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The Hawks will host seven home games on Saturdays, a day they’ve historically ignored, and 25 of their 41 total games on weekends next season — their most since 2008-09. The season starts Oct. 10 at Pittsburgh. The home opener is Oct. 21 against the champion Golden Knights.

The Predators traded for a player that will be a free agent in a week. Why might it make sense?

The Seattle/Denver rivalry is more than a little one-sided right now

In just their second year of existence, Seattle knocked off the defending Stanley Cup champions.

Oliver Bjorkstrand scored twice, Philipp Grubauer was stellar in stopping 33 shots and the Seattle Kraken eliminated the defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche with a 2-1 win in Game 7

Valeri Nichushkin has been away from the Avalanche since last Saturday.

SEATTLE — A seesaw night of emotions for Seattle’s first major professional hockey game in more than a century had Kraken fans living, dying and reviving themselves with each gut-wrenching, spirit-lifting swing of events.

DENVER — Blowing kisses to the crowd after they’d just sucked the air out of the building epitomized the Thursday-night fright thrown the Seattle Kraken put into the defending Stanley Cup champions and their stunned fans.

DENVER — Minutes into Tuesday night’s historic Kraken playoff debut, feisty defenseman Will Borgen served notice his underdog team wasn’t just happy to be here.