Veteran forward Kyle Chipchura is resuming his hockey career in the Kontinental Hockey League.

Chipchura, who played for three NHL teams during his nine-year career, signed a one-year contract to play for HC Slovan Bratislava on Monday.

The 30-year-old is the second player from the Arizona Coyotes to head to the KHL in as many days, as Viktor Tikhonov agreed to terms with SKA St. Petersburg on Sunday.

Chipchura collected four goals, eight assists and 38 penalty minutes in 70 games with the Arizona Coyotes last season.

The 18th overall pick of the 2004 draft, Chipchura scored 31 goals, set up 73 others and had 376 penalty minutes in 482 career games with the Montreal Canadiens, Anaheim Ducks and Coyotes.

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Veteran forward Kyle Chipchura is resuming his hockey career in the Kontinental Hockey League.

Chipchura, who played for three NHL teams during his nine-year career, signed a one-year contract to play for HC Slovan Bratislava on Monday.

The 30-year-old is the second player from the Arizona Coyotes to head to the KHL in as many days, as Viktor Tikhonov agreed to terms with SKA St. Petersburg on Sunday.

Chipchura collected four goals, eight assists and 38 penalty minutes in 70 games with the Arizona Coyotes last season.

The 18th overall pick of the 2004 draft, Chipchura scored 31 goals, set up 73 others and had 376 penalty minutes in 482 career games with the Montreal Canadiens, Anaheim Ducks and Coyotes.

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LAWRENCE, Mass. - Former Boston Bruins star Ray Bourque is expected to appear in a Massachusetts court to try to resolve a drunken driving charge.

A spokeswoman for Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett confirmed that the office has been advised that Bourque will be in Lawrence District Court on Wednesday to try to resolve the case.

Bourque pleaded not guilty last week to operating under the influence of alcohol after his Mercedes-Benz rear-ended a minivan in Andover on June 24. No one was hurt.

Police said Bourque had a blood-alcohol level of 0.249, three times the state's legal limit to drive.

Bourque said in a statement last week: ''I am not happy about the situation I put myself into.''

He retired from the NHL in 2001 after helping the Colorado Avalanche win the Stanley Cup.

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Brad Treliving saw the rules for the expansion draft and immediately was in an advantageous position. The Calgary Flames' general manager needed a goaltender, and with Las Vegas set to harvest the NHL for two of them in a year, his colleagues had incentive to make a move.

The Flames got Brian Elliott from the St. Louis Blues for a second-round pick.

A full year before the Las Vegas expansion draft, GMs must plan for the inevitability of losing a player to a team that the league wants to be good out of the gate. Already the impact of the impending expansion draft has been felt with the Flames acquiring Elliott and the Toronto Maple Leafs getting goalie Frederik Andersen from the Anaheim Ducks.

The Ducks knew they wouldn't be able to keep Andersen and John Gibson forever, and the expansion draft expedited a move.

''After starting to hear what the expansion rules could be, you just knew you weren't going to be signing both of them,'' GM Bob Murray said. ''You're going to come out looking pretty stupid if you did that.''

No one wants to look stupid, and that's the challenge over the next 12 months.

Teams will only be able to protect one goalie, so the Tampa Bay Lightning will likely have to trade Ben Bishop and the Stanley Cup-champion Pittsburgh Penguins have to decide what to do with Marc-Andre Fleury before the yet-to-be-named Las Vegas team picks its first 30 players on June 20, 2017.

With the unrestricted free agent market opening Friday and trade winds gusting, teams have to consider the expansion draft as part of their offseason maneuvers.

''Everything will be affected by that,'' Columbus Blue Jackets GM Jarmo Kekalainen said. ''In every decision, we'll have to take into consideration what the rules are and how that might affect our outlook for the expansion draft and ahead of that.''

Each team will be able to protect seven forwards, three defensemen and one goaltender or eight skaters and one goaltender. Any player with a no-movement clause in his contract must be protected, and each team will lose one player.

Players with bloated contracts or who are past their prime will be exposed, but teams could take a serious hit because young and cheap talent will be plentiful.

That's a danger for a team like the Chicago Blackhawks, who have won the Stanley Cup three times in seven years but are locked into long-term deals with their core players. GM Stan Bowman, who has taken Chicago from the brink of cap purgatory back to the Cup, isn't worried about losing someone.

''I think sometimes you can get too worked up about it,'' Bowman said. ''It's a little bit early to be making moves strictly for an expansion draft that's going to happen in about 12 months from now.''

