’CANES GET TROCHECK IN MULTIPLAYER DEAL
Hurricanes president Don Waddell resisted the urge to sign Zamboni driver David Ayres — or acquire anyone else, for that matter — to address Carolina’s injury-depleted goaltending ranks before the NHL trade deadline struck Monday.
Waddell, however, did manage to upgrade the rest of his roster to better position his team in the tightly contested Metropolitan Division over the final six weeks of the season.
The Hurricanes acquired center Vincent Trocheck in a multiplayer deal with Florida. And they bulked up their defense by adding Sami Vatanen from New Jersey and sending a first-round draft pick to land Brady Skjei from the New York Rangers.
The New York Islanders acquired Jean-Gabriel Pageau from the Ottawa Senators, and then signed the playmaking forward to a six-year contract extension.
Patrick Marleau is back in the Eastern Conference after the Pittsburgh Penguins acquired the 40-year-old in a trade with San Jose. The Penguins then brought back forward Conor Sheary, a member of Pittsburgh’s past two Stanley Cup winners, in a trade with Buffalo.
Overall, the 32 trades completed were the most on the NHL’s final day of trading. And the 55 players dealt matched the record set March 3, 2010.
Buffs lose Els to Michigan State.
EAST LANSING, MICH. » Michigan State hired Colorado’s Ross Els as specialteams coordinator and William Peagler as running backs coach.
Els, 54, has spent the last three seasons as the inside linebackers coach at CU, and he was the special-teams coordinator there in 2019. New Michigan State coach Mel Tucker came to the Spartans from Colorado.
Crosby signs extension with Packers.
GREEN BAY, WIS . » The Green Bay Packers have signed longtime placekicker Mason Crosby to a three-year contract extension.
The former CU All-American, who turns 36 in September, has been with the Packers since being selected in the sixth round of the 2007 draft. He’s appeared in every game since then. His string of 208 games are second in Packers history to Brett Favre’s 255. Crosby is one of four NFL players to appear in every regular-season game since 2007, joining former Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers, Baltimore punter Sam Koch, and Dallas long snapper L.P. LaDouceur.
Ex-tennis coach gets 6 months in admissions scam.
BOSTON » The former men’s tennis coach at the University of Texas at Austin sprinted away from a scrum of reporters and his own lawyers after he was sentenced to six months in prison for taking a $100,000 bribe as part of a sweeping college admissions scam.
Michael Center collapsed into his chair and sobbed with his face in his hands after the judge declared he would spend time behind bars for actions that undermined the public’s faith in the college admissions process.
Pacers’ Lamb done for season.
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INDIANAPOLIS
Jeremy Lamb will miss the rest of this season with a left knee injury.
Lamb was injured in the second quarter of the Pacers’ 46-point loss Sunday at Toronto. Team officials announced that he had a torn anterior cruciate ligament, a torn lateral meniscus and a lateral fracture in the bone.
Arriota to miss season.
NGTON» D.C. United midfielder WASH I
Paul Arriola had major knee surgery and probably will miss the entire Major League Soccer season and the United States’ first six qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup
The operation was to reconstruct his right anterior cruciate ligament. The team said there was no additional cartilage damage.
The 25-year-old midfielder injured his knee Feb. 15 during D.C. United’s preseason match against Orlando in Tampa, Fla.