DETROIT — The Detroit Red Wings took care of a major piece of business before training camp on Thursday.

The team announced on Monday that they've signed restricted free-agent forward Lucas Raymond to an 8-year contract worth an average annual value of $8,075,000.

Raymond's signing leaves defenseman Moritz Seider as the lone free agent ...Read more

MIAMI — The moment still hasn’t fully hit Evan Rodrigues, even after a summer full of celebration draws to a close and a new season is about to begin.

Yes, he and the Florida Panthers really won the Stanley Cup.

Sometimes, saying it still doesn’t feel real.

“It might come one day,” Rodrigues said, “hopefully soon.”

There have ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — It did not take long for Macklin Celebrini to make an impact in his first competitive game in a San Jose Sharks uniform on Friday.

Playing for the first time in nearly four months, the 18-year-old Celebrini scored a third-period power-play goal and finished with five shots in the Sharks’ 3-2 win over the Utah Hockey Club ...Read more

Katie Gaudreau was supposed to be a newlywed by now, but instead she’s mourning the loss of her brothers, Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, who were fatally struck by a suspected drunk driver less than 24 hours before her wedding was set to take place.

Johnny and Matthew — 31 and 29 years old, respectively — were riding bikes along county ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Carolina Hurricanes are making a major investment in the future of forward Seth Jarvis.

The team announced Saturday that it has re-signed Jarvis, considered one of the league’s emerging young stars, to an eight-year contract for $63.2 million, of which $29.24 million comes in signing bonuses. Jarvis will have a $7.5 ...Read more

The wife of Johnny Gaudreau paid tribute to her late hockey player husband, vowing to make him proud in her first Instagram post since he was killed by a suspected drunk driver in New Jersey.

“Thank you for the best years of my life,” Meredith Gaudreau wrote on Instagram alongside a carousel of photos of her family through the years.

“...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — In the parking lot outside Hollydell Ice Arena in Sewell, N.J., a long rectangle of black so quiet Friday morning that it seemed a solemn, sacred place, eight young hockey players mingled in a loose circle, their voices nothing more than whispers and mumbles.

They were 18, 19, maybe 20 years old, all players on the Philadelphia...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Columbus Blue Jackets superstar Johnny Gaudreau and his brother, Matthew, were struck and killed by a vehicle while riding their bicycles in Oldmans Township, N.J., on Thursday evening. Johnny was 31 years old, and Matthew was 29. They were slated to celebrate their sister’s wedding on Friday.

The brothers, who grew up in ...Read more

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — This past year was a little bit up and down for Samu Tuomaala.

That's a direct quote from the Finland-born Philadelphia Flyers prospect.

It started out promising and included a trip to California for the American Hockey League's All-Star game, but the Lehigh Valley winger only registered eight points (three goals, five ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Examined individually, there's nothing that jumps off the page when it comes to the Penguins' moves this offseason to revamp their bottom-six or depth-forward spots.

At least not within the context of an Erik Karlsson trade or contract extensions for Tristan Jarry (last year) and Sidney Crosby (TBD?).

But when you step back and ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The San Jose Sharks acquired what they hope will be their goalie of the future on Friday, trading for top netminding prospect Yaroslav Askarov as part of a massive deal with the Nashville Predators before signing him to a two-year, $4 million contract extension.

In a potential landmark trade, the Sharks sent forward ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Kyle Dubas has teased all offseason that the Penguins could swing a deal for a young player who could be ready to make an impact in the NHL this season.

He never mentioned that he might trade his current top prospect to go get him.

The Penguins on Thursday acquired Rutger McGroarty, a 20-year-old forward who starred at the ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Penguins president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas had one clear-cut objective this offseason: Make the team younger.

After the Penguins disappointed and missed the Stanley Cup Playoffs for a second consecutive campaign — squandering another spectacular season from Sidney Crosby — many wondered if the rebuild would truly get ...Read more

SEATTLE — The Kraken’s first draft pick is set to stick around for a good, long while.

Matty Beniers, 21, agreed to a seven-year, $50M contract with an average annual value of $7.14M. The deal was announced Tuesday morning, less than a month before the Kraken open training camp.

It was speculated that Beniers’ camp would seek a “bridge...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Golden Knights announced Friday they will visit Mexico in September as part of their first international trip.

The team will hold hockey clinics and fan activities Sept. 6-10 in Mexico City, Metepec and the Monterrey area.

“In addition to the 225,000 people of Mexican heritage that already live in Las Vegas, our city also ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — History should record that the Carolina Hurricanes were also extremely high on Zach Parise going into that epochal 2003 draft, one of the two or three best in the entire history of the NHL. If they didn’t have the second pick — after a season in which they finished dead last, they lost the lottery, too — they might have ...Read more