QUEBEC — Patrick Roy has turned down an offer to become the head coach of the Colorado Avalanche.
The Hall of Fame goaltender said he phoned Avalanche president Pierre Lacroix late Tuesday night to tell him he wasn’t accepting the team’s offer due to family reasons.
“All I can say is that the Avalanche’s offer was more than interesting,” Roy told a news conference Wednesday inside Quebec City’s Colisee.
Roy, the Continue reading ‘Roy turns down offer to coach Avs’
TORONTO — The Montreal Canadiens sure know how to atone for a painful loss.
Jaroslav Halak made 34 saves and Alex Kovalev had a goal and three assists Saturday as the Canadiens hammered the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-2.
It was just two weeks ago that Toronto embarrassed the Habs by beating them 5-2 at the Bell Centre. Montreal has gone 5-0-1 since and is now five points clear of ninth-place Florida with four games to play in the Continue reading ‘Habs put the hammer down in T.O.’
The Toronto Maple Leafs announced Thursday that defenceman Jonas Frogren has been recalled from the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League (AHL). Also, goaltender Justin Pogge has been assigned to the Toronto Marlies.
Pogge received his third career NHL start Wednesday night, losing to the Buffalo Sabres 5-0. The Leafs were out shot 32-16, and head coach Ron Wilson said Pogge played better than the result indicated.
BOSTON — Tuukka Rask made the most of his first start in nearly 14 months.
The 21-year-old Finn stopped 35 shots for his first NHL shutout in his fourth start for the Bruins and Marc Savard scored to give Boston a 1-0 victory over the New York Rangers on Saturday.
“You don’t want to fail because if you fail you don’t know when you’re going to get another chance,” Rask said after making 15 saves in the third period to become Continue reading ‘Bruin backup shuts down Rangers’
NEW YORK — The number on Henrik Lundqvist’s stat line that jumped out to the New York Rangers goalie wasn’t the 19 in the win column but the zero under shutouts.
Never did the numbers 20 and 1 go as well together as they did Monday night.
Lundqvist bounced back from a slump and a bout with a stomach bug, sending the Rangers to a 4-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins that stopped a slide and lifted New York back Continue reading ‘Lundqvist, Rangers shut down Pens’
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VANCOUVER — The jersey was different and his teammates were new, but what mattered most for Mats Sundin Tuesday was the old feeling he got when he stepped on the ice again.
The former Toronto Maple Leaf captain, who practised for the first time with the Vancouver Canucks since signing as a NHL free agent prior to Christmas, said his passion for the game has returned.
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NEWARK, N.J. — Tim Thomas and the Boston Bruins got the best of the New Jersey Devils in a game that felt more like a playoff contest than a regular-season matchup.
And it was a game that lived up to its billing, a showdown between the two hottest teams in the Eastern Conference.
Thomas made 25 saves and Milan Lucic broke a scoreless tie early in the third period Continue reading ‘Bruins down Devils, win 6th straight’
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NEW YORK — Through a brutal first period, nothing suggested this would be the night Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals would break out on Broadway.
The New York Rangers had a big lead, had already chased one goalie and then watched another ailing one head to the bench. Ovechkin had never enjoyed success at Madison Square Garden, and Washington hadn’t won there in nearly Continue reading ‘Ovechkin rallies Caps from 4-0 down’
The Tampa Bay Lightning ownership group is contemplating filing a charge with the league claiming Barry Melrose breached his contract when he spoke out Tuesday against his former team.
If the Lightning go ahead and the league supports the claim, they can than refuse to pay Melrose the remaining $2.25M owed on his 3-year deal.
In a radio interview on the FAN590, Melrose went on a tirade against his former employers, Continue reading ‘Bolts look to strike down Melrose’
NEW YORK — Ales Hemsky scored the only goal in the shootout and undefeated rookie goalie Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers made 40 saves for the Edmonton Oilers, who ended their longest road trip of the season with a 3-2 victory over the New York Rangers on Monday night.
Hemsky’s shot in the second round was blocked by Henrik Lundqvist’s arm, but not enough to keep it out of the net. The Oilers won for the second straight night and finished Continue reading ‘Oilers rookie tender shuts down Rangers’
