SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lost forward Eetu Luostarinen to a game misconduct penalty after he sent Carolina's Jackson Blake into the boards late in the first period of Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals.
Luostarinen was assessed a 5-minute major for boarding, which held up after video review, and the misconduct. Blake remained on the ice behind the goal line for about a minute, getting tended to by Hurricanes' personnel, and then went to the locker room for evaluation.
Both appeared to be giving chase to the puck deep in the zone when they got tangled, and Luostarinen's momentum wound up driving Blake into the boards. The top of Blake's helmet appeared to hit near the top of the boards, along the bottom of the plexiglass.
Blake was back on the ice to start the second period for the Hurricanes.
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Florida Panthers' Eetu Luostarinen (27) looses control of the puck skating between Carolina Hurricanes' Sean Walker (26) and goaltender Frederik Andersen (31) during the first period of Game 2 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Eastern Conference finals in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker)
A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh, local officials said Sunday.
A young woman died overnight in a hospital intensive care unit after debris from a drone fell on a house during the attack on Saturday, regional Gov. Alexander Gusev said on Telegram.
Three other people were wounded and more than 10 apartment buildings, private houses and a high school were damaged, he said, adding that air defenses shot down 17 drones over Voronezh. The city is home to just over 1 million people and lies some 250 kilometers (155 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
The attack came the day after Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles overnight into Friday, killing at least four people in the capital Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials.
For only the second time in the nearly four-year war, Russia used a powerful new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine in a clear warning to Kyiv and NATO.
The intense barrage and the launch of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile followed reports of major progress in talks between Ukraine and its allies on how to defend the country from further aggression by Moscow if a U.S.-led peace deal is struck.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday in his nightly address that Ukrainian negotiators “continue to communicate with the American side.”
Chief negotiator Rustem Umerov was in contact with U.S. partners Saturday, he said.
Separately, Ukraine’