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The Boston Bruins are the NHL's best team in the standings, and their front office is all in after its blockbuster trade with the Washington Capitals.

The NHL-leading Boston Bruins have acquired defenseman Dmitry Orlov and forward Garnet Hathaway from the Washington Capitals.

“Persons of interest” have been identified, deputies say.

Erik Haula scored a tiebreaking goal in the second period and the Boston Bruins pulled away with three more in the third to beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-1.

Charlie Coyle scored on a wrist shot from the slot 34 seconds into overtime and Boston completed a 4-3 comeback victory over the Buffalo Sabres in the Bruins’ first game in 16 days.

The Montreal Canadiens and Philadelphia Flyers played in an empty Bell Centre on Thursday night because of a spiraling rise of COVID-19 cases.

A person with direct knowledge of discussions tells The Associated Press that the NHL is reintroducing enhanced COVID-19 protocols.

The Carolina Hurricanes became the latest NHL club to be hit with a coronavirus outbreak.

We’ve put together a list of the top 10 Muskegon-area boys basketball games to circle on your calendars this winter, as the season gets underway on Tuesday. Below are the top 10 games to watch this season. They’ll travel to Orchard View on Jan. 7 and if they manage a massive road win that night, they could clinch the league title in February with a home win over the Cardinals. The two teams will meet on Jan. 14 but the rematch later in the season could determine the outcome of the league title race. Grant will travel to take on the Cardinals at the end of the regular season in a game that could clinch the league title for the Tigers.

Artemi Panarin scored the first of New York’s three third-period goals with 8:25 left and the Rangers beat the Boston Bruins 5-2 to give coach Gerard Gallant the best start in his first 20 games as coach.

Charlie Coyle had the only score in the shootout and the Boston Bruins beat Florida 3-2 Saturday night, ending the Panthers’ season-opening winning streak at eight games.

MUSKEGON, MI – A new restaurant at the Muskegon Country Club will replace the former Se4sons Gastropub. The owners of the country club are planning for the restaurant to open in the spring of 2022. Related: New owners of historic Muskegon County Club plan for ‘business as usual’Established in 1908, the Muskegon Country Club is located on 130 acres of dunes between Lake Michigan and Muskegon Lake. The group owns five private and three public golf clubs across the region, including StoneWater Country Club, Sunnybrook Country Club, Thousand Oaks Golf Club, Watermark Country Club, Macatawa Golf Club, Ravines Golf Club and The Golf Club at Thornapple Pointe. RedWater managed the Muskegon Country Club this summer and officially closed on the property on Friday, Sept. 10.

Brad Marchand scored 3:36 into overtime and the Boston Bruins beat the New York Islanders 2-1 in Game 3 to take the lead in the second-round playoff series.

Craig Smith scored 5:48 into the second overtime to give the Boston Bruins a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals and a 2-1 lead in their East Division first-round playoff series.

Tristan Jarry made 29 saves for his first shutout of the season and Jake Guentzel scored in the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 1-0 victory over the Boston Bruins on Sunday.

MUSKEGON, MI – Members of the prominent Muskegon Country Club can expect little to change under its new ownership. Related: Muskegon Country Club sold to regional golf club collectiveMuskegon Country Club was member-owned until MCC Partners LLC, a group of investors, purchased it in 2014. Existing Muskegon Country Club staff will be rehired, a news release said. Windward Pointe seen from Muskegon Country Club on Tuesday, June 2, 2018 in Muskegon, Michigan. The group now owns five private and three golf clubs across the region, including StoneWater Country Club, Sunnybrook Country Club, Thousand Oaks Golf Club, Watermark Country Club, Macatawa Golf Club, Ravines Golf Club and The Golf Club at Thornapple Pointe.

The postponement of the game was the 38th overall this season for coronavirus-related reasons, and first to involve the seven-team all-Canadian North Division. The 10 players listed matches the most since Feb. 21. A total of 157 NHL players have now spent at least one day in the COVID-19 protocol this season. The NHL on Friday postponed two Bruins games after four more Boston players entered the COVID protocol, for a total of five. Sweeney said the players were driven separately back to Boston from Buffalo after that game was postponed.

