NHL Suspends Season Due To Coronavirus Outbreak
There will be no hockey for the foreseeable future after the NHL decided Thursday to suspend the 2019-20 season due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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There will be no hockey for the foreseeable future after the NHL decided Thursday to suspend the 2019-20 season due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Evgeni Malkin scored two goals and set up another to lead the slumping Pittsburgh Penguins to a 5-2 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night.
The NBA, NHL, Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer are closing access to locker rooms and clubhouses to all nonessential personnel, including media, in response to the coronavirus crisis.
This was the final meeting of the season between the Devils and the Rangers, with each team earning two wins.
Cory Schneider made 31 saves in helping New Jersey end a 12-game skid against the defending Stanley Cup champions, dating to January 2014.
The Devils have not played like the 14th-place team in the Eastern Conference of late. They had picked up at least a point on each of the previous four games of their road trip.
Pavel Zacha scored two power-play goals, Cory Schneider made 34 saves for his first shutout in more than a year, and the New Jersey Devils beat the Anaheim Ducks 3-0 on Sunday night.
Mackenzie Blackwood had his six-game winning streak broken despite making 36 saves, and the Devils earned a point for the fifth straight game.
Travis Zajac and Nikita Gusev each had a goal for the Devils, who were seeking their season-high fourth straight win but blew a 2-0 lead in the second period. Cory
Cory Schneider finally won a game, but afterward, much of the discussion was about a couple third-period incidents involving New Jersey rookie Jack Hughes.
With power and a prodigious shot, Alex Ovechkin now stands where few in the NHL have been.
Defenseman P.K. Subban scored the winner on a power play early in the third period.
Louis Domingue made 36 saves for the Devils, who were shut out for the seventh time this season.
Nikita Gusev and Jesper Bratt scored in the tiebreaker for New Jersey, which beat the Blue Jackets for the first time in 10 meetings.
The Islanders have addressed one of their glaring needs, more than a week before the NHL trade deadline.
