National Hockey

SUNRISE — Paul Maurice saw a younger version of himself. He just didn't think the fit was right. The Winnipeg Jets head coach was interviewing candidates to fill an assistant role in 2016. Kris Knoblauch was No.

SUNRISE — Connor McDavid will make his Stanley Cup final debut as his Edmonton Oilers face the Florida Panthers. Game 1 is tonight at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla.

SUNRISE — Leon Draisaitl has been repeatedly asked about Connor McDavid ever since the pair first hit the ice together as teammates in 2015. Fast-forward some nine years later, not much has changed.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Macklin Celebrini has a pretty good idea his NHL future rests with the San Jose Sharks, who hold the first pick in the draft.

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Stuart Skinner has taken to reading books as a way of taking his mind off the sport of hockey and his job as an NHL goaltender of getting in front of frozen rubber disks fired at him at 90-plus mph.

SUNRISE — Connor McDavid was in the midst of a hockey nightmare. The superstar captain's Edmonton Oilers — among the Stanley Cup favourites in training camp — had just suffered another demoralizing loss.

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — By the time he was old enough to watch NHL games growing up in Sweden, Oliver Ekman-Larsson began dreaming about playing in the Stanley Cup Final .

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Kyle Okposo's first Stanley Cup memory came as an 8-year-old boy, when he watched the Colorado Avalanche defeat the Florida Panthers in the 1996 Stanley Cup Final.

SUNRISE, Fla.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Oilers not only have the opportunity to bring the long-awaited Stanley Cup back to Canada, they also could bring a major financial windfall to two Colorado sports bar owners.