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The Dallas Stars as we speak appointed Texas Stars head coach Derek Laxdal as an assistant coach for the NHL membership. Moreover, Texas assistant coach Neil Graham will assume the place of head coach for the Texas Stars, with Travis Morin serving because the AHL workforce’s new assistant coach.Laxdal, 53, had served as Texas’s head coach since July three, 2014. In five-plus seasons, he led the Stars to a 198-152-55 document, together with a visit to the 2018 Calder Cup Finals. He ha...

In in the present day’s Information & Notes, Brock Nelson has signed a long-term contract extension, the Ottawa Senators have employed D.J. Smith as their new head coach and Mike Modano has been employed by the Minnesota Wild. Nelson Indicators Extension The New York Islanders have signed Nelson to a six-year contract extension price $36 million. This deal got here after Nelson had himself a career-season with the Islanders and the workforce shocked many by takin...

BOSTON — Greg McKegg has skilled his share of disappointment in hockey.So the Carolina Hurricanes ahead is savoring his success within the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs heading into Recreation 2 of the Jap Convention Remaining in opposition to the Boston Bruins on Sunday (three p.m. ET; NBC, CBC, SN, TVAS).The Bruins lead the best-of-7 sequence 1-Zero. [RELATED: Complete Bruins vs. Hurricanes series coverage] McKegg, who has performed for 5 groups in six NHL seasons, has scored in conse...

Kalle Kossila scored twice within the first interval and San Diego pulled away for a 6-2 victory over Bakersfield on Monday night time, eliminating the Pacific Division champions from the Calder Cup Playoffs.San Diego wins the collection, 4 video games to 2, and can subsequent face Chicago for Western Convention championship starting Friday night time in Rosemont, Unwell.Will probably be the Gulls’ first-ever journey to the convention finals, and the primary look by an Anaheim Geese af...

Photograph: Len Redkoles/NHLI through Getty ImagesThe New York Rangers introduced right this moment that the crew has named Kris Knoblauch head coach of the AHL’s Hartford Wolf Pack.Knoblauch is the seventh head coach in Wolf Pack historical past.Knoblauch, 40, joins the Rangers group with 13 seasons of teaching expertise, together with elements of seven seasons as a head coach. Most not too long ago, he served as an assistant coach with the Philadelphia Flyers from 2017-19.Previous t...