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A mixture of champions, engine builders and innovators highlight the five newest nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The new nominees announced on Wednesday are 1999 Sprint Cup champion and ESPN analyst Dale Jarrett, engine builder Maurice Petty, Speedway Motorsports Inc. chairman Bruton Smith, 1960 Cup champion Rex White...

The Carolina Hurricanes say goalie Cam Ward will miss six to eight weeks with a sprained knee ligament. The team announced Ward's diagnosis Monday and said the former All-Star goalie will not require surgery. The team says Ward suffered a third-degree sprain to his medial collateral ligament midway through the second...

Jan. 1 - Winter Classic: Chicago at Washington.Jan. 22-26 - All-Star break.Feb. 21 - Stadium Series: Los Angeles vs. San Jose at Santa Clara, Calif.April 11 - Regular season ends.

Associated PressPearson gets goal, scores again in SO; Kings top CanucksBy ABBEY MASTRACCOLOS ANGELES (AP) Tanner Pearson scored for the fourth time this season and got the lone shootout goal, lifting the Los Angeles Kings over the previously unbeaten Vancouver Canucks 4-3 on Saturday night.Alexander Edler tied it...

Surely, if the Washington Capitals were going to make the playoffs, it would come down to the wire. Their start was so terrible that even an optimistic die-hard would figure that, with the right breaks, perhaps, they could steal a berth in the final game of the regular season. Yet...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) The New Jersey Devils have signed goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood to a three-year entry-level contract.Executive vice president and general manager Ray Shero did not announce the financial terms of the deal on Wednesday.Blackwood was selected by New Jersey in the second round of last summer's draft....

The Columbus Blue Jackets have activated forward Brandon Dubinsky after he missed 11 games with a knee injury. Dubinsky, who is available when the club opens a five-game homestand on Tuesday night against Vancouver, was injured in the Blue Jackets' Feb. 16 game at Phoenix. The 26-year-old, acquired in the...

Despite a lockout that wiped out the entire preseason and 34 regular-season games, NHL teams instituted the largest ticket percentage increase among the pro hockey league, the NBA and the NFL for the second consecutive season, according to an annual study by Team Marketing Report, a Chicago-based sports marketing...

NEW YORK (AP) The New York Rangers scored three goals in the first period to lay the foundation for a 6-3 victory over St. Louis on Friday in a predictably high-scoring encounter between two of the early-season pacesetters in the NHL.The Rangers remained four points clear atop the...

Patrick Kane had a couple shots that simply could not be stopped. Just like the Chicago Blackhawks. Chicago extended its NHL-record season-opening points streak to 22 games Sunday when Kane scored the tying goal on a power play with 2:02 left in regulation and the Blackhawks earned an extra point when...

ANAHEIM, California (AP) Mikkel Boedker scored on a breakaway 1:18 into overtime after an atrocious turnover by Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf, and the Arizona Coyotes snapped Anaheim's four-game winning streak with a 4-3 victory Monday.Rookie forward Max Domi scored twice during a three-goal second period for the Coyotes,...

The NHL and NHL Players' Association have agreed to change this season's escrow rate to 20 percent, sources confirmed to ESPN.com. That's up from the 10 percent rate both sides had agreed upon in late January shortly after the season began. The change comes as a result of lower than originally...