The Calgary Flames and general manager Brad Treliving have agreed to end his tenure, the club announced Monday.
Don Maloney will take over as president of hockey operations and interim GM. The 64-year-old had been the team's senior vice president of hockey operations.
Treliving's contract expires June 30. The Flames hired the 53-year-old in April 2014.
The Flames fell two points shy of a playoff berth following an offseason in which they lost Johnny Gaudreau in free agency and were forced to trade Matthew Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers. Treliving was lauded at the time for acquiring prolific winger Jonathan Huberdeau, dependable defenseman Mackenzie Weegar, and prospect Cole Schwindt in that deal.
Sarah Nurse scored the overtime winner as Canada escaped the quarterfinal round with a 3-2 win over Sweden at the Women's World Hockey Championship on Thursday.
Canada dominated the game, outshooting Sweden 48-14, including an 18-5 margin in the second frame.
In the semifinals, the Canadians will face the winner of the quarterfinal matchup between Switzerland and Japan. The United States will face Czechia in the other semifinal.
Earlier Thursday, the U.S. blanked Germany 3-0, while Czechia edged Finland 2-1.
Canada defeated the United States 2-1 to win gold at last year's tournament.
The New York Islanders booked the final spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs and dashed the Pittsburgh Penguins' postseason hopes with a 4-2 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night.
The Islanders only needed one point against the Habs to nab the last wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. The Florida Panthers secured the other one Tuesday night.
Pittsburgh last missed the playoffs in 2005-06, Sidney Crosby's rookie campaign. The Pens made 16 consecutive postseason appearances between 2006-07 and 2021-22.
This is the first time both NHL teams in Pennsylvania have failed to qualify since 1989-90.
New York will return to the playoffs after missing out last season. The Isles reached the semifinal round in 2020 and 2021, losing to the eventual champion Tampa Bay Lightning both times.
The Penguins re-upped franchise fixtures Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang last summer, inking Malkin to a four-year deal and Letang to a six-year pact. Crosby is signed through 2024-25.
Melbourne, Australia will play host to the first-ever NHL games in the southern hemisphere when the Arizona Coyotes and Los Angeles Kings meet in exhibition matchups on September 23 and 24, the league announced Tuesday.
The preseason tilts will be held at Rod Laver Arena - the multipurpose site of the Australian Open tennis tournament - and will be part of the league's annual Global Series.
"The Arizona Coyotes and Los Angeles Kings are two of our league's rising young teams and among our most innovative and adventurous franchises," NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said in a statement. "We look forward to their two games at Rod Laver Arena and know this history-making visit will thrill our many avid fans in Australia and cause so many more throughout the sports-loving nation to be captivated by our great game."
The Kings are no strangers to lengthy flights, having played preseason games in China back in 2017. They've also flown to Austria and Germany for exhibition contests, and played in Germany for regular season games, along with visits to England, and Sweden.
Jordan Spence is an Australian-born Japanese-Canadian defenseman who's primarily suited up for Los Angeles' AHL affiliate, the Ontario Reign, this season. He's appeared in six games with the NHL club during this campaign after getting in 24 contests with the Kings in 2021-22. Spence was born in Manly, New South Wales before moving Osaka, Japan, as a child and then to Prince Edward Island as a teenager.
The Coyotes have played a preseason game in Latvia and two regular season tilts in Czechia.
The Nashville Predators and San Jose Sharks flew to Germany and Switzerland last October for preseason games, then opened the regular season by facing off twice in Czechia.
Tommy Novak netted the winner in the shootout as the Nashville Predators prevailed 3-2 over the Calgary Flames on Monday, eliminating the hosts from playoff contention.
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Earlier in the shootout, Calgary head coach Darryl Sutter went with grinder Nick Ritchie over the team's leading scorer, Tyler Toffoli, and 17-goal producer Andrew Mangiapane.
"Not much difference, if you do the percentages or odds," Sutter said postgame, according to TSN's Salim Nadim Valji. "You're going on practices, you're going on guys that have scored against (Predators goaltender Juuse Saros). That's not the point. It really had no bearing on the game. The difference is those great chances in overtime."
The Flames were expected to contend for the Pacific Division title this season.
The Boston Bruins established a new NHL record for wins in a single regular season Sunday, claiming their 63rd in a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.
Boston surpassed the 2018-19 Tampa Bay Lightning and 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings, whom they tied Saturday night with a win over the New Jersey Devils. The league-leading Bruins set the record in their 80th game of 2022-23.
They need two more points to break the NHL single-season record.
The Bruins have skated circles around the rest of the league during this campaign. They clinched the Presidents' Trophy on March 30.
However, Boston has four shootout wins in 2022-23, along with five points earned in overtime or shootout losses - advantages from which the 1995-96 Red Wings and all other teams in NHL history before 2005-06 couldn't benefit.
