Hockey headlines for February 2, 2024

Friday, February 2, 2024

NHL all-star weekend begins in Toronto but focus remains on five players facing sexual-assault charges (Globe & Mail)
Leafs, Canucks captains get to stack their teams in all-star draft (Toronto Sun)
‘It’s been truly amazing’: Elias Lindholm says farewell to Flames fans (Calgary Sun)
Bumpy January? Elias Pettersson one of the NHL's stars of the month (Vancouver Province)
Flyers reportedly taking calls about trading Scott Laughton (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Avalanche’s Cale Makar on alleged 2018 incident: “I can’t stress enough that I wasn’t part of that” (Denver Post)
'A dream weekend': PWHL stars show off their skills at NHL all-star event (Toronto Star)
Wendel Clark confident NHL All Star game won’t be overshadowed by sexual-assault investigations (Globe & Mail)
NHL All-Star Weekend: Nathan MacKinnon picks Sidney Crosby (Denver Post)
Predators' Filip Forsberg, mustache picked by Justin Bieber's team at NHL All-Star Game (The Tennessean)
Rasmus Dahlin selected by Team McDavid in NHL All-Star player draft (Buffalo News)
Colorado's MacKinnon a big fan of new Isles coach Roy (New York Newsday)
Ex-DU coach Jim Montgomery is back at the NHL All-Star Game: “You’d run through a wall for a guy like that” (Denver Post)
Florida Panthers’ Sergei Bobrovsky is playing at an All-Star level and having fun doing it (Miami Herald)
With 500 career NHL goals in sight, Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin still drawing rave reviews from All-Star peers (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Flyers’ Travis Konecny ‘just trying to enjoy’ All-Star weekend the second time around (Philadelphia Inquirer)
How Hall of Famer Adam Oates helped Robert Thomas toward his first All-Star selection (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Rangers’ Vincent Trocheck receives high praise from fellow All-Stars: ‘Does everything’ (New York Post)
Jake Oettinger’s first NHL All-Star selection couldn’t have come at a better time (Dallas Morning News)
Rangers fan favorite Frank Vatrano looks back fondly at time in New York (New York Post)
Ex-Blackhawks forward Alex DeBrincat finding stability, reuniting with Patrick Kane in Detroit (Chicago Sun-Times)
Who is Hunter Brzustewicz? Meet the Flames’ new defence prospect (Calgary Sun)
Three ambitious centre targets for Jets (Winnipeg Sun)
Red-hot Rangers enter 2024 atop league standings (New York Newsday)
Even a conference-leading team like the Bruins has questions to answer before playoff time (Boston Globe)
The rebuilding Flyers are in playoff position at the All-Star break. Here’s how they’ve done it. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Why Lightning have given us reason to believe at NHL All-Star break (Tampa Bay Times)
Kraken’s confounding last loss to Sharks shifts tone heading into All-Star break (Seattle Times)
Defensive identity leads Wings into playoff contention at break (Detroit News)
Ottawa Senators head into 10-day break on a high after win Motor City (Ottawa Sun)
Blues at the break: The results have been there under Drew Bannister, but can they continue? (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Lalonde's message to Wings during long break has playoff implications (Detroit Free Press)
Auston Matthews' 70-goal pace for the Maple Leafs 'great for the league' (Toronto Sun)
Sharks’ Hertl spared awkwardness that Couture endured 12 years ago (San Jose Mercury News)
Philip Tomasino still earning Predators coach Andrew Brunette's trust (The Tennessean)
Filip Cederqvist one step closer to dream of playing for the Canadiens (Montreal Gazette)
PNC Arena could generate $3 billion for Wake County in next five years, report says (Raleigh News & Observer)
Mat Barzal doesn’t understand the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce hate: ‘I like it’ (New York Post)