Boston Bruins right wing David Pastrnak (88) celebrates his goal with the bench during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Washington Capitals, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, in Washington. Buoyed by their top scorer's first two goals of the season and a big rookie's fight against one of the toughest players in hockey, the Bruins erased a three-goal deficit to beat the Washington Capitals 5-3 on Monday night. “In the box, I was like a little kid in there just jumping around when we scored,” Frederic said. The Capitals had front-row seats for Pastrnak's breakout performance in his second game after undergoing offseason hip surgery. Former Bruins captain Zdeno Chara scored in his second game against his old team.

MONTAGUE – Drew Collins said his dad is not the type to rehash his glory days as a Montague football player. “See, he does like talking about it,” Drew Collins wisecracked following his father’s brief moment of reminiscing. RELATED: Montague father, son are seeking storybook endingMona Shores also has the father-son link going for it. He shows great hands catching passes from Drew Collins and Myers calls him the leader of the secondary. Matt McDonald was Orchard View’s head football coach for the Cardinals’ lone state championship during the 14-0 season in 2004.

The NHL is embarking on a free agent period like never before in hockey history. A handful of the top free agents are still available, but NHL teams aren't waiting for those big fish to sign to make other moves. Koivu signed for $1.5 million for next season, and they need to re-up top center Pierre-Luc Dubois and other restricted free agents. Teams have to move money, and in order to move money, they might have to move some really good players.”Some good free agents found new homes Saturday. The Buffalo Sabres signed center Cody Eakin to a $4.5 million, two-year contract, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state, epicenter of Americas coronavirus crisis, set another single-day record of COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, as veteran doctors and nurses voiced astonishment at the speed with which patients were deteriorating and dying. New York state accounts for over a third of the U.S. total. A woman is loaded into an ambulance by paramedics in the Harlem neighbourhood of Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID19) in New York City, New York, U.S., April 8, 2020. New York City officials said a recent surge in people dying at home suggests the most populous U.S. city may be undercounting the loss of life. So far New York Citys announced death toll has reflected only laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 diagnoses, mostly at hospitals.

A general view of the exterior of Columbia University Medical Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital on February 23, 2012 in New York City. New YorkPresbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Manhattan is on the front lines of the coronavirus epidemic in New York City. Officials and epidemiologists tracking the spread of the virus warn that this week could be among the most deadly yet in New York City. The university's models, as of Monday morning, predict that New York state will reach peak resource use on Wednesday, April 8. That model predicts New York state will fall short by roughly 12,400 hospital beds of what will be demanded and fall nearly 6,000 intensive care beds short.

It has killed at least 281 people over a few weeks in New York City, which is struggling with one of the largest caseloads in the world at nearly 22,000 confirmed cases. A tool of last resort that involves threading a tube down a patients windpipe, a mechanical ventilator can sustain a person who can no longer breathe unaided. At Columbia, Smith noted that they could not split a ventilator across just any two COVID-19 patients, but were only pairing patients with sufficiently similar respiratory needs. If one patients lungs were deteriorating faster, he said, it could cause imbalances in the closed system. One patient could starve for oxygen while the other patients lungs would get increased pressure.

People line up to get a test at Elmhurst Hospital due to coronavirus outbreak on March 24, 2020 in Queens, New York, United States. Hospitals in New York City now have more than 2,800 patients with the coronavirus, straining their existing capacity. A nurse at Columbia University Medical Center in upper Manhattan said several hundreds of patients there alone had the coronavirus. About 20% of the hospital's coronavirus patients are in intensive care units, according to Smith's letter. New York state has more than 30,800 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with more than 5,000 more cases reported Tuesday.

The Chinese consumers' expensive taste is driving growth of the luxury market and fueling a boom in luxury five-star hotels in cities across China. The survey found 100 million Chinese in the world's top 10% of richest people, while the United States has 99 million in the same bracket. CNBC recently visited five newly-opened 5-star hotels in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. St. Regis Hong Kong St. Regis Hong KongThe St Regis Hong KongThe entrance area of the newly opened The St. Regis Hong Kong provides an immediate sanctuary from the bustling sights and sounds of Hong Kong. Rosewood Hong Kong Rosewood Hong KongRosewood Hong Kong