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Patrick Kane wins the #ESPY for Best NHL Player. He wins over Andrei Vasilevskiy, Auston Matthews, and Connor McDavid. #Blackhawks— Bleacher Nation Blackhawks (@BN_Blackhawks) July 11, 2021 Kane beat Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews, Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy and Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid. The right wing scored a milestone 400th goal in a rivalry win against the Detroit Red Wings in February. Kane finished the 2020-21 season with 15 goals, 51 assists and 66 points. Jonathan Toews, who announced his plans of returning next season with the Hawks, won the same ESPY award in 2015. Kane was nominated for the ESPY back-to-back in 2016 and 2017. The 32-year-old has won three Stanley Cups with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2010, 2013 and 2015 and also won the Conn Smythe Trophy in 2013 as the most valuable player of the playoffs. Kane also won the Hart Memorial Trophy as Most Valuable Player and Art Ross Trophy as scoring champion in the 2015-16 season. Comcast SportsNet.com LOADED: 07.12.2021 1217193 Chicago Blackhawks Hawks reportedly working on Duncan Keith trade to Oilers BY STEPHANIE STREMPLEWSKI A Duncan Keith trade may be happening sooner than fans think. In late June, the Chicago Blackhawks were reportedly working on a trade that would send Keith to a team in the Pacific Northwest or western Canada. Now, it seems that the Edmonton Oilers are interested in making a deal for the defenseman. The Oilers and the Hawks have been "grinding away" on a Keith trade for almost two weeks, per a report from Elliotte Friedman. It's believed that the Hawks are interested in trading Keith for defenseman Ethan Bear and/or center Ryan McLeod, but the Oilers have declined. The future Hall of Famer currently has two years left on a 13-year contract extension he signed with the Hawks in Dec. 2009. Keith was drafted in 2002 by the Chicago Blackhawks in the second round of the NHL Draft and has played all 16 years of his NHL career with the Hawks. He won three Stanley Cups and has added a Norris Trophy and Conn Smythe Trophy to his name. Keith's 1,192 games rank second in franchise history behind Stan Mikita, who played in 1,394 games. Keith and Brent Seabrook are the first pair of defenseman to play 1,000 games together. In 2010 and 2014, Keith won Olympic Gold Medals for Team Canada. Comcast SportsNet.com LOADED: 07.12.2021 1217194 Colorado Avalanche percentage. The Avs don’t snatch the Presidents’ Trophy without him. And yet … Game 6. Philipp Grubauer says he “wants to be” back with the Avs. But is that a Expletive, expletive Game 6. good thing? After standing on his head for months, Grubi got knocked on his keister by the Golden Knights in the heat of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Vegas By SEAN KEELER | PUBLISHED: July 11, 2021 at 7:52 p.m. | popped him for five goals on 35 shots in Game 4, then five more on just UPDATED: July 11, 2021 at 8:50 p.m. 22 attempts in the series clincher. “We need to find a way to be ready and bring it every shift,” Grubauer said. “The experience I had in Washington — to win it and go all the way, McGregor Square gave Philipp Grubauer the Justin Bieber treatment, the you need to (bring it) every shift, every second, every game as a team. sweetest of screams. The ladies on the balconies several floors up, once And you can’t have too many big mistakes. If they want to win a game 1- they’d spotted him, wouldn’t stop shouting his name. 0 or 2-1, that’s good, too.” GRUUUUUU-BAUER! The NHL vista comes into focus in a few weeks, once the expansion draft rolls in on July 21 and free agency gets underway on the 28th. The Avs When the pop culture gods plop you on a terrace with Broncos icon Von have around $23-25 million in cap room to play with and need to figure Miller, dancer JoJo Siwa, actor Anthony Mackie and rapper Quavo and out how to make the math work for defenseman Cale Makar (restricted you’re the one getting the sunshine serenade … that’s saying something. free agent), captain Gabe Landeskog (unrestricted) and forward Brandon GRUUUUUU-BAUER! Saad (unrestricted). OK, then, Grubi, what say you? Sticking around? Are the Avalanche your When decimals get crunched, egos wind up bruised. The Nuggets were top choice on the open market? playing with house money the minute Jamal Murray’s knee popped. The Avs were supposed to have us figuring out how to work a victory parade “One-hundred percent,” the Avs goaltender and unrestricted free agent around All-Star Game weekend. offered Sunday, in between practice hacks for the Major League Baseball All-Star Celebrity Softball Game. “One-hundred percent.” Instead, we’re wondering what the crease looks like without Grubauer, who carried a $3.33 million cap hit last season. We’re wondering what GRUUUUUU-BAUER! Tuukka Rask looks like in burgundy. “I think we have an incredible team next year, too,” Grubi continued. “As a team, I think, we (can) be proud of what we accomplished “(General manager) Joe (Sakic) and (Assistant general manager Chris regardless,” Grubauer said. “Obviously, the President’s Trophy isn’t the MacFarland), they always do a great job putting a team together that’s trophy you want to walk home with. We want the Stanley Cup. performing at a high level and playing in the playoffs. And I want to be a part of that.” “We’ve climbed the ladder over the last couple of years, and obviously, I’ve been saying it, in Washington, it took five-six years to get there. GRUUUUUU-BAUER! Tampa, it took five-six years to get there. Tampa lost in the first round (in 2019 and) and they actually won it the next year. So I think there’s the “Everything is uncertain right now, every team is waiting for the experience that you have to take with you along the way and grow from expansion draft,” the Avs’ netminder stressed. “I would love to stay in that.” Denver. Denver has become home. I love the team, love the organization. So it would be nice to work something out.” Grubi isn’t the root of the problem. The trick is figuring out whether or not he’s part of the solution. But if you’re still asking the same question three Keeler: Jerry Jeudy’s talent was wasted by Broncos last year. Until years later, you probably already know the answer. something changes inside that quarterback room, they’ll waste it again. Denver Post: LOADED: 07.12.2021 Keeler: Shohei Ohtani is best thing to happen to baseball in years. He’ll be best thing to happen to Coors Field since Nolan Arenado left.