Bruins’ Pastrnak, Marchand could miss start of next season
The Boston Bruins could be without twothirds of their top line when the next NHL season starts after the team said Tuesday that David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand each underwent surgery last month.
Pastrnak isn’t expected to be fully recovered and able to play until mid-March after an operation to repair a torn labrum in his right hip Sept. 16 in New York. Pastrnak shared the Rocket Richard Trophy by tying for the league lead with 48 goals last season and missed some time in the playoffs because of injury.
Marchand won’t be good to go until roughly mid-February after having a sports hernia repaired Sept. 14 at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass.. He was the NHL’s first-team All-Star left wing in the postseason voting after having 87 points on 28 goals and 59 assists in 70 games when play was halted.
Boston defenseman Charlie McAvoy had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee and is expected to be ready for the start of camp.
Duggan, a champion across women’s hockey, retires
In the midst of the U.S. women’s hockey national team fighting for better wages and equitable support, Meghan Duggan got on the phone with every player to explain what it was all about.
With the world championships on home ice weeks away and the stakes high, Duggan felt it was her duty as captain.
“When you think of a captain on your team and a leader on your team, you want someone that’s willing to do things that no one else is willing to do,” teammate Monique Lamoureux-Morando recalled.
Duggan did that on and off the ice, leading the U.S. to the 2018 Olympic gold medal and spearheading the wage boycott. A year earlier, that fight led to a new contract and a brighter spotlight on the sport.
Duggan recorded 75 points (45 goals, 30 assists) in 137 games in a U.S. uniform and helped transform the culture after a gutwrenching overtime loss to Canada in the
gold-medal game at the 2014 Sochi Games.
Marleau back with Sharks
Marleau rejoined San Jose, signing a one-year deal worth the league minimum of $700,000. The 41-year-old can now break Gordie Howe’s NHL games played record in the Sharks uniform he has worn for the vast majority of his career.
Marleau is fifth in games played and sits
44 shy of Howe’s mark going into next season, which the league is hoping to start Jan.
1. He played his first 19 seasons with the Sharks before leaving for two years in Toronto, returned last season and was traded to Pittsburgh at the deadline for a chance to win the Stanley Cup.
NWHL undergoes restructuring
NEW YORK » National Women’s Hockey League founder Dani Rylan Kearney is stepping down as commissioner as part of a restructuring of the league’s governing model.
The NWHL announced the shakeup that includes Tyler Tumminia being appointed as interim commissioner. Rylan Kearney will remain involved as president of an ownership group that controls four of the league’s six teams.
The restructuring is a result of the NWHL forming an incorporated association that will be overseen by a board of governors, with one representative per team.
Sagan wins 10th stage as Giro hit by virus positives
TORTORETO, ITALY » Peter Sagan won the hilly 10th stage of the Giro d’Italia, which was contested despite two teams withdrawing from the race because of coronavirus cases.
Sagan, a three-time world champ who is racing the Giro for the first time, was desperate for a win after three second-place results.
The race was disrupted before the stage when the Mitchelton-Scott and Jumbo-Visma teams withdrew. Four Mitchelton-Scott staff members tested positive. That came after Mitchelton-Scott team leader Simon Yates withdrew before Saturday’s eighth stage.