Knies was one of three finalists for the Hobey Baker Award, which the NCAA bestows annually to its top men's hockey player.
The 20-year-old winger produced 21 goals and 21 assists in 40 games with the University of Minnesota this season. He helped the Golden Gophers reach the national championship game, which they lost to Quinnipiac on Saturday.
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mitch Marner's three points in a 7-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night gave him a new career high of 98 in a single campaign.
Marner opened the scoring just over nine minutes into the game. He then notched the primary assist on John Tavares' tally around six minutes later to tie his previous personal best in the NHL, which he achieved last season. Marner buried his second goal of the contest - his 30th of the campaign - early in the second period for his 98th point of 2022-23.
Johnathan Kovacevic provided the Canadiens' lone goal less than three minutes into the second period.
Tavares added an insurance marker just over six minutes into the final frame, while William Nylander, Auston Matthews, and Michael Bunting netted the other Toronto tallies. Matthews also registered three assists, while both Ryan O'Reilly and Erik Gustafsson picked up three helpers apiece for the Maple Leafs.
University of Toronto goaltender Jett Alexander entered the game for the Leafs in the final minute. Toronto signed the 23-year-old to an amateur tryout contract before the game, and he backed up Ilya Samsonov, who turned aside all but one of 21 shots.
Marner, who turns 26 next month, set the career high in his 78th game of the season. He racked up 97 points across only 72 contests in 2021-22.
The winger is only the second member of the Maple Leafs ever to produce back-to-back 97-point seasons or better. Doug Gilmour did so when he amassed 127 in 1992-93 and then 111 in 1993-94.
Toronto further solidified its second-place standing in the Atlantic Division, improving to 47-21-11. The Leafs will round out their regular-season schedule on the road against the Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning, and New York Rangers on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, respectively.
The Canadiens sit last in the Atlantic and are near the bottom of the league standings, falling to 31-43-6 with the defeat.
Darryl Sutter questioned the effort of several of his players following Tuesday's crucial loss to the Chicago Blackhawks - without naming names, of course.
"Just to sum it up, when you can see the fatigue, or you don't have great legs, you just got to keep your game really simple," the Calgary Flames head coach said after the 4-3 defeat. "Some of us didn't manage the puck very well.
"I just don't know that the energy was there," Sutter added. "Some of our guys looked like they had flat tires."
Flames forward Mikael Backlund wondered if the team had prepared more for Wednesday's clash with the Winnipeg Jets than Tuesday's tilt with the lowly Blackhawks.
"Maybe too many of us were thinking about tomorrow's game and thinking too far ahead," Backlund said.
Backlund's teammate, Nazem Kadri, committed a pair of costly giveaways that led to goals. On Chicago's second tally, he recovered a Blackhawks dump-in but then coughed the puck up behind the net with a one-handed tap to opposing winger Boris Katchouk, who shoveled it to Jujhar Khaira for a backhand goal in the final minute of the opening frame.
"(I) just turned it over, (they) made a nice play," Kadri said. "The ice was getting a little chippy there at the end of the period. We've got to simplify our game, and we can't make those mistakes."
The Flames haven't been eliminated from playoff contention, but they lost all three games against Chicago this season. The Blackhawks entered Tuesday sitting dead last in the NHL and have been at or near the bottom of the standings for most of the campaign.
Winnipeg has two more points than Calgary with a game in hand. The Jets occupy the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference.
The #Flames' regulation loss to Chicago clinches the tiebreaker for Winnipeg; Calgary's tragic number drops to 3.
Any combination of #Flames losses or Winnipeg wins adding to 3 mathematically eliminates them from playoff contention.
The Flames have four more contests on their regular-season schedule. After battling the Jets on the road Wednesday, they'll travel to Vancouver to play the Canucks on Saturday before finishing up by hosting the Nashville Predators on Monday and the San Jose Sharks on April 12.
The Tampa Bay Lightning will face the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the second straight year.
Tampa Bay clinched a postseason berth with a 5-0 victory over the New York Islanders on Saturday night.
The Bolts vanquished the Leafs in seven games in 2022. They reached the Cup Final, losing in six to the Colorado Avalanche. Tampa got to the championship round for the third time in as many years after winning back-to-back titles.
Home-ice advantage for the upcoming series hasn't yet been determined. Toronto sits second in the Atlantic Division, four points ahead of the third-place Lightning with two games in hand. Both clubs earned shutout wins Saturday, as the Leafs defeated the Ottawa Senators 3-0.
Toronto clinched a playoff spot Monday when the Senators beat the Florida Panthers. The Leafs have qualified for seven straight seasons but will be looking to win a series for the first time since 2004.