Month: April 2009

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota Wild all-star goalie Niklas Backstrom will have surgery on his left hip.The operation will be performed Friday in Vail, Colo

BROSSARD, Que – Bob Gainey has appealed to Montreal Canadiens fans to stop booing the U.S. national anthem.The Canadiens coach and general manager said fans who booed during “The Star Spangled Banner” ahead of Game 3 of their playoff series against the Boston Bruins should find other ways to voice their support

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Doug Risebrough says he was “shocked” by the Minnesota Wild’s decision to fire him and end his nearly 10-year tenure as the franchise’s first general manager

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota Wild left wing Derek Boogaard has undergone surgery on his right shoulder.The team said Tuesday the six-foot-eight enforcer is on the road to recovery and will begin rehabilitation Wednesday

The 2009 World Under-18 Championship will surely be a memorable one for U.S. center Drew Shore. The 6-foot-2, 200-pound Denver Pioneers commit got better as the tourney went on, culminating in a three-assist finale as his team blanked the Russians for gold

PRAGUE – Dominik Hasek is coming out of retirement to play for his former club in the top Czech league.The 44-year-old goaltender will play next season for HC Moeller Pardubice in the town where he was born and started his career

Results Monday:AHL PlayoffsDivision Semifinals(Best-of-7)North DivisionHamilton 5 Grand Rapids 4(Grand Rapids leads series 2-1)Atlantic DivisionWorcester 3 Hartford 2 (2OT)(Hartford leads series 2-1)West DivisionPeoria 4 Houston 3 (Series tied 2-2)ECHL PlayoffsDivision Semifinals(Best-of-7)Cincinnati 2 Wheeling 1 (2OT)(Cincinnati wins series 4-3)IHL PlayoffsNo Games Scheduled

Scoring summaries from Monday’s NHL playoff games:Bruins 4 at Canadiens 2First Period1. Montreal, Higgins 2 (Weber) 11:522. Boston, Kessel 3 (Wideman) 18:35Penalty – Kostitsyn Mtl (slashing) 3:41

CALGARY – David Moss scored a pair of goals to pace the Calgary Flames to a 4-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday.The Flames trail the ‘Hawks 2-1 in their best-of-seven Western Conference quarter-final series with Game 4 on Wednesday at the Saddledome (10 p

MONTREAL – The Montreal Canadiens feel they have to move mountains just to get a goal, while the Boston Bruins are having goals fall in their laps

Movements in the world of hockey Monday:National Hockey LeagueDALLAS STARS-Signed D Philip Larsen.MINNESOTA WILD-Re-signed D John Scott.ECHLREADING ROYALS-Acquired the rights to F Ryan Cruthers and D Kyle Peto from Mississippi to complete an earlier trade

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Ryan Russell and Ryan White each had a goal and an assist for Hamilton as the Bulldogs won 5-4 on Monday to get back in their series with Grand Rapids

MONTREAL – Michael Ryder scored late in the second period to break a 2-2 tie in lifting the Boston Bruins to a 4-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens to take a stranglehold on their NHL Eastern Conference playoff series Monday night

NEW YORK – While Alex Ovechkin tried to figure out Henrik Lundqvist, the Washington Capitals found a way to beat the New York Rangers.Ovechkin went a third game without a goal, but earned two assists for the second-seeded Capitals, who methodically posted a 4-0 victory over the No

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Throughout the San Jose Sharks’ outstanding regular season, rookie coach Todd McLellan always insisted the results didn’t matter as much as the process

MONTREAL – Forward Alex Tanguay and defenceman Mathieu Schneider, both said to be suffering from “upper body” injuries, were surprise scratches for the Montreal Canadiens for Game 3 of their playoff series against the Boston Bruins

RALEIGH, N.C. – Everything seemed to line up against the New Jersey Devils to make a run at the Stanley Cup.They drew one of the NHL’s hottest teams down the stretch for their first-round series, a Carolina club that all but owned them during the regular season

PHILADELPHIA – Old-time hockey got the Philadelphia Flyers back in their playoff series against Pittsburgh. It’ll take more than a few fights and hard hits to beat the Penguins

ST. LOUIS – One win away from a first-round playoff sweep, the Vancouver Canucks are anything but cocky. A loss from making their first post-season appearance in five years a colossal dud, the St

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The city that gave the world humorist James Thurber, rapper Bow Wow and golfer Jack Nicklaus has another celebrity about to step into the national spotlight