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Coyotes Sign Schmaltz to Seven-Year Contract Extension

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GLENDALE, AZ – Arizona Coyotes President of Hockey Operations and General Manager John Chayka announced today that the Coyotes have signed center Nick Schmaltz to a seven-year contract extension through the 2025-26 season. As per Club policy, terms of the contract were not disclosed.

“Nick is a highly skilled, creative, young center with extremely high upside,” said Chayka. “Getting Nick signed to a long-term extension is another positive step towards building a sustainable contender here in the Valley. Ownership continues to commit the resources necessary to solidify our core group of players for years to come.”

PHWA Names Rocco Grimaldi as Predators 2019 Masterton Nominee

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NASHVILLE, TN – Nashville Predators forward Rocco Grimaldi has been named the team’s nominee for the 2019 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy by the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association (PHWA). The trophy is awarded annually to the National Hockey League player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey.

Considering those qualifications, there’s no one better to receive the nod than Grimaldi.

After starting the 2018-19 season with the AHL’s Milwaukee Admirals, Grimaldi got the call to Nashville on Oct. 25 – and with the exception of a quick down-and-back around Thanksgiving, the 26-year-old has been a full-time NHLer for the first time.

Jack Campbell Nominated for 2019 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy

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LOS ANGELES, CA – The Los Angeles chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association (PHWA) on Thursday announced that goaltender Jack Campbell is the LA Kings’ nominee for the 2019 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy.

The Masterton Trophy is awarded annually by the PHWA to honor the late Bill Masterton, a player for the Minnesota North Stars who exhibited qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to ice hockey before he died on January 15, 1968, as the result of an on-ice injury.

Pierre Dorion: Prospect Erik Brannstrom is already a “Star”

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OTTAWA, ONT – Ottawa Senators general manager Pierre Dorion said Monday that fans should be optimistic for the team’s future after adding defensive prospect Erik Brannstrom from the Vegas Golden Knights.

Dorion told TSN Radio 1200 Ottawa after Monday’s deadline that the team has “never traded for a player” of Brannstrom’s calibre.

Maple Leafs Acquire Nic Petan from Winnipeg

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TORONTO, ONT – The Toronto Maple Leafs announced today that the hockey club has acquired forward Nic Petan from the Winnipeg Jets in exchange for forward Par Lindholm.

Petan, 23, has appeared in 13 games with the Jets during the 2018-19 season and registered a pair of assists. In 108 career NHL games, all with Winnipeg, he has registered 23 points (5 goals, 18 assists). Petan has also skated in 108 career AHL games with the Manitoba Moose and registered 89 career points (28 goals, 61 assists). Prior to beginning his professional career, the Delta, British Columbia native skated in 252 games with the Portland Winterhawks (WHL) and registered 358 career points (110 goals, 248 assists), capturing the WHL title in 2012-13 while finishing that season as the top scorer in the Canadian Hockey League with 120 points (46 goals, 74 assists). Internationally, Petan has represented Canada at the World Junior Championships in 2014 and 2015, capturing a gold medal at the 2015 tournament in Toronto and Montreal.

Rebuilding Senators acquire one of the NHL’s top prospects in Brannstrom

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OTTAWA, ONT – The Ottawa Senators (@Senators) announced today that they have acquired one of the NHL’s top prospects in Erik Brannstrom, along with centre Oscar Lindberg and a second-round pick in the 2020 draft (previously acquired from the Dallas Stars) from the Vegas Golden Knights in exchange for Mark Stone and minor league forward Tobias Lindberg.

Brannstrom will be assigned to the Senators’ American Hockey League affiliate, the Belleville Senators, while Lindberg is expected to join Ottawa for its game in Washington tomorrow.

“Erik Brannstrom is the top defence prospect in the game; simply a dynamic talent who will be a major component of our future,” said general manager Pierre Dorion. “He was undoubtedly the best prospect available at the trade deadline and in addition to his talent, he is a natural born leader. We could not be more excited to look at the future of having Erik join the other young prospects in the Senators organization. He’ll be a cornerstone player of our rebuild.”

Dylan Larkin remains Detroit Red Wings’ brightest star in dark season

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DETROIT, MI – Dylan Larkin didn’t want to talk about himself, which is part of what makes him the player he is, the top rebuilding block for the Detroit Red Wings.

He matched his career high in goals during Saturday’s 3-1 loss to the Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Center, scoring No. 23 of the season on a wraparound. It was his third point the last two games, after he sat out a contest with a strained oblique.

“I think first of all with Dylan, it is his compete level every night,” fellow center Frans Nielsen said. “He rarely gets outworked out there, and that’s how you stay consistent in this league. If you compete like him, you are going to be OK even on bad days. He skates with the best in this league and has a good shot. He’s coming into a complete player.

“Nine out of 10 games, he’s our best player. You don’t see that a lot, but again, when you compete like him, even on bad days, you’re going to have good things happen out there.”

Kendall Coyne Schofield wows with her speed in NHL All Star Skills Competition

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SAN JOSE, CA – Kendall Coyne Schofield owns one Olympic and five World Championship gold medals, but Friday night was one for posterity.

“This is definitely a top three moment in my career,” she said.

It was so much more than that. Friday night was a watershed moment for women athletes everywhere, proof that as much as the NHL says it, hockey really is for everyone.

Coyne Schofield became the first woman to participate in the NHL’s Skills Competition at All-Star Weekend in San Jose.

Previously, the NHL used the top Canadian and American women stars only to demonstrate the Skills Competition drills.

But in a Fastest Skater competition in which the All-Star veterans have bowed out in recent years because they didn’t want to be embarrassed by Connor McDavid, Coyne Schofield readily laced up her skates in place of injured Colorado Avalanche starNathan MacKinnon.

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