LAS VEGAS, NV –
It was a moment nearly eight years in the making as Jack Campbell made 41 saves to pick up his first NHL win last night.
Campbell, selected by the Dallas Stars with the No. 11 pick in the 2010 NHL Draft, was making just the second start of his career.
“This one belongs to my parents,” Campbell said about the game puck after the game. “All of their sacrifices through youth hockey and coming to see me, and my sister, too!”
BOSTON, MA –
Rick Nash was surrounded when he stood in front of his new stall in the home dressing room at TD Garden. While he talked to the media about his first home game and first goal as a member of the Boston Bruins, another player stood off to the side, largely ignored.
But the other R. Nash — that, of course, would be Riley Nash — could play nearly as big a role in the Bruins’ run down the stretch as Rick Nash. The under-the-radar forward has spent this season playing up and down the lineup. He has spent most of his time centering the third line and now finds himself up the depth chart.
With top-line center Patrice Bergeron out for at least two weeks because of a fractured right foot, Riley Nash got the first crack at replacing the irreplaceable when he skated between Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak in a 4-3 overtime win against the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday.
COLUMBUS, OH – Ian Cole was traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets by the Ottawa Senators for forward prospect Nick Moutrey and a third-round pick in the 2020 NHL Draft.
Cole was traded to the Senators as part of a three-team deal that brought center Derick Brassard to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday.
“Columbus is a tremendous organization,” Cole told TSN. “They’re a great team that’s had a ton of success. I’m excited to get there and get going.”
LOS ANGELES, CA – The lows are easy to pinpoint for Jack Campbell.
There were those days when he would head home to Cedar Park, Texas, wondering where his career was going. Two years ago, he was playing for the Idaho Steelheads of the ECHL.
“That was pretty interesting,” Campbell said. “Obviously there were some days in Texas where I wasn’t enjoying it.”
It’s not a comment on those places or teams so much as how far Campbell had fallen since he was the 11th pick in the 2010 draft, which took place at Staples Center, where, eight long years later, Campbell returned Saturday as goalie for the Kings.
GANGNEUNG, SOUTH KOREA — Kendall Coyne — the pride of Palos Heights, IL — wore Olympic gold early Thursday morning as the U.S. women’s hockey team beat Canada in an improbable victory — the first for American women in 20 years.
The women’s gold-medal hockey win — 38 years to the day after the famous “Miracle on Ice” at Lake Placid — came in a 3-2 thriller against the U.S. team’s greatest rival and ended Canada’s bid for a fifth straight gold. This win is one for the history books, too.
After the game, Coyne celebrated with her teammates, skating across the ice with fellow forward Hilary Knight while holding an American flag overhead.
NEW YORK, NY – Alain Vigneault said simply Jesper Fast is not the type of player a coach has a difficult time managing.
“For a coach, he’s not a hard guy to deal with,” Vigneault said of his utility winger, who following a plethora of injuries has worn an ‘A’ on his jersey the last four games.
While the absences to the likes of alternate captain Marc Staal and Ryan McDonagh played a role in the addition on Fast’s sweater, it goes far beyond that. Watch any of Fast’s 1,075 shifts this season and you’ll see a common thread: effort.
“Everything I do I try and lead by example, on the ice and off the ice,” Fast told NYRangers.com on Friday. “Just try and be the best player and best team player I can be.”
“I take pride in the hard work and I try and give every night.”
Since he arrived in New York, Vigneault has stressed the luxury of having players in the lineup who can plug in different roles, and arguably no one has done that more during Vigneault’s tenure on Broadway. The winger has been used as a top-six forward as well as in checking role, and has been one the team’s best penalty killers since he became a regular with the Rangers during the 2014-15 campaign when he appeared in 58 games.
Ottawa, ON – The Ottawa Senators welcomed back Kyle Turris with an amazing tribute video for all the great work he performed on and off the ice.
OTTAWA, ONTARIO – Kyle Turris sits down with SportNet’s Christine Simpson to talk about the trade that sent him from the Ottawa Senators to the Nashville Predators, his feelings about leaving Ottawa and responds to his comments after the trade.
OTTAWA, ONTARIO – Whenever Kyle Turris’ name appeared on Jim Perkins’ phone last fall, Perkins felt a rush of anxiety.
For months, Perkins dreaded the call that he received from Turris on the evening of Nov. 5. Turris’ career with the Ottawa Senators ended that night, the result of a three-team trade that landed the multi-talented center with the Predators.
Turris had kept Perkins informed of his situation, promising to call when it reached resolution. They had become as close as family through Turris’ commitment to the Capital City Condors, a hockey team for children and adults with special needs that Perkins and wife Shana founded in 2008.
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