluntarily sidelining nine players who may have had secondary exposure to a person testing positive for COVID-19. The Penguins did not reveal which players were held out as a precautionary measure. The NHL has barred teams from revealing injury or illness information as a way to protect

Georges Laraque has to be the world’s most interesting NHL enforcer: he combined heavy fists with a light touch around the net for 14 years in the show. He’s also an inspirational figure in the effort to rid hockey of racism. He’s a potent ally of LGBTQ communities. He’s vegan. He was deputy leader of

EDMONTON—The Edmonton Oilers returned to the ice Monday, but not before taking time to remember and pay tribute to teammate Colby Cave, who died in April after suffering a brain bleed. “It’s the first time we’ve all been together in a big group since Colby passed. Obviously those emotions are still fresh,” team captain Connor

Ontario’s top doctor doesn’t see COVID-19 testing capacity being an issue in the province once the NHL hunkers down in Toronto for its restart. Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, expressed confidence in the NHL plan for testing in the province. “They can go through private sources to get it done,” Williams

Max Domi has it right. For all hockey players, executives and fans. Let’s just wait and see. Domi, who has Type 1 diabetes, is going to pause for a week or so before deciding whether he wants to be part of the NHL’s ambitious restart effort. This is smart. It may not be the back-to-business

Proper pacing, staying disease-free and being ready to beat the Winnipeg Jets when the NHL reboots is the balancing act at Calgary Flames training camp, according to the team’s general manager. The Flames open training camp 2.0 Monday, which is four months plus a day after the NHL suspended the 2019-20 season for the COVID-19

Brad Treliving joked recently NHL coaches only need a couple video sessions to prepare for an opponent, find a weakness, correct a problem or add a wrinkle. So what about 142 days? “Every game might end 0-0,” the Calgary Flames general manager quipped. With summer training camps set to open Monday as the NHL lurches

Kyle Dubas could only watch as his Maple Leafs went through their paces the last few weeks. Phase 2 of the NHL’s return-to-play protocol featured voluntary on- and off-ice workouts with plenty of social distancing and, at least to start, no coaches. The players were basically on their own to set up drills, push each

Integrity. It’s the word that came up over and over on Saturday as NHL commissioner Gary Bettman touted the league’s return to play, the completion of the 2019-20 season and the idea of crowning a Stanley Cup champion in the oddest of ways, in the weirdest of circumstances. “The integrity of the return-to-play system was

Talk of whether NHL players would take the ice in Beijing at the 2022 Winter Games likely ended Friday evening with membership — reportedly 80 per cent — ratifying a return-to-play plan that includes potential Olympic participation in 2022 and 2026 along with a four-year extension of the collective bargaining agreement through September 2026. Still outstanding is

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman took offence to the notion that the league, teams or players might not abide by, or may try to evade, the COVID-19 protocol that will be an integral part to holding the Stanley Cup playoffs in Toronto and Edmonton. Notably, any player who tests positive must self-isolate and be removed from

Gary Bettman and Don Fehr finally have a chance to catch their breath. They also know plenty of hurdles remain. With the backdrop of a global pandemic and the potential for economic catastrophe just over the horizon, the NHL and the NHL Players’ Association announced Friday the two sides had ratified the plan to resume

NHL hockey this summer. NHL players in the Olympics. NHL labour peace until 2026. And it all starts Monday. The NHL players and the league’s owners each passed two complex, interlinked deals: one that outlines the return to play during the coronavirus pandemic that will crown a Stanley Cup champion this summer, and the other

The NHL is officially returning to the ice this summer. The league and its players union formally signed an agreement Friday that would see hockey return — with hub cities in Toronto and Edmonton. The sides announced they came to a tentative agreement on Monday. The agreement includes the potential to return to the Olympics in

With the NHL and NHL Players’ Association reportedly on the verge of signing off on a plan to return to play in Edmonton and Toronto this summer, Ontario’s premier is defending his province’s decision to try to host the league in the midst of a pandemic. Doug Ford says he’s comfortable with the NHL’s plan,

NHL owners and players reached a tentative agreement this week that, pending final approval, clears the way for the Stanley Cup playoffs to start Aug. 1, and labour peace to continue for four years. Here’s a closer look at some of the finer points: TRAINING CAMP Teams can invite up to 30 skaters plus unlimited

The NHL’s plan appears robust and detailed. Once players enter so-called “bubbles” in two hub cities later this month as part of the league’s blueprint to resuscitate its pandemic-halted season, teams should — at least in theory — be fairly well-protected from the threat of COVID-19. A 28-page document released earlier this week outlines a

The New Jersey Devils are hiring veteran coach Lindy Ruff to take over one of the NHL’s youngest teams and removing the interim tag off Tom Fitzgerald’s title as general manager, a person with knowledge of the talks told The Associated Press on Thursday. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because