Henrik Lundqvist’s Future Is Unknown After Rangers Buy Out His Contract

If he chooses to continue playing after 15 years in New York, Lundqvist, 38, will join a crowded goaltender market during this free agency period.

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One of the Lightning’s Cornerstones Was Out. The Other Stepped Up.

With Steven Stamkos injured for much of the postseason, Victor Hedman scored 10 goals to help Tampa Bay win its first Stanley Cup in the pair’s 11 seasons together.

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Tampa Bay Lightning Win Stanley Cup in Pandemic ‘Bubble’

The Lightning defeated the Dallas Stars, four games to two, to win their second championship, in a season upended by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Hockey Needs Viewers. It Should Not Glorify Pain and Violence to Get Them.

A promotional video posted by the N.H.L. that glorified pain showed a disturbing embrace of violence by the league. The post has since been deleted.

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Steven Stamkos Is Out for the Rest of the Stanley Cup

Stamkos, the Lightning’s captain and one of the league’s top scorers, made his only postseason appearance in Game 3 of the finals against Dallas after being out with an injury.

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Stars Beat Lightning in Double Overtime to Force Game 6

Corey Perry’s goal gave Dallas a 3-2 victory and stopped Tampa Bay from clinching its second Stanley Cup.

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Miro Heiskanen Is Dallas’s Do-Everything Defenseman

Heiskanen, 21, leads all players at that position in points this postseason and has impressed greats like Nicklas Lidstrom with his play.

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