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Bruins contingent heading to China on 1st team visit thereBOSTON (AP) A Boston Bruins contingent is heading to China.Players are making the team's first-ever official visit there and will tour Beijing and Shanghai. The trip starts Monday and runs through July 23.Left winger Matt Beleskey and right winger...

AP Sports WriterBlues beat Bruins 3-2 in OT, tie Stanley Cup at game apieceBy JIMMY GOLENBOSTON (AP) Blues defenseman Carl Gunnarsson bumped into coach Craig Berube in the bathroom before the start of overtime and told him: ''I just need one more.''''He hit the post in the third...

Aliu expects “big change?? after meeting with BettmanTORONTO (AP) Former NHL forward Akim Aliu expects ''big change'' in hockey after a meeting with top league executives Tuesday.Aliu met with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly in Toronto to discuss his allegation that former Calgary Flames...

Bill Dineen, former hockey player and coach, dies at 84TORONTO (AP) Bill Dineen, the hockey icon who played with and later coached Gordie Howe, has died. He was 84.The American Hockey League confirmed in a statement that Dineen died Saturday at his home in Lake George, New York.Dineen,...

AP Sports WriterBruins score 4 in 1st to chase Holtby, beat Capitals 7-3By JIMMY GOLENBOSTON (AP) The Boston Bruins had one goal taken away by an inadvertent whistle, and the Capitals were about to go on the power play.Boston's four first-period goals had chased Washington starter Braden Holtby,...

AP Hockey WriterPanarin, Bobrovsky, Duchene among many on the move in NHLBy LARRY LAGEThe St. Louis Blues will look a lot like the team that won the franchise's first Stanley Cup when the puck drops for the NHL's season-opening game against the 2018 champion Washington Capitals.Ryan O'Reilly, who won...

AP Hockey WriterAP source: Senators assistant GM Lee arrested in BuffaloBy JOHN WAWROWBUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) A person with direct knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press that Ottawa Senators assistant general manager Randy Lee is being charged with harassment following an altercation that occurred during a shuttle...

NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Rangers keep on winning, even without Henrik Lundqvist. They are just using different methods without their No. 1 goalie.Martin St. Louis scored two goals and added one in the shootout for the Rangers, who blew a three-goal lead but won for the...

AP Sports WriterOvechkin has goal and assist, Capitals beat Lightning 4-2By FRED GOODALLTAMPA, Fla. (AP) There was no letdown for the Washington Capitals. Just more winning hockey.Putting an emotional second-round victory over playoff nemesis and two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh behind them, the Caps got a power-play...

AP Sports WriterSigned for 5 years with Wild, now Niederreiter can relaxBy DAVE CAMPBELLNino Niederreiter has been bold enough with his hobbies to ride on the outside of an airplane . On the ice, he plays a fearless game with a thick frame that's tough to knock off the...

Associated PressMarc-Andre Fleury inks 3-year extension with KnightsBy W.G. RAMIREZLAS VEGAS (AP) It didn't take long for Marc-Andre Fleury to fall in love with his new hometown during his first season with the Vegas Golden Knights.Now, it looks as though he'll spend the rest of his career here.The...

AP Sports WriterTurn it up to 11? Pens, Caps have a lot to live up toBy WILL GRAVESPITTSBURGH (AP) Sidney Crosby doesn't think the Pittsburgh Penguins have some sort of mystical edge over the Washington Capitals. That all those series and all those years and all that dominance...