Team Latvia has become one of the great underdog ... some NHL treatment from a veteran Columbus Blue Jackets goalie. Elvis Merzlikins is a native of Riga, Latvia and before suiting up with the ...

TORONTO -- Adam Fantilli scored his first NHL hat trick, and the Columbus Blue Jackets defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-1 at Scotiabank Arena on Wednesday. Fantilli, who grew up in Nobleton, Ontario ...

There’s no argument: we’re in a golden age of goaltending in the National Hockey League right now, but it’s a world of haves and have-nots. The gap between the greats in the game and ...

Still, there’s nothing purely North American about the NHL, not any longer anyway, not based on a birth-country-by-country breakdown of the 712 players listed as active on team rosters at the ...

Merzlikins will get the starting nod at home versus Utah on Thursday, Mark Scheig of The Hockey Writers reports. Merzlikins has dropped two straight games in which he posted a combined 4.19 GAA and .

The Columbus Blue Jackets remain in the thick of the playoff race in the Eastern Conference as the calendar is about ready to ...

Merzlikins made 18 saves in Tuesday's 3-2 loss to Buffalo. He had little chance on any of the pucks that got past him, including two second-period tip-ins by Alex Tuch, and the final score might ...

Several individual performances are worth noting as to why the team is in the hunt ... getting more from their goaltending specifically Elvis Merzlikins. Since the game that Merzlkins stopped ...

Elvis Merzlikins and the motivation stemming from ... and he was playing against his former team. The victory gets the Blue Jackets back on a winning track after they’d dropped their previous ...

Linus Ullmark, OTT @ Andrei Vasilevskiy, TB (7 p.m. ET) Adin Hill, LV @ Jake Allen, NJ (7 p.m. ET) Charlie Lindgren, WSH @ Samuel Ersson, PHI (7 p.m. ET) Connor Ingram, UTAH @ Elvis Merzlikins ...

Adam Fantilli, skating in his 100th career game, scored the other Blue Jackets goal, and Elvis Merzlikins stopped 25 shots. About the Spec ...

goalie Elvis Merzlikins (31 saves), a growing confidence level and another memorable goal by Kirill Marchenko 3:45 into overtime. “I think you can see the makeup of our team and how much each ...