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The Arizona Coyotes and Their Long Journey to Nowhere
Over the last 26 seasons, the Arizona Coyotes have at times been bankrupt, ownerless, a ward of the N.H.L., the subject of relocation rumors, and, more recently, in a prickly relationship with the...
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Will N.H.L. Stars Play at the Winter Olympics?
It seemed as if everything was settled. N.H.L. players were returning to the Olympic men’s hockey tournament after missing the last Winter Games. Now, in part because of escalating Covid-19 cases...
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Alex Ovechkin Is Chasing Wayne Gretzky’s Goals Record
WASHINGTON — The Washington Capitals have a locker room tradition to honor player milestones, led by Peter Laviolette, their coach. When someone records a notable assist or pots his first career goal,...
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N.H.L. Players Will Skip Beijing Olympics
National Hockey League players will not participate in the 2022 Beijing Olympics, a reversal of plans announced in September and a signal of the fears rippling through sports about how the worsening...
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World Junior Championship, a Showcase for Hockey’s Top Prospects, Is Canceled
The World Junior Championship, an annual showcase of the next generation of hockey stars, which was already underway in Canada, was canceled on Wednesday as the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of...
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Death of High School Hockey Player Renews Debate on Neck Guards
Expressions of grief after the death of Teddy Balkind, a high school hockey player in Connecticut, have spanned the ice hockey world, from pregame moments of silence in New England to tributes on...
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Will N.H.L. Stars Play at the Winter Olympics?
It seemed as if everything was settled. N.H.L. players were returning to the Olympic men’s hockey tournament after missing the last Winter Games. Now, in part because of escalating Covid-19 cases...
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This Website Ranks Youth Hockey Teams, Even for 9-Year-Olds
It was after midnight in the middle of a November week, and Neil Lodin, the founder of MYHockey Rankings, was hunched over a computer in his sparsely furnished home office, feeding the beast. The...
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World Junior Championship, a Showcase for Hockey’s Top Prospects, Is Canceled
The World Junior Championship, an annual showcase of the next generation of hockey stars, which was already underway in Canada, was canceled on Wednesday as the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of...
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Leadership Advice from the Coach of America’s ‘Worst’ Hockey Team
John Bacon got more satisfaction from coaching a bad hockey team than he did playing for a good one. In his new book, “Let Them Lead: Unexpected Lessons in Leadership from America’s Worst High School...
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Hockey Fan Spots Cancerous Mole at Game and Delivers a Lifesaving Note
Nadia Popovici kept shifting her eyes from the hockey game to the back of Brian Hamilton’s neck. Mr. Hamilton, an assistant equipment manager for the Vancouver Canucks, had a small mole there. It...
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Connecticut High School Hockey Player Dies After Fall on the Rink
A high school student in Connecticut died after he was severely hurt during a junior varsity ice hockey game on Thursday, officials said, leaving his team and school community reeling from his death....
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Death of High School Hockey Player Renews Debate on Neck Guards
Expressions of grief after the death of Teddy Balkind, a high school hockey player in Connecticut, have spanned the ice hockey world, from pregame moments of silence in New England to tributes on...
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Clark Gillies, Rugged Star on Islanders’ Championship Teams, Dies at 67
Clark Gillies, the rugged Hall of Fame left wing who helped take the Islanders to four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in the early 1980s, died on Friday at his home in Greenlawn on Long Island....
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Robin Herman, Who Pried Open Doors in the N.H.L., Dies at 70
Equal access to locker rooms did not become standard in the N.H.L. for about a decade, with the Toronto Maple Leafs as the league’s lone holdout as late as 1987. The team’s owner, Harold Ballard, even...
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Canada Hockey Players Wear Masks, Hinting at Mistrust of Russia
BEIJING — The concern manifested most obviously in the masks, the ones suddenly worn on the benches, by the referees and, remarkably, by the women playing Olympic hockey. The Beijing Games, cloaked in...
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Emile Francis Dies at 95; Rebuilt N.H.L.’s Rangers as Coach and G.M.
Emile Francis, a battle-scarred goaltender who played sparingly for lowly Rangers teams before rebuilding the franchise as its coach and general manager in a Hall of Fame hockey career spanning half a...
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Emile Francis Built the Rangers His Way
But that was Emile’s way, and it was always a team effort. He was obsessed with not having anything out of place. I attended training camp one fall in Kitchener, Ontario, with my wife and my infant...
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Chris Kreider of the Rangers Is Getting Better With Age
It was a typical day of practice for Chris Kreider, another morning skate at the Rangers’ facility in Tarrytown, N.Y., like hundreds before it. Toward the end, Kreider planted himself in front of Igor...
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Alex Ovechkin Skates Into Canada’s Ukrainian Enclave as a Scorned Star
The hockey star Alex Ovechkin, center among Russian professional athletes in the public’s anger over the war in Ukraine, played before the most unsympathetic crowd yet. Ovechkin, President Vladimir V....
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