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"We unequivocally have no intention of trading Nikita," Lightning GM Julien BriseBois said in a statement last week.

Kucherov is set to be an unrestricted free agent after this season, the last of an eight-year, $76 million contract signed in 2018.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that teams of Russian hockey players must be allowed to compete at World Championships.

The Detroit Red Wings have suspended Dylan Larkin without pay and taken him off the roster after they said he told the team he will no longer play for the franchise.

William Nylander reached 300 career NHL goals with a two-goal performance in Toronto's 7-2 rout of Edmonton.

Nikita Kucherov became the Tampa Bay Lightning's all-time points leader with an assist on Brayden Point's goal against the Utah Mammoth on Saturday.

The 33-year-old Hellebuyck, who backstopped the U.S. to Olympic gold at the Milan-Cortina Games in February, leaves Winnipeg after spending his entire 11-year career there.

Florida Panthers goalie Cooper Black made NHL history in his debut. The 6-foot-9 Black became the tallest goaltender to play in a regular-season game when he headed to the Florida net before the opening faceoff.

Montreal Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki is out 2-4 weeks with what the team called an upper-body injury, ending his ironman run of 546 regular-season games that was the second-longest active streak in the NHL.

Ron Duguay, whose long, wavy hair made him stick out on the ice during an era when helmets were not mandatory in hockey and who played nearly 1,000 games in the NHL from the late 1970s through the '80s, has died of cancer.