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AP Hockey WriterCaps have high goal-scoring expectations for Ovechkin at 32By STEPHEN WHYNOARLINGTON, Va. (AP) Alex Ovechkin has scored 50 goals so regularly that finishing with 30-something was a disappointment.Ovechkin is responsible for seven of the 20 times any player has scored 50 goals in a season since...

Associated PressIn Shanghai, LA Kings win 1st NHL preseason game in ChinaBy JUSTIN BERGMANSHANGHAI (AP) Building on the support for winter sports in China since Beijing won the 2022 Olympics, the NHL is showcasing two preseason games in an attempt to break into a market and country unfamiliar...

AP Sports WriterThree's company; Pens eye first NHL three-peat in 35 yearsBy WILL GRAVESPITTSBURGH (AP) The parade celebrating the Pittsburgh Penguins' second straight Stanley Cup was still raging on that hot afternoon in mid-June when Mike Sullivan decided it was time to up the ante.Sure, becoming the first...

Blue Jackets lock up top-line center Wennberg for 6 yearsCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The Columbus Blue Jackets have signed free-agent center Alexander Wennberg to a six-year, $29.4 million contract.The Blue Jackets announced the deal Friday, locking up their top-line center through the 2022-23 season, with a cap hit of...

AP Sports WriterBickell signs 1-day contract to retire with BlackhawksBy JAY COHENCHICAGO (AP) Bryan Bickell has signed a one-day contract so he can retire with the Chicago Blackhawks.Bickell was selected by Chicago in the second round of the 2004 draft and spent his first nine seasons with the...

Former NHL enforcer Colton Orr finds new role in spotlightTORONTO (AP) The hardest part for Colton Orr was pretending.After duking it out many times in an NHL career that spanned almost 500 games, Orr was trying to pretend he was fighting in front of the camera as a...

Golden Knights rout Canucks 9-4 in first preseason gameVANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) By the time the Elvis Presley impersonator singing tunes between whistles had left the building, the NHL's newest franchise was already well on its way to victory in its first exhibition game.Tyler Wong scored three times...

AP Hockey WriterIn first full year under Yeo, Blues' sights still on CupBy STEPHEN WHYNOVladimir Tarasenko told the St. Louis Blues he wants to lead them to another level.After a sixth consecutive playoff appearance without a trip to the Stanley Cup Final, what is the next level for the...

Wild's Parise has ailing back, will miss at least 2 gamesST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) The Minnesota Wild will start the regular season without veteran left wing Zach Parise, who has been slowed by a back injury.General manager Chuck Fletcher said after practice Monday that Parise would not travel...

Ex-enforcer Laraque embarrassed Pens going to White HouseMONTREAL (AP) Former NHL enforcer Georges Laraque says it is ''an embarrassment'' that the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins are willing to visit President Donald Trump at the White House.Laraque, who was a black player in a predominantly white league, told...

AP Sports WriterPreds goalie Pekka Rinne eager for more after run to finalBy TERESA M. WALKERNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The fans going nuts at the biggest party in Nashville, catfish flying onto the ice and then a stirring postseason run coming to a screeching halt in Game 6 of...

AP Hockey WriterChiasson makes Capitals on camp tryout, signs 1-year dealBy STEPHEN WHYNOARLINGTON, Va. (AP) With what he called a chip on his shoulder, Alex Chiasson showed the Washington Capitals more than enough in training camp and the preseason to earn a contract.Chiasson got one Wednesday, a $660,000,...