Author: Mike Brehm, USA TODAY

Andrei Svechnikov left after getting tangled up with Zdeno Chara. Bruins’ Jack Edwards tweets Hurricanes forward “bit off more than he could chew.”

The Canadiens and Blackhawks, who wouldn’t have made the playoffs under normal circumstances, knock out Penguins and Oilers in four games.

Speaking in Edmonton before a playoff game, Minnesota Wild defenseman Matt Dumba said, “Racism is everywhere, and we need to fight against it.”

NHL season, which has been shut down since March because of the coronavirus pandemic, gets back underway with five games Saturday.

Minnesota Twins and St. Louis Cardinals stop play at Target Field in fifth inning to pay tribute to George Floyd, who died in police custody in May.

Pittsburgh Penguins say nine players had contact with an “individual who had contact with a person that has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.”

The NHL is hoping the precautions it is taking at training camp and at hub cities in Toronto and Edmonton will allow it to award the Stanley Cup.

President Trump, who took issue with NFL players kneeling during the national anthem in 2017, weighed in again after comments by the Saints star.

Former NHL player Georges Laraque, hospitalized with COVID-19 last week, says quarantining players for two to three months would be “unfair.”

Georges Laraque, who had been training for a marathon before contracting COVID-19, says, “I can’t even get up without losing my breath.”