DENVER — Peter Forsberg needs pants.

He is checking golf clubs for the flight from Sweden, not hockey equipment. So a pair of breezers and some shoulder pads were his simple requests to play in the Colorado Faceoff — a benefit game pitting former Avalanche and Denver greats against each other Sunday at 5 p.m. at Magness Arena.

“I told ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — It may not feel like it, considering the recent sweltering weather outside, but hockey season is just around the corner.

In about a month’s time, the Flyers will reconvene in Voorhees, N.J., for training camp — without the anxiety of facing John Tortorella’s rope test this year — and embark on the next step in their ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Eight years ago, the only smoke surrounding the Penguins came from victory cigars and Stanley Cup parades. Little different these days.

While on-ice news has been eerily quiet, conversation has shifted from their rebuilding timeline to this:

The Penguins are for sale, right?

It's also impossible to ignore potential ...Read more

DENVER — More than 30,000 fans of top-selling Colorado author Rebecca Yarros rushed this week to buy VIP tickets to a themed Colorado Avalanche night in her honor. But so many were shut out that Yarros posted a public apology and vowed to bring it back next year.

“I’m so sorry that yesterday’s sale for Fourth Wing Night with the ...Read more

CHICAGO — A former public relations manager for the Chicago Blackhawks filed a discrimination lawsuit against the team this week, alleging he was wrongfully fired after sharing his experiences as a gay man in an article with Outsports, a site covering LGBTQ+ sports news.

Anthony Filomena, the former employee, filed the suit Thursday in ...Read more

MIAMI — Star winger Matthew Tkachuk still hasn’t decided if he’s going to have surgery to remedy a pair of injuries with the Florida Panthers just under two months away from beginning the 2025-26 NHL season and their quest for a third consecutive Stanley Cup.

Tkachuk told ESPN on Friday that he’s still weighing his options. However, if ...Read more

CHICAGO — Patrick Kane is back — for a day, anyway. And now his name is part of Chicago lore forever.

Aug. 8 was always a day of celebration of the career of Kane for Blackhawks fans — after all, he donned the No. 88 sweater for 16 seasons with the franchise. The official recognition came Friday from Ald. Brian Hopkins, 2nd, who ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Ty Murchison rubbed out Jack Nesbitt along the wall during a drill on the first day of Flyers development camp earlier this month.

The 2021 fifth-rounder, who is 6-foot-2 and 205 pounds, made sure he did it with noticeable authority. And not just because he was taking out Nesbitt, the 6-5, 185-pound center who was drafted 12th ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — It's the perfect — and percolating — Pittsburgh storyline, the possibility of Ron Burkle and Mario Lemieux repurchasing the Penguins.

News broke on June 11 that the group of Burkle, Lemieux and David Morehouse was considering trying to buy back the Penguins from the Fenway Sports Group, and I've since confirmed that interest ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — After a tortuous and sensational trial, Carter Hart and the four other members of Canada’s 2018 World Junior hockey team accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a hotel room after a Hockey Canada celebration in London, Ontario, were found not guilty Thursday.

Not innocent. Just not guilty. And resoundingly so.

Justice ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche are moving on from Oskar Olausson.

The Avs sent the 2021 first-round pick to San Jose in a trade that brought back two-way forward Danil Gushchin, the team announced on Friday afternoon.

Olausson never found his footing at the NHL level, appearing in just four games total with the Avs after being selected with...Read more

Carter Hart will not face prison time after Justice Maria Carroccia found the former Flyers goaltender not guilty on the count of sexual assault.

According to media outlets present at the Ontario Superior Court house in London, Ontario, Carroccia started announcing her decision Thursday by saying: “Having found that I cannot rely upon the ...Read more

ATLANTA — Before we get into the story of the first day that the Stanley Cup ever spent in Atlanta as the guest of an NHL championship team member, it’s important to know a little bit about the cup itself.

Quite arguably, it is the greatest and most tradition-bound trophy in North American sports. First awarded in 1893, Lord Stanley’s Cup...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Last week, the National Hockey League and the NHL Players’ Association ratified a new four-year collective bargaining agreement that will commence with the 2026-27 season and run through 2030.

The deal, which was agreed to a full year before the current CBA expires next July, notably came together rather smoothly and with ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Three bits of news in seven days, two likely involving the NHL club, and one gigantic question surrounding the Penguins: Why not orient everything they do in 2025-26 toward the idea of hopefully obtaining teenage phenom Gavin McKenna?

Answer: It appears that's exactly what they're doing, even if you won't hear the franchise talk ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Nikolaj Ehlers put the whole players-don’t-want-to-play-here narrative perpetuated by the summary departures of Jake Guentzel and Mikko Rantanen quickly to rest by taking less money to sign with the Carolina Hurricanes.

That was actually the least of what the arrival of the skilled Danish winger did for the Hurricanes last ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Penn State knows a thing or two about landing a top recruit. From Derrick Williams to Christian Hackenberg to Miles Sanders to Micah Parsons, the Nittany Lions have landed their fair share of blue-chippers through the years.

Gavin McKenna might be bigger than them all.

But you won’t find McKenna’s name scrolling through ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — We all had our shopping lists ready as July 1 approached. NHL free agency was near, and Wild President of Hockey Operations Bill Guerin was finally in position to show how he can shape a roster with no salary limitations.

It has been difficult to assess Guerin’s tenure with the Wild since July 2021, when he bought out the ...Read more