The Toronto Maple Leafs have won the 2016 NHL Draft Lottery.
The Leafs will own the top overall pick for the first time in more than 30 years.
Auston Matthews is expected to be the top pick.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have won the 2016 NHL Draft Lottery.
The Leafs will own the top overall pick for the first time in more than 30 years.
Auston Matthews is expected to be the top pick.
Bruce Boudreau has been fired as head coach of the Anaheim Ducks.
The Ducks were eliminated in the first round by the Nashville Predators.
Boudreau has won 409 regular-season games and eight division titles, but just five playoff rounds in his coaching career.
Wild GM Chuck Fletcher says interim coach John Torchetti is "definitely a very serious candidate" to be the team's permanent head coach.
Fletcher held an end-of-the-season media session Thursday, four days after the Wild were eliminated from the playoffs by the Stars. Torchetti took over for the fired Mike Yeo in February and helped turn around the Wild.
He inherited a team that had gone 1-11-2 in its previous 14 games to plummet out of the playoff picture. The Wild finished 17-15-1 under Torchetti, including the playoffs.
Tampa Bay's Ben Bishop, Washington's Braden Holtby and Los Angeles' Jonathan Quick are the finalists for the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's top goalie.
The league's GM's submitted ballots at the end of the regular season, with the top three vote-getters designated as finalists Wednesday. The winner will be announced June 22 during the NHL awards in Las Vegas.
Steven Stamkos is serving as an inspiration for the Lightning as the defending Eastern Conference champions attempt to make a deep playoff run without him.
He was back on the ice with teammates Tuesday, participating in shooting and skating drills for the first time since undergoing surgery for a blood clot discovered near his right collarbone this month.
Stamkos and coach Jon Cooper, however, stressed he is not anywhere close to being ready to face the Islanders in a second-round series that begins Wednesday night.
"Nothing's changed from the original timeline," said Stamkos, who wore a red noncontact sweater during an hourlong practice.
The NHL on Tuesday suspended Flyers forward Brayden Schenn for the first three games of the 2016-17 season for charging Capitals forward T.J. Oshie in Game 6 on Sunday.
Willie Mitchell played parts of 15 NHL seasons, and even found a way back on the ice after a knee injury kept him out for more than a year.
This time, it looks almost certain that he's gone for good.
The Panthers don't expect their captain to be back next season, and one of his closest friends on the team essentially revealed Tuesday that he thinks Mitchell's career is over. Mitchell missed the final 42 games of this season largely over concern what another brain injury would mean to his long-term health, and it's been expected for weeks that this season would be the finale.
"Willie's been a consummate professional," Panthers GM Dale Tallon said. "He's been a great captain. He's won Stanley Cups. He's given his body and soul to the game. It's hard. ... It's never easy and I'll give him all the support he can get."
Vincent Lecavalier intends to retire this summer, ending his 17-year NHL career after one last revitalizing season with the Los Angeles Kings.
The NHL's future participation in the Olympics is in doubt.
Sources have confirmed to ESPN.com that the NHL, NHL Players Association and International Ice Hockey Federation met last week, at which point the IIHF updated all parties with the news that the International Olympic Committee is balking at reimbursing some of the expenses that were paid for in the past for the league and players.
The IOC has helped cover expenses such as insurance for players and travel costs ever since NHL participation commenced in 1998 at Nagano, Japan.
The news was first reported by Inside The Games on Saturday.
Joakim Nordstrom and the Hurricanes have agreed to terms on a two-year contract extension.
The team also said Friday that it reached a deal with defenseman Jake Chelios on a one-year, two-way contract.
Nordstrom had 10 goals and 14 assists in 71 games this season for the Hurricanes, who acquired him in September in a trade with Chicago.