Coyotes acquire Hall from Devils for picks, prospects
Farabee hit with three-game suspension for check
The Arizona Coyotes are looking to end their lengthy playoff drought by adding a player desperate to get back to the postseason himself.
Arizona acquired standout winger Taylor Hall from the New Jersey Devils Monday for three prospects and two draft picks. The Coyotes will try to end their seven-year playoff drought by adding the 2018 NHL MVP who has made the postseason just once in his first nine seasons.
Hall goes to the Coyotes along with Blake Speer in exchange for forward prospects Nick Merkley and Nate Schnarr, defensive prospect Kevin Bahl, a 2020 firstround pick and a conditional third-round pick in 2021.
The third-rounder becomes a second-rounder if the Coyotes win a playoff round or Hall re-signs and elevates to a first if both happen. The first-round
The NHL’s Department of Player Safety exacerbated the Flyers’ forward woes Monday night.
The league assessed a three-game suspension to Joel Farabee for a hit that drew a match penalty in Sunday’s loss to the Jets.
Farabee got the gate in Winnipeg for what was whistled as a major for interference, his late hit on Mathieu Perreault laying out the Jets’ forward at 9:03 of the second period. Winnipeg scored twice on
pick is top-three protected.
Kings put Kovalchuk on waivers for release
EL SEGUNDO, CALIF. >> Veteran forward Ilya Kovalchuk the ensuing power play on the way to four goals in four minutes, 17 seconds to turn a close game into a 7-3 rout.
The suspension is without pay, meaning Farabee will forfeit $14,919.36 in salary. It’s the first such offense for the 19-yearold rookie, who has three goals and 11 points in 27 games with the big club. That didn’t stop the NHL from levying a hefty sentence on the 14th overall pick in the 2018 draft.
has been placed on waivers by the Los Angeles Kings after a tumultuous 81-game stint with the last-place club.
The Kings made the move Monday “for the purpose
The absence adds to the Flyers’ depth issues, coming off an 0-3 road swing for Tuesday’s home game against the Anaheim Ducks. They’ve scored just 10 goals in five games, held to one goal in three of them, to slip to fifth in the Metropolitan Division.
Sunday, the Flyers placed Travis Konecny on injured reserve with a concussion, suffered in a Dec. 7 win over Ottawa. That hit, by Mark Borowiecki
of terminating his contract with the club,” they said in a statement.
The 36-year-old Kovalchuk hasn’t played for Los Angeles since Nov. 9. The move came one day after
late in the first period, went unpenalized. (It also led to Farabee’s first NHL fighting major, and he dropped the gloves again in Saturday’s loss in Minnesota.)
The Wild game cost the Flyers Scott Laughton and Tyler Pitlick, both of whom left with injuries. And that came a day after Friday’s news that Oskar Lindblom would miss the season while he fights Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer.
Kovalchuk received a $2.65 million roster bonus.
The former 50-goal scorer and three-time AllStar rejoined the NHL with the Kings in 2018, agreeing to a three-year contract worth $6.25 million after a five-year stint in Russia. PANTHERS 6, SENATORS 1 >> Noel Acciari scored three times for his first career hat trick as Florida snapped a three-game losing streak.
Aleksander Barkov, Mike Matheson and Dominic Toninato also scored for Florida, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 29 shots. Jonathan Huberdeau had four assists, giving him 400 career points.
BLUE JACKETS 3, CAPITALS
0 >> Oliver Bjorkstrand contributed a pair of goals and Joonas Korpisalo notched his third career shutout.
Korpisalo, who stopped
30 shots, is undefeated in three games against the Capitals.
PREDATORS 5, RANGERS 2 >> Roman Josi had two goals and an assist, and Juuse Saros stopped 39 shots for Nashville.
Rocco Grimaldi, Mattias Ekholm and Ryan Ellis also scored for the Predators.