NHL Headlines August 19, 2020

Anthony Scultore |

Aug 19, 2020

Good Day Fans! Get your motor running with your favorite coffee and your new favorite website covering all things hockey. There’s plenty of news to go over today, so let’s hit the ice.

NHL Headlines – best columns around the web

Sportsnet: Ovechkin saves Capitals from sweep in GOATee Game: ‘It was belief’

ESPN: Golden Knights’ Robin Lehner emotional in handshake line with Blackhawks, his former team

The Daily Goal Horn: Dale Hawerchuck loses his battle to cancer, a hockey legend too soon

dale hawerchuk death — Dale Hawerchuk, gone too soon (Graig Abel / Getty Images)

NHL: Hawerchuk, who dies at 57, mourned by Gretzky, hockey world

TSN: Tarasenko (shoulder) returning to St. Louis

Forever Blueshirts: Slo-mo video shows how close Toronto came to winning the lottery

The Draft Analyst: 2020 NHL Draft Prospect Profiles

NHL Videos – all the action from yesterday

Daily NHL Tweets

Hockey in August? No problem for the NHL and NBC Sports thus far.

Through 23 games in the quarterfinal round, the playoffs are averaging 618,000 viewers across NBC, NBCSN, USA and CNBC.

That is +3% from first 23 games last postseason in mid-April 2019
— Austin Karp (@AustinKarp) August 18, 2020

Stanley Cup Champion Tom Wilson just ate Anders Lee for lunch pic.twitter.com/3QzIWsfBlg
— Nate (@BarstoolNate) August 12, 2020

The NHL mourns the passing of Dale Hawerchuk, an instant and enduring star who captured the hearts of two hockey-loving cities over the course of his 16-season NHL career.

Full statement from Commissioner Bettman: https://t.co/WEMfIXoo2d pic.twitter.com/8sZPSUXQdS
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) August 18, 2020