Ava Jones, a rising high school senior from Kansas who verbally committed to Iowa’s women’s basketball team Sunday, was seriously injured along with her parents when they were struck by a car in Louisville on Tuesday night.
The Lightning and Rangers and the Kings and Golden Knights will open the NHL season on Oct. 11. The champion Avalanche will raise their banner the next day against the Blackhawks.
Former NHL defenseman Bryan Marchment, who played for parts of 17 NHL seasons and had been serving as a scout for the Sharks, died Wednesday in Montreal. He was 53.
Minnesota Wild general manager Bill Guerin said he is not “pushing the panic button” following a Russian media report that Kirill Kaprizov is wanted by police in a case involving fraudulent military IDs.