Win-now teams shouldn't get worked up. Penguins GM Jim Rutherford plans to keep Fleury and Cup-winning goalie Matt Murray for now and worry about it later, and making moves for the future alone won't help anyone capture a title next season.

''It's tough to take a player you like out of your lineup right now before the season starts, especially if you want to compete for a championship,'' Washington Capitals GM Brian MacLellan said. ''You try and find that perfect situation where you're protected in an expansion draft.''

Expect some movement once teams have a grip on which players they might protect or have in danger of exposing for the NHL's Las Vegas venture. The Blackhawks have eight players with no-move clauses and the Blue Jackets six, which could necessitate buyouts this week or deals over the next year.

''Nobody could really prepare before they knew what the rules were,'' Kekalainen said. ''Some teams are in better positions just by accident or by luck or whatever.''

Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli, who can relax with Connor McDavid exempt because he'll only have two years of pro experience, said teams will have to think differently if they face the potential of losing a significant player. No doubt that's a reality for some, but Treliving doesn't see that flooding the market.

''That idea that now that there's expansion everybody's going to be dying to just give you players, that's not quite the case,'' Treliving said. ''There is obviously a knowledge of what may happen, so people are trying to see if they can be aggressive or if that's going to be something in a year.''

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BUFFALO, N.Y. - The Arizona Coyotes have selected a site for their new arena but aren't ready to announce its location.

Speaking before the NHL draft on Friday, Coyotes President and CEO Anthony LeBlanc said the team has a deal in place, but attorneys are still working out the details.

LeBlanc said the arena will likely be financed with public and private funds, but the team will cover more than 50 percent. The Coyotes have a one-year lease to play at Gila River Arena in Glendale next season, and the team is working with AEG, which operates the arena, to add a two-year extension before moving.

The Coyotes have looked at numerous sites for a new arena, including downtown Phoenix, near Arizona State's campus in Tempe and Scottsdale

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PITTSBURGH - A huge turnout is expected in downtown Pittsburgh for the 2016 Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins victory parade.

A parade after the team's last Stanley Cup championship in 2009 drew nearly 400,000 people.

The parade will begin at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, seven years ago to the day that the last one was held.

Players and coaches are expected to be driven along a triangular route to a temporary stage, where other dignitaries will join them for remarks and festivities.

The team was founded as an expansion franchise in 1967, and also won the Stanley Cup in 1991 and 1992.

The Penguins clinched the championship with a 3-1 victory Sunday night against the San Jose Sharks, winning the best-of-seven series 4-2.

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PITTSBURGH (AP) - Martin Jones stopped everything.

The seemingly endless barrage of shots the Pittsburgh Penguins threw his way. Pittsburgh's long-awaited house party more than five decades in the making and - most importantly - his team's breakthrough season from serving as mere fodder to a coronation for Sidney Crosby and company.

The San Jose Sharks goaltender made 44 saves, including all 31 over the final two periods in a 4-2 victory in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final on Thursday night. Outplayed but not outscored, San Jose will host Game 6 on Sunday after jumping on Pittsburgh rookie Matt Murray early and holding on behind the spectacular Jones late.

''This team hasn't quit all year and we're not going to start now,'' Jones said. ''We still have a long way to go. It's still an uphill battle.''

Logan Couture had a goal and two assists in the first period for the Sharks. Brent Burns, Melker Karlsson and captain Joe Pavelski also scored for San Jose, which was outshot 46-22 but held firm after surviving a chaotic opening five minutes and playing capably after getting the lead in regulation for the first time in the series.

Evgeni Malkin and Carl Hagelin scored for Pittsburgh but the 22-year-old Murray, whose postseason play helped fuel Pittsburgh's return to the final after a seven-year break, faltered early and his high-profile teammates struggled to get to Jones.

San Jose coach Peter DeBoer preached patience with his team in a hole only one club in NHL history has climbed out of to raise the Cup. He pointed to the Sharks' own first-round collapse two years ago against Los Angeles - when a three-game lead became a 4-3 loss that took an entire season to get over - as proof of how quickly the tenor of a series can change.

The Penguins stressed the final step in the long slog from the tumult of December - when Mike Johnston was fired and replaced with Sullivan with the team languishing on the fringe of the playoff picture - would be the most difficult. Yet the prospect of celebrating the first title captured within the city limits in 56 years sent thousands into the streets around Consol Energy Center and ticket were going for more than $1,000.

