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General manager Julien BriseBois announced the deal. Yanni Gourde will count $2.33 million against the salary cap through the 2030-31 NHL season.

Game 1 is in Edmonton.

"I never took for granted the privilege of playing in the best league in the world," Jesper Fast said in a statement issued by the team.

Florida's Aleksander Barkov thought the team meeting was over. He found it odd that the Panthers hadn't been told they could leave. Turns out, there was a good reason -- two of them, actually.

France replaces Russia in the 2026 Olympic men's and women's hockey tournaments.

When the Panthers take the ice for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final in Edmonton on Wednesday night, it will be the team's 309th game over the past three seasons and one that ties the NHL record for most games in a three-year span.

Thousands attended the event at Washington Lake Park in southern New Jersey, a place John and Matthew went hundreds of times as kids and around the corner from Hollydell Ice Arena, where they started playing hockey.

Palmieri had 24 goals and 24 assists while playing all 82 games for the Islanders last season. He has 87 goals and 85 assists in 305 games with New York since arriving in a trade from New Jersey on April 7, 2021.

Chatfield missed Carolina's last six games with what the defenseman described as a hip injury, while fellow blue-liner Walker was dealing with an aggravation of a shoulder injury.

Jarmo Kekalainen will report to Kevyn Adams in a newly created role in which he'll be involved in all areas of the hockey department,