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A person with direct knowledge of discussions said the NHL is beginning a league-wide shutdown Wednesday amid an increase of positive COVID-19 test results among players across the league.

The NHL is postponing 12 games between U.S.-based teams and Canadian squads through Dec. 23. And officials are mulling participation in the Beijing Olympics.

The NHL has postponed the Tampa Bay Lightning's game against the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday after shutting down all of the Avalanche's upcoming games due to rising COVID cases.

Try to keep up: The New Jersey Devils have unveiled a new jersey with the word "Jersey" on the front to show off their Jersey pride.

Joel Quenneville resigned as coach of the Florida Panthers on Thursday, two days after the second-winningest coach in NHL history was among those implicated for not swiftly responding to allegations by a Chicago Blackhawks player of being sexually assaulted by another coach during the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs.

The Chicago Blackhawks mishandled allegations that an assistant coach sexually assaulted a player during the team’s Stanley Cup run in 2010, according to an investigation commissioned by the franchise that cast a shadow over the NHL on Tuesday.

The Boston College hockey star and former NHL player Jimmy Hayes has died.

Luke Prokop is the first active NHL player to come out as gay. “I am no longer scared to hide who I am,” he wrote in an Instagram post.

The Tampa Bay Lightning Stanley Cup championship parade wrapped up after sailing through downtown Tampa. Tens of thousands of Bolts fans hit the Tampa Riverwalk to celebrate the home team’s back-to-back Stanley Cup wins, though Mother Nature ultimately crashed the party.

Thousands of bolts fans will converge on the riverfront Monday morning for a boat parade to celebrate back-to-back Stanley Cup Champions, the Tampa Bay Lightning.

The Tampa Bay Lightning’s championship boat parade will kick off at 11 a.m. Monday, sailing down the Hillsborough River before a "huge celebration” at Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park. Here's the schedule and the route.

It only took scoring once for the Tampa Bay Lightning to strike twice and repeat as Stanley Cup champions.

Latvia's Matiss Kivlenieks, a candidate to be the Columbus Blue Jackets' future goaltender, died in Michigan on Sunday night after fleeing a hot tub and hitting his head following a Fourth of July fireworks accident.

The President of the United States has accepted a bet with the Canadian Prime Minister on which country's team will win the 2021 Stanley Cup Final. 

Tampa Bay is going for a third title since beginning play in 1993, the last year the Canadiens — or any team from Canada — won the Cup, making this a matchup of old-school winners against a modern-hockey model of success.

The Tampa Bay Lightning is headed back to the Stanley Cup Final. Andrei Vasilevskiy had 18 saves and Yanni Gaurde scored a short-handed goal to help the defending Stanley Cup Champions beat the New York Islanders 1-0 in Game 7 of their NHL playoff semifinal series on Friday night.

The Chicago Blackhawks are going to remain the Blackhawks and there is no sign of a change coming anytime soon.