ST. LOUIS BLUES Last season: 43-33-6, missed playoffs. COACH: Drew Bannister (30-19-5 as midseason replacement for Craig Berube). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 8 at Seattle. DEPARTURES: C Kevin Hayes, D Marco Scandella, LW Jakub Vrana, D Torey Krug...
Spending the summer celebrating a Stanley Cup championship wasn’t enough to distract Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov from paying attention to what Florida’s Atlantic Division rivals were up to this offseason. Three teams — Buffalo ( Lindy Ruff ), Ottawa ( Travis Green ) and...
So many changes have happened behind the bench around the NHL in recent years that only four of the league's 32 teams have the same coach they did coming out of the pandemic. “I don’t know what the average lifespan of a coach in a specific organization is, but I know it’s got...