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The National Hockey League (NHL) will halt its season Wednesday as fear spreads over the omicron coronavirus variant. 

BOSTON (AP) — The NHL on Saturday shut down the Boston Bruins and Nashville Predators through Christmas, bringing to five the number of teams in COVID-19 limbo. Weekend games for the Canucks and Maple Leafs also were postponed as the league tries to control a spiraling outbreak in its locker rooms.

A female hockey fan at a Golden Knights game in Vegas decided to remove her prosthetic leg and beat another fan with it during a brawl in the stands.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The NHL has suspended San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane for 21 games for submitting a fake COVID-19 vaccination card.

As the Seattle Kraken met the Nashville predators on the ice, the fans met each other with fists in the stands.

The games don’t matter yet, so fights don’t usually get all that serious during the National Hockey League (NHL) preseason, but this one definitely did.

The Washington Capitals have become the first team in NHL history to sell advertising on their jerseys. The Capitals first ad partner will be Caesar’s Entertainment.

A 20-year-old prospective player for the St. Louis Blues was robbed at gunpoint on the grounds of the famed St. Louis Arch on Monday evening.

The Columbus Blue Jackets announced that assistant coach Sylvain Lefebvre, who declined to get a COVID-19 vaccination, has been released.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — (AP) — The NHL’s Nashville Predators’ home arena will require proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test at least through Nov. 15.

The Toronto Maple Leafs hired Dusty Imoo to be goaltending coach for the Marlies. Still, they fired him only two days later when the club found out he had “liked” a long list of Trump MAGA tweets, especially tweets posted during the January 6th Capitol riot.

A medical examiner in Michigan has announced that an autopsy has found that Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Matiss Kivlenieks died after receiving trauma to the chest from a firework explosion and not a fall as previously reported.

Latvia’s Matiss Kivlenieks, a candidate to be the Columbus Blue Jackets’ future starting goaltender, died in Michigan on Sunday night after fleeing a hot tub and hitting his head following a Fourth of July fireworks accident. He was 24.

The San Jose Sharks came under intense fire on social media Wednesday after the team posted a pic that seemed to show a shark freeing slaves.

The Pittsburgh Penguins posted that a jury was not necessary to prove that Derek Chauvin “murdered” George Floyd last May.

A Pennsylvania politician is suggesting that only vaccinated fans should be allowed to attend Buffalo Bills and Sabers games.

ANOKA, Minn. (AP) — Last month’s death of “Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey standout Mark Pavelich was ruled a suicide, a Minnesota medical examiner said Monday.

The NHL announced Wednesday that Tim Peel’s career as a league referee is over after he was picked up by a TV microphone saying he wanted to give the Nashville Predators a penalty, an incident that put the notion of “make-up” calls squarely in the spotlight.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A referee wearing a microphone for the Detroit-Nashville game Tuesday night was heard over the TV broadcast saying he wanted to call a penalty against the Predators.

Pro sports lost an incredible amount of money last year, with each league losing revenue in every area from fan support to sponsorship.

The Penguins suffered a backlash after posting a social media message in which masks were photoshopped onto the faces of several fans.

The New York Rangers released a statement Monday announcing that forward Artemi Panarin will take a leave of absence following the publication of what sources say is a “political hit piece” by Russian media.

Tampa Mayor Jane Castor is being labeled a hypocrite for threatening Floridians with arrest for not wearing masks, while she has reportedly been spotted maskless on several occasions.

Former Detroit Red Wings star Darren McCarty on Monday pleaded with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) to lift the state’s ban on winter contact sports such as football, basketball, wrestling, hockey and competitive cheer in the name of mitigating the spread of COVID-19.

Less than four months after the New York Rangers hockey team signed a two-year, $9.6-million deal with defenseman Tony DeAngelo, and less than a month since DeAngelo criticized Twitter for banning former President Trump, the team has put him on waiver.

NBC Sports Network will cease operations in 2021 and transfer their sports rights to USA Network, according to an internal company memo.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin and three other Washington Capitals players were added to the NHL’s COVID-19 list Wednesday and the team was fined $100,000 by the league for violating coronavirus protocols, including a gathering in a hotel room.

New York Rangers defenseman Tony DeAngelo deleted his Twitter account and called the social media site a “disgrace,” after the site permanently banned President Trump.

For those of you bothered by the steady encroachment of corporate sponsorship into the sports world, get ready to be extremely bothered.

The year of coronavirus was a major disaster for professional sports as every league suffered ratings declines, and lost billions in revenue.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are worth a lot of money. So, given that, it may surprise you to learn that the team received $4.82 million in Payment Protection Program loans.

Those wishing that corporate America would stop encroaching on the world of professional sports will have to continue wishing.

Hockey is set to return Jan. 13 after the NHL and players completed a deal Sunday to hold a 56-game season that would include playoffs lasting into July to award the Stanley Cup.

The Chicago Blackhawks have again committed to keeping their more than 60-year-old name despite pressure from activists to make a change.

Just because the sports world somehow navigated the 2019-2020 season, doesn’t mean they’ve got the 2020-2021 season figured out.

The Vancouver Canucks hockey team is the latest sports organization to receive criticism that their team name or logo negatively impacts the Native American community.