Things were no different inside, with the largest crowd in the arena's brief history - a group that included Pirates Hall of Famer Bill Mazeroski, whose epic ninth-inning blast in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series at Forbes Field marked the last time a championship season ended in Pittsburgh - in a frenzy from the opening faceoff.

It took all of 64 seconds for the Sharks to quiet them and 2:53 to leave them stunned. Burns' first goal of the final, a wrist shot from the circle that didn't look unlike Joonas Donskoi's overtime winner in Game 3, put San Jose in front in regulation for the first time in the series. Couture doubled San Jose's advantage less than two minutes later with a redirect in front of the net.

The momentum evaporated nearly as quickly as it appeared. Malkin scored on the power play 4:44 into the first and Hagelin followed 22 seconds later to tie it, the fastest opening four-goal sequence in the history of the final.

Things settled down - at least a little - until Karlsson's shot from in front with just under five minutes left in the first, set up by a pretty backhand feed from Couture.

The advantage set the stage for Jones, who spent a large portion of the second period fending off one odd-man rush after another as Pittsburgh's relentless speed pinned the Sharks in their end for long stretches. Yet the goalie who watched as a backup behind Los Angeles star Jonathan Quick two years ago as the Kings roared back to stun San Jose on their way to a championship gave the Sharks the spark they needed to extend their season for at least three more days and keeping its slim hopes of raising the Cup alive.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. - His European hockey apprenticeship over, Auston Matthews is back on North American soil and turning his attention on beginning his NHL career.

From Matthews' home in Scottsdale, Arizona, to playing pro in Switzerland and last month's world championships in Russia, the 18-year-old forward arrived in Buffalo this week to participate in the league's annual pre-draft combine. It's the final step for Matthews, who in three weeks will be back for the NHL draft in Buffalo, where he is projected to be selected first overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs.

''A lot of adventures, but it's nice to be back home,'' Matthews said Friday, standing in front of a large crowd of reporters - many of them from Toronto.

''Whatever happens, happens. It's out of your control now. Our season's over,'' Matthews said about whether he'll become the first American-born player drafted since 2007, when Chicago selected Buffalo-born forward Patrick Kane. ''We have the testing tomorrow and that's really the last time besides meetings that you can really make an impression on teams.''

Matthews has made his mark despite making the unusual move of playing for Zurich last season.

Finishing second in the league's MVP voting, he led the Lions and finished 10th in the league with 24 goals, while adding 22 assists in 36 games. Despite a two-month layoff after Zurich was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs in March, Matthews led the United States with six goals, while adding three assists at the world championships.

''He lived up to expectations,'' NHL Central Scouting director Dan Marr said about the 6-foot-2, 194-pound Matthews. ''No one was going to say it would happen, that he would be one of the best players in the (Swiss) league, one of the top scorers in the league. That certainly wasn't expected. It wouldn't be of any 18 year old. But he went over there and had success.''

Central Scouting ranks Finnish-born forwards Patrik Laine and Jesse Puljujarvi second and third.

What separates Matthews is his play-making ability and speed, leading Marr to describe him as ''the complete package.''

Matthews' performance at the world championships convinced Team North America general manager Peter Chiarelli to make him one of the final seven players chosen to the squad's 23-player World Cup of Hockey roster last week.

''We couldn't ignore it,'' Chiarelli said. ''For me, he was the best if not one of the top two or three on that U.S. team.''

Matthews' decision to play overseas was prompted because he was too old to play for the U.S. Developmental team and too young - by two days - to be eligible for last year's draft because of his Sept. 17 birthday.

Rather than spend a season playing in college or at the Canadian junior level, Matthews and his agent Pat Brisson, decided it would be best to develop his game in Zurich. Another benefit was the Lions were headed by Marc Crawford, who coached the 1996-Stanley Cup-winning Colorado Avalanche.

''We flew him and his parents over to explore and he was sold on it immediately,'' Brisson said. ''We wanted him in the right environment and felt the Swiss league was better than college or the CHL.''

Matthews has no regrets of just missing out on being part of last year's draft, where Marr said he would have drawn comparisons to the top two players selected, Edmonton's Connor McDavid and Buffalo's Jack Eichel.

''When I was born, you can't change that,'' Matthews said. ''I think it's nice to get that extra year to grow into your body some more and develop a little bit more.''

Growing up an Arizona Coyotes fan, Matthews has no difficulty accepting the pressure that would come playing in a hockey mecca such as Toronto. It's where coach Mike Babcock and general manager Lou Lamoriello are in the midst of rebuilding a once-proud franchise that has made the playoffs just once in the past 11 years.

The Leafs met with Matthews this week, but have yet to tip their hand regarding who they'll draft first.

''If that were to happen, I definitely think I can handle that. I think I'm physically and mentally strong,'' Matthews said of playing in Toronto. ''I want to be an impact player in the NHL. For whatever team, I can see myself being that player.''

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PITTSBURGH - Nick Bonino's main job for the Pittsburgh Penguins is to get to the front of the net and create chaos. The well-bearded forward executed perfectly in his debut in the Stanley Cup Final.

Bonino took a pretty feed from the corner by Kris Letang and beat Martin Jones from in close with 2:33 remaining to lift the Penguins to a 3-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks in Game 1 on Monday night.

Rookies Bryan Rust and Conor Sheary staked Pittsburgh to an early two-goal lead before the Sharks tied it in the second period on goals by Tomas Hertl and Patrick Marleau. The Penguins responded by upping the pressure in the final period and it paid off with Bonino's fourth goal of the playoffs after he darted to the San Jose net in time to knuckle Letang's pass by Jones for the winner.

Game 2 is Wednesday night in Pittsburgh.

Matt Murray finished with 24 saves for Pittsburgh, which began its bid for the fourth title in franchise history by peppering Jones constantly in the first and final periods. Jones made 38 stops but couldn't get his blocker on Bonino's wrist shot. The Penguins threw 41 shots at Jones, well over the 28 he faced on average during San Jose's playoff run.

The Sharks made it to the first Stanley Cup Final in franchise history by rebuilding themselves on the fly. Two years removed from a brutal collapse from a 3-0 series lead in the first round against Los Angeles, San Jose ended a 9,005 day wait to play in the NHL's championship round by relying on a tough, aggressive style that squeezes opponents with a relentless forecheck while limiting chances in front of Jones.

Yet veterans Marleau and Joe Thornton - the top two picks in the 1997 draft held in Pittsburgh who had waited nearly two decades to make it to the league's biggest stage - insisted the Sharks were hardly satisfied after dispatching St. Louis in a cathartic Western Conference finals.

Maybe, but the Sharks looked a step slow - maybe two steps slow - while searching for their footing against the Penguins, who rallied from a 3-2 deficit to edge the Tampa Bay Lightning in seven games to advance to their first Cup Final since 2009.

Rust, who surprisingly made the team out of training camp and became an unlikely playoff star by scoring both of Pittsburgh's goals in Game 7 against the Lightning, gave the Penguins the lead 12:46 into the first when he slammed home a rebound off a Justin Schultz shot for his sixth of the postseason, a franchise record for playoff goals by a rookie.

Less than a minute later Sheary, who didn't become a regular until the middle of January, made it 2-0 when Sidney Crosby whipped a blind backhand cross-ice pass to Sheary's stick. The rookie's wrist shot from the right circle zipped by Jones and the Penguins appeared to be in complete command by overwhelming the Sharks in a way few have in months.

San Jose and its group of Cup newcomers regained its composure in the intermission and responded with a big surge. Hertl jammed a shot from just outside the crease between Murray's legs on the power play 3:02 into the second to give the Sharks momentum. Late in the second, Marleau collected a rebound off a Brent Burns one-timer behind the Pittsburgh net and then beat Murray on a wraparound to the far post that caromed off Murray's extended right leg and into the net.

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It was not the greatest week for Nyquist - horse or hockey player.

A few days after Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist was declared out of the Belmont Stakes due to a fever, Red Wings forward Gustav Nyquist was not chosen by Sweden on Friday to play in the World Cup of Hockey.

Nyquist was named for the Detroit player by the colt's owner, J. Paul Reddam, a Red Wings fan who grew up across the border in Windsor, Ontario.

Nyquist finished third in the Preakness on May 21, ending any chance for a Triple Crown the year following American Pharoah's first sweep of the Derby, Preakness and Belmont since 1978.

He developed a fever and an elevated white blood cell count earlier this week, but was recovering well at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Trainer Doug O'Neill says he's hoping Nyquist can be shipped home to Santa Anita on June 5.

Nyquist, the hockey player, recently returned from playing for his country in the ice hockey world championships in Russia.

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