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7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The 2023 NHL All-Star Weekend is upon us. Friday night will be the All-Star skills competition, the broadcast of which will begin at 7 ET on ESPN and ESPN+. Saturday will be the All-Star Game itself at FLA Live Arena in Sunrise, Florida, with coverage beginning at 3 p.m. ET

8:59 PM ET Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Kim Davis sees a change in hockey from when she was a girl growing up in Chicago. Back then, she said, the sport didn’t seem like a place for Black girls like her. “There were no intentional messages that said the sport was for me, or

5:34 PM ET Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — Bo Horvat hasn’t had long to process the blockbuster trade that sent him from Vancouver to the New York Islanders this week. And the new reality remains hard to grasp. “It still honestly hasn’t really sunk in yet,” Horvat told reporters on Thursday during media availability before the

7:00 AM ET The NHL All-Star Game is an oasis. It’s a moment for players to hang with peers, friends and family. To sink a golf putt with a hockey stick or topple into a dunk tank, it’s a time to let their personalities shine through, or at least as much personality as their decades

8:42 PM ET Vegas Golden Knights captain Mark Stone will be out indefinitely after having back surgery, the team said Wednesday. The left winger is expected to make a full recovery. Stone was injured Jan. 12, after playing less than four minutes of the Golden Knights’ 4-2 win over the visiting Florida Panthers. He began

5:09 PM ET ESPN News Services DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — New Jersey Devils associate coach and former Florida Panthers head coach Andrew Brunette was arrested Wednesday in South Florida and charged with driving under the influence. Brunette was pulled over in the Deerfield Beach area, north of Fort Lauderdale, according to Broward County jail records.

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff Gary Bettman took office as the NHL’s first-ever commissioner on Feb. 1, 1993. It’s been an eventful three decades since. League owners tapped Bettman — a New York-born, Ivy League-educated lawyer who previously served as the NBA’s general counsel and senior vice president — to succeed outgoing president Gil Stein

2:00 PM ET New York Islanders There are basically two universes we need to consider when it comes to the New York Islanders acquisition of Bo Horvat from the Vancouver Canucks on Monday: The universe where Mathew Barzal shifts to the wing and the universe where he doesn’t. The Islanders now have more centers than

11:44 AM ET CAA is now representing women’s hockey players, hoping to minimize the gender gap and help grow the sport, the agency told ESPN on Tuesday. The Creative Artists Agency has signed eight women’s hockey players, including two-time Canadian Olympic medalist Blayre Turnbull and Boston College captain Hannah Bilka, to its initial roster, promising

6:21 PM ET Bo Horvat leaving Vancouver was always thought to be a possibility. It became a reality on Monday, with the Canucks trading their captain to the New York Islanders. Horvat heads to Long Island in exchange for forward Anthony Beauvillier, prospect forward Aatu Raty and a conditional first-round pick in this year’s draft,

8:26 PM ET The rumor and speculation is now over regarding Vancouver Canucks center Bo Horvat. The New York Islanders have traded forwards Anthony Beauvillier and Aatu Raty, along with a conditional first-round pick in the 2023 draft (top-12 protected), in exchange for Vancouver’s now-former captain. The Canucks are retaining 25% of Horvat’s salary. In

11:00 AM ET ESPN News Services Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Hull, a 12-time All-Star and two-time Hart Trophy winner, has died, the Chicago Blackhawks announced Monday. He was 84. “We send our deepest sympathies to the Hull family,” the team said in a statement. “The Hull family has requested privacy during this difficult time.

10:39 PM ET ESPN News Services TORONTO — Veteran goaltender Matt Murray, in the midst of a comeback season with the Maple Leafs, will be out through the NHL All-Star break and Toronto’s subsequent bye week, coach Sheldon Keefe said on Sunday. Murray is nursing an ankle injury, but Keefe told reporters that it isn’t

10:41 PM ET Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — Sebastian Aho scored a goal for the fourth straight game, and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Boston Bruins 4-1 on Sunday in a matchup of the teams with the two best records in the NHL. Paul Stastny scored on a second-period power play, Seth Jarvis posted a

Jan 26, 2023 ESPN staff Heading into Thursday’s game against the Tampa Bay Lightning (7 p.m. ET, NHL Power Play on ESPN+), the Boston Bruins are on pace for 66 wins and 140 points, both of which would set NHL records (currently 62 and 132, respectively). For a team that lost in the first round

9:53 PM ET ESPN News Services SUNRISE, Fla. — Sam Reinhart scored 17 seconds into overtime to cap a late scoring flurry and give the Florida Panthers a 4-3 victory over the NHL-leading Boston Bruins on Saturday night. The result, coupled with a 3-2 defeat to Tampa Bay on Thursday, gave Boston its first two-game

2:29 AM ET Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canucks right winger Ilya Mikheyev is set to have season-ending surgery on his left knee. Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin said Friday night that the 28-year-old Russian forward tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in the team’s first preseason game Sept. 25. Mikheyev

6:45 PM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — Montreal Canadiens winger Cole Caufield said Friday he wouldn’t be having season-ending surgery on his right shoulder if the team were in playoff contention. But with the Canadiens near the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings, the 22-year-old Caufield said he decided to have the surgery to protect