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7/22/2024 |  Pure Hockey to Open Second Las Vegas Location (SGB UPDATE) Pure Hockey will open a new store in Las Vegas, NV, in late fall 2024, its second in the city, following the opening of its first store in fall 2022 after acquiring The Penalty Box retail store.
With 81 retail stores nationwide, Pure Hockey said it continues to strengthen its commitment to serving the hockey community.

7/3/2024 |  Jessica Campbell becomes first full-time female NHL assistant coach (United Press International (UPI)) July 3 (UPI) -- Jessica Campbell on Wednesday became the NHL's first full-time assistant coach, making history the second time after first breaking the glass ceiling in the AHL.

7/2/2024 |  Analysis: Big spenders across the NHL made winners out of free agents across the league (Associated Press (AP)) Brad Treliving kept hearing the message from agents he talked to at the start of NHL free agency.
“The cap’s going up,” the Toronto Maple Leafs general manager said. “They reminded me the cap was going up.”
The salary cap went up significantly for the first time in several years to $88 million per team, a result of record revenues that sparked a historic day of spending. The biggest winners this year are the players who got to the open market as teams committed over $1 billion in salaries.

7/2/2024 |  Florida Panthers games are moving from cable to local broadcast stations (CNBC Sports)

• The Florida Panthers — the NHL Stanley Cup champions — are the latest team to leave behind their cable TV regional sports network for a broadcast network home, striking a deal with E.W. Scripps.
• The Panthers originally aired their regular season games on Bally Sports Florida, a network owned by Diamond Sports Group, which has been under bankruptcy protection for the last year.
• The Panthers join numerous professional sports teams that are finding a new home for regular season games on broadcast TV.

7/2/2024 |  NHL Releases Full 2024–2025 Schedule With Special Events (SportsTravel) The National Hockey League 2024–2025 regular season will start in Europe and include games in multiple countries, new venues, the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off and the first action of the relocated Utah Hockey Club.
The season begins October 4, when the Buffalo Sabres play the New Jersey Devils in the 2024 NHL Global Series at O2 Arena in Prague, Czechia. The Global Series will include the  Sabres and Devils in regular-season games on October 4 and October 5 in Prague before the Dallas Stars and Florida Panthers will play games in Tampere, Finland, on November 1 and November 2.