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DETROIT — Fittingly on a night the Red Wings celebrated past Stanley Cup champions, fans Thursday were able to celebrate an exciting present-day Wings victory.

NEW YORK — Alexandar Georgiev spent his first five seasons in the NHL with the Rangers, the last two serving as backup to Igor Shesterkin, before getting traded to the Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche at last summer’s NHL Draft. On Tuesday night, Georgiev returned to Madison Square Garden with…

DENVER — There were moments throughout this hard-fought contest against the defending Stanley Cup champions when the Seattle Kraken showed signs of “lapses” that coach Dave Hakstol warned had cost his team a couple of nights before.

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Nico Sturm drank out of the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in June. The next month, in what had to be another unforgettable day, Sturm took the Cup to his hometown of Augsburg, Germany, where he shared it with fans, family, and friends.

Vikings General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah sized up the top-heavy roster and salary-cap mess that he inherited from the previous regime and arrived at the conclusion that his initial blueprint should be labeled a "competitive rebuild."

Defeat felt inevitable from puck drop Wednesday — or even before, during an electric Stanley Cup-raising banner — and the Hawks never did enough to change that feeling in an eventual 5-2 loss.

What a classy move from the Avalanche.

Pavel Francouz is a bargain, and he knows it.

LOS ANGELES — After two seasons cut short by COVID-19 and another that began and ended late, the NHL will be back to normal this season. As normal as it gets in the NHL, that is. Remember, this league gave its blessing for the Arizona Coyotes to play in a…

The Colorado Avalanche are looking to become hockey's third back-to-back champion in just eight years, while the Toronto Maple Leafs will try once again to break their five-decade Stanley Cup drought.