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The Latest: San José returning to Shark Tank in mid-February
By The Associated PressJanuary 27, 2021 GMT
The San José Sharks finally know when they are returning home.
The team said Wednesday that it will return to the Shark Tank in San José for home games against Anaheim on Feb. 13 and 15 and play the remainder of the home schedule there without fans.
The Sharks will still play their first two scheduled “home” games of the season in Arizona against Vegas next week, even though Santa Clara County lifted its ban on contact sports earlier this week.
The Sharks say they need to work out several health and safety issues before returning to the Bay Area.
St. Louis Blues become fifth team to allow some fans
The St. Louis Blues are the latest NHL team to allow a limited number of fans into home games.
The team says up to 1,400 people will be allowed at its next set of home games Feb. 2-7.
As of now, the Blues would be the fifth NHL team to allow fans into their arena, joining the Florida Panthers, Arizona Coyotes, Dallas Stars and Nashville Predators. Nashville allowed only a couple of hundred fans for its game Tuesday night, the first with them in the building.
Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said before the season began that Pittsburgh and Columbus were among the other teams making plans. The defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning originally planned to host 3,800 fans a game but postponed that because of a spike in COVID-19 cases in the area.
NHL roundup: Penguins GM Jim Rutherford surprisingly steps down
Jim Rutherford, 71, arrived in 2014 and now cites personal reasons for leaving after he helped Pittsburgh win back-to-back Stanley Cup titles.
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PITTSBURGH Jim Rutherford arrived in Pittsburgh in the summer of 2014 tasked with jump-starting a star-laden but stalled franchise to life.
By the end of his third season as general manager, the Penguins became the first team in a generation to win consecutive Stanley Cup titles.
Those banners will serve as long-lasting reminders of the success of Rutheford’s tenure, one that came to an abrupt end on Wednesday when the 71-year-old Hall of Famer resigned just two weeks into the abbreviated 2021 season.