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NHL Awards Watch: The way-too-early edition for 2021
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Wednesday, 03 February 2021 05:53
When the NHL Awards are handed out each year, there are accusations of geographic bias.Sometimes it's due to the size of a market. More often it's complaints about how one division or conference is covered by a larger press corps than another -- the storied "East Coast bias" that always seems so severe in theory, but ineffectual in practice. (Fun…
Avalanche star MacKinnon out week-to-week
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Wednesday, 03 February 2021 04:55
Colorado Avalanche star center Nathan MacKinnon has a lower-body injury that will sideline him "week-to-week," coach Jared Bednar said Tuesday.MacKinnon suffered the injury in Sunday's loss to the Wild and missed Colorado's victory Tuesday over Minnesota. Bednar did disclose any specifics about the injury."Obviously he's a very special player and not any single person can fill that void," Avalanche defenseman…
NHL Power Rankings: Biggest disappointment for all 31 teams
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Wednesday, 03 February 2021 04:06
The 2021 NHL season has officially begun to take form, as the February schedule gets rolling. For this week's power rankings, we identified the biggest disappointment so far for every team.How we rank: The ESPN hockey editorial staff submits selections ranking teams 1 to 31 -- taking into account past results and offseason additions -- and those results are tabulated…
Sabres (virus) shut down through at least Mon.
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Tuesday, 02 February 2021 15:46
The Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils played a game on Sunday in Buffalo. By Tuesday, the next week of games for both teams had been postponed, and 16 players were on the NHL's COVID-19 protocol-related absences list.The Sabres were scheduled to fly to New York for a two-game series against the Islanders. That trip was delayed because of weather…
Chara's hockey sticks sent to N.J. man's house
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Tuesday, 02 February 2021 10:49
Ariel Ben-Abraham ripped open a shipping box from China on Monday expecting to find accessories for his clothing company. Instead, he found a bundle of jumbo-sized hockey sticks intended for Washington Capitals star Zdeno Chara that had been randomly delivered to a basketball fan in suburban New Jersey."This has to take the cake as the strangest thing I've gotten by…
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