2 in the league since Sacco took over from fired coach Jim Montgomery – surrendered three goals. Goals allowed have become an issue for the Bruins this season, with them sitting at No. 23 at 3.17 per game compared to No. 5 a year ago at 2.70. But that’s nothing compared to their ...
While the Boston Bruins received a bump under new coach Joe Sacco, it appears they haven't totally eliminated their penchant for lopsided losses. The Bruins are 15-12-3 overall -- and 7-3-0 since Sacco took over for the fired Jim Montgomery on Nov. 19 -- yet they have a minus-19 ...
Matt Boldy, Marco Rossi and Joel Eriksson Ek scored for Minnesota, which improved to 5-2-0 since John Hynes replaced the fired Dean Evason as coach on Nov. 27. Gustavsson got his fifth career shutout. “When you’ve lost seven in a row and had a bad start to the year, it’s goi...
The teams traded tallies in the second period before Schwartz gave Seattle a 4-2 lead with his second of the contest just a minute into the third. The Kraken second-line forward was all alone in the right circle and fired a wrist shot over goalie Felix Sandstrom’s right shoulder. Sandstr...
Guentzel added a second goal midway through the third period on another quality setup by Rodrigues. Guentzel now has seven goals in the last four games (including a hat trick against Vancouver Saturday before that franchise fired both its head coach and general manager). He has the NHL's long...
Coach Rick Tocchet believes, with the team out of playoff contention, some players may be viewing the final games of the season as meaningless. “Some guys are maybe getting tired. ... A lot of people in and out of the lineup. Maybe that’s it, I don’t know,” he said. “But...
“That’s a frustrating loss,” Jets coach Rick Bowness said. “It certainly wasn’t our best.” Seattle led 1-0 after the first period. It was 2-2 following the second and 3-3 inside the first two minutes of the third. Niederreiter scored at 1:17 of the third, but Tatar replied...
The expansion Seattle Kraken have hired Dave Hakstol as the franchise's first coach. Hakstol takes over the team that will play its first NHL season beginning in the fall.
Not so fast apparently: By the 12-minute mark, the home squad was maintaining offensive zone possession long enough to set up a tip-in goal for Blake Wheeler, the former Winnipeg captain (replaced by assistant coach Dave Lowry’s son, Adam) who scored his sixth goal in his first year wi...
“You know, we’ve been playing pretty well here lately. I liked the way our team played again tonight,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar said. “It was an evenly matched game obviously. Fitting that it goes to a shootout.” Ryan Donatoscored for the Kraken, andPhilipp Grubaueralso had 26 ...