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Associated PressNyquist has 2 goals, Red Wings rally past Golden Knights 6-3By W.G. RAMIREZLAS VEGAS (AP) Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill put a lot of weight in this four-game road trip. A season after missing the playoffs for the first time in 25 years, Detroit was hoping a...

Langlois, 3-time Cup winner with Canadiens, dies at 85MONTREAL (AP) Albert Langlois, a three-time Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens, has died. He was 85.The team announced the death Sunday.Langlois played four seasons with the Canadiens from 1957 to 1961, winning the Stanley Cup with the team...

Kraken expect training center to open in summer of '21SEATTLE (AP) The expansion Seattle Kraken expect to have the main portion of their training facility open in plenty of time for the team's first NHL season.The primary NHL rink, locker rooms, training areas and front office space are...

NHL CalendarApril 4 - Regular season ends.April 8 - Stanley Cup playoffs begin.May 8-24 - IIHF World Championship, Zurich/Lausanne, Switzerland.June 1-6 - NHL scouting combine, Buffalo, N.Y.June 13 - Last possible day of Stanley Cup Final.June 17 - NHL awards, Las Vegas.June 26-27 - NHL draft, Montreal.July 1 -...

Maple Leafs acquire Plekanec in deal with CanadiensTORONTO (AP) The Maple Leafs acquired forwards Tomas Plekanec and Kyle Baun from the Montreal Canadiens for defenseman Rinat Valiev, forward Kerby Rychel and a 2018 second-round draft pick Sunday.Plekanec, 35, had six goals and 18 assists in 60 games with...

AP Hockey WriterBruins prospect Linus Arnesson to return to play in SwedenBy JOHN WAWROWBUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Boston Bruins general manager Don Sweeney says prospect defenseman Linus Arnesson is returning to play in his native Sweden to rediscover his game after an injury-plagued season in the minors.Sweeney says the...

Underperforming Maple Leafs fire coach Mike BabcockTORONTO (AP) The Toronto Maple Leafs have fired head coach Mike Babcock and replaced him with Sheldon Keefe.Babcock had a record of 9-10-4 in 2019-20 for the struggling Leafs, who are 0-5-1 in their last six games, including five straight losses in...

AP Hockey WriterRussia becomes a reliable pipeline for ready-made NHL talentBy STEPHEN WHYNODown the street from where Detroit's Russian Five took the NHL by storm in the 1990s, defenseman Nikita Zaitsev sat down for dinner with his agent and explained that his pain of being passed over in the...

BROSSARD, Quebec (AP) - The Montreal Canadiens will be without team scoring leader Max Pacioretty to start the playoffs.Coach Michel Therrien said Pacioretty will sit out the opening game of their first-round playoff series against the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday night at the Bell Centre.He said it is possible...

AP Hockey WritersNHL pushes back timeline on potential resumption of seasonBy STEPHEN WHYNO and JOHN WAWROWThe NHL is pushing back the possibility of resuming its season for several weeks, if not a month or more.The league and NHL Players' Association told players Monday they can go home - even...

AP Sports WriterYoung scorers lead the way as NHL All-Star weekend arrivesBy JOSH DUBOWSAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) It is only fitting that Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews and Nathan MacKinnon are serving as captains for this weekend's NHL All-Star game.The three high-scoring forwards are all 23 or younger. They...

AP Hockey WriterPenguins erase 2-goal deficit, beat Capitals 3-2 in Game 1By STEPHEN WHYNOWASHINGTON (AP) Patric Hornqvist, Sidney Crosby and Jake Guentzel scored in a 4:49 span to help the Pittsburgh Penguins rally to beat the Washington Capitals 3-2 on Thursday night in Game 1 of the second-round...