London Knights goaltender Austin Elliott has a ticket to an NHL training camp this fall.

Following his 31-save performance in the Memorial Cup Final to help the Knights win their third championship, the OHL announced that Elliott, who just finished his fifth season of junior hockey, earned a spot at Toronto Maple Leafs training camp in September.

"London Knights goaltender Austin Elliott has been a key difference maker this season," the OHL posted to X on Sunday night, "and he earned a free-agent invite to the Maple Leafs training camp this off-season!"

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Elliott finished his junior career with the best season to date after joining OHL London after four seasons with the WHL's Saskatoon Blades. The 21-year-old netminder has a record of 52-3-0 with the Knights.

His three losses came at different points this year: one in the regular season, one in the OHL playoffs, and one in the Memorial Cup.

Elliott was the top goaltender in the OHL this season, with a .924 save percentage in 33 games. Although he went 16-1 in the league's playoffs, his save percentage dipped to .906 through 17 games. However, the Strathmore, Alberta, native returned to form in the Memorial Cup, allowing eight goals in five games and finishing the tournament with a .943 save percentage.

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The University of Massachusetts Lowell commit was named an all-star at the tournament and was awarded the top goaltender honor after stopping 31 of 32 shots in London's Memorial Cup win over the WHL's Medicine Hat Tigers.

Three players from London's championship-winning team are set to participate in Toronto's training camp. Joining Elliott is Toronto's 2023 first-round (28th overall) pick, Easton Cowan, who led all OHL players in playoff points, and forward Landon Sim, who signed a one-year AHL contract with the Toronto Marlies in May.

Elliott participated in Maple Leafs development camp in the summer of 2023.

Cowan will push for a spot on Toronto's NHL roster following a standout season. Sim, who scored 12 goals and three assists for 15 points in 17 OHL playoff games, will look to stand out and earn an AHL roster spot. Elliott will look to impress Toronto's management before beginning his college hockey career in Lowell, Massachusetts.

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Cowan can join the Marlies if he doesn't make the Maple Leafs out of camp. After losing former Toronto prospects Fraser Minten and Nikita Grebenkin at the NHL's trade deadline in March, the Marlies will be looking for scoring in the offseason.

You have to wonder if Cowan and Sim, teammates of nearly four seasons, can put together a strong debut season in pro hockey.

Photo credit: @LondonKnights / X

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Stars part ways with former Sharks coach Pete DeBoer after conference final loss originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

After three consecutive trips to the Western Conference Final, the Dallas Stars are parting ways with head coach Pete DeBoer.

General manager Jim Nill made the announcement Friday, saying DeBoer had been “relieved of his head coaching duties” and that the team would immediately begin its search for its next head coach.

“After careful consideration, we believe that a new voice is needed in our locker room to push us closer to our goal of winning the Stanley Cup,” Nill said. “We’d like to thank Pete for everything that he has helped our organization achieve over the past three seasons and wish him nothing but the best moving forward.”

DeBoer was questioned for days after he decided to bench goalie Jake Oettinger in Game 5 of the recently completed conference final against the Edmonton Oilers, which turned out to be DeBoer’s final game in charge.

“No one’s a bigger fan of Jake Oettinger than me, as a person or a goalie,” DeBoer said. “There’s one motive, and that’s how do we survive this and get it to a Game 6. And I have to live with those consequences. If it works, great, we’re in Edmonton tonight and you guys are telling me how awesome a move it was. And when it doesn’t, I’ve got to stand up here and do this, and I understand.”

DeBoer finishes his three-year tenure with the Stars with a 149-68-29 record in 246 regular-season games. DeBoer had a 29-27 record in 56 Stanley Cup Playoff games.

Though the Stars advanced to the conference final in three consecutive seasons, the team never advanced to the Stanley Cup Final.

DeBoer has been an NHL head coach since 2008 with previous stops including the Florida Panthers (2008-11), New Jersey Devils (2011-15), San Jose Sharks (2015-2019) and Vegas Golden Knights (2019-2022).

The opening game of the 2025 Stanley Cup Final was a fun and exciting affair that saw the hometown Edmonton Oilers pick up a comeback victory over the Florida Panthers.

Florida held a brief, two-goal lead early in the second period before allowing the Oilers to score once in the second, once in the third and then again in overtime to pick up the Game 1 victory and take an early lead in the best-of-seven series.

Now the Cats will look to achieve what they set out to do before the series began, and that’s head back to South Florida with a series split.

While they didn’t play their best game in Edmonton, Florida can still take solace in that they were leading for a decent amount of Game 1 and was one shot away from earning the opening victory for themselves.

The Panthers will certainly be looking for ways to sustain more offensive pressure and get more pucks on net.

They may have finished with 32 shots on goal during Game 1, but only eight of them came during the third period and overtime.

Once Florida began playing with a lead during the second period, their offense became much less consistent.

How they respond will be key.

In terms of the Panthers lineup, forward A.J. Greer remains day-to-day with a lower-body injury.

On a positive note for Florida, Greer skated on Thursday and remains a possibility to rejoin the lineup in Game 2.

We’ll have to wait and see if Panthers Head Coach Paul Maurice has any updates on Greer’s status following Florida’s morning skate on Friday at Rogers Place.

Here are the Panthers projected lines and pairings for Game 2 in Edmonton:

Evan Rodrigues – Sasha Barkov – Sam Reinhart

Carter Verhaeghe – Sam Bennett – Matthew Tkachuk

Eetu Luostarinen – Anton Lundell – Brad Marchand

A.J. Greer – Tomas Nosek – Jonah Gadjovich

Gus Forsling – Aaron Ekblad

Niko Mikkola – Seth Jones

Nate Schmidt – Dmitry Kulikov

Scratches: Mackie Samoskevich, Uvis Balinskis, Jesper Boqvist, Nico Sturm, Jaycob Megna

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Photo caption: Jun 4, 2025; Edmonton, Alberta, CAN; Edmonton Oilers right wing Corey Perry (90) blocks Florida Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky (72) in the third period in game one of the 2025 Stanley Cup Final at Rogers Place. (Perry Nelson-Imagn Images)