Canada and Germany will play for gold at the 2023 World Hockey Championship on Sunday after tight victories on semifinal Saturday. Canada has advanced to the title game for the seventh time over the past eight years.
It’s a significant return for the Blues but likely still one that fans will be disappointed with. Tarasenko has been a favorite in St. Louis for more than a decade and was a key part of the franchise’s first (and only) Stanley Cup championship in 2019.
New York Rangers forward Sammy Blais did not get to take part in the club's exciting playoff run this spring, as he went down with a torn ACL in his right knee on Nov. 14 and missed the rest of the season.
While the Montreal Canadiens and Vegas Golden Knights make major trades, the New York Rangers have been content to spend their early offseason getting some smaller business done first.
Blais suffered the injury on Sunday following an unfortunate and controversial collision with Devils defenseman P.K. Subban in the third period of that contest.
April 2020 saw the extensions of Joonas Korpisalo and Elvis Merzlikins for the Blue Jackets, and Sammy Blais and Marco Scandella of the Blues. And a pair of longtime NHL veterans decided to call it a career.
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