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Fatigue won't be an issue when the Boston Bruins play the Montreal Canadiens at Bell Centre on Saturday. The Bruins (23-10-7) and the Canadiens (18-20-4) are playing their first games after their league-mandated five-day break. This is the first meeting since Claude Julien was fired as Bruins coach last February and took over the Canadiens after the Habs fired Michel Therrien on Feb. 14. Continue to Article

January 13, 2018 12:38:am EST

The Tampa Bay Lightning lost Victor Hedman to a lower body injury on Thursday night and it did not look great when he left the ice. The injury will force Hedman to miss the All-Star game in Tampa Bay later this month. It is possible he could be replaced by one of his teammates, Mikhail Sergachev, and keep four Lightning players on the roster. Continue to Article

January 12, 2018 4:20:pm EST

Words like "brilliant" and "phenom" have been tossed around with great regularity through the first half-season of 20-year-old Charlie McAvoy's NHL career and with good reason, given a consistent performance that belies his rookie status. McAvoy leads all NHL rookies by a wide margin with 22:54 of ice time per game and has been strong at both ends of the ice with five goals and 21 points along with a plus-14 rating in 40 games. Rookies McAvoy, Danton Heinen and Jake DeBrusk have been a big part of Boston's first-half success story, and they'll need to continue that level of contribution if Boston is going to finish strong in a grueling second half of the season. Continue to Article

January 12, 2018 12:41:pm EST

Almost every team has hit the 41-game mark of the season, which means it’s time to look back at the first half and hand out some hardware. There’s plenty of change since we did our quarter-point awards post and these will most certainly change by the Continue to Article

January 11, 2018 10:07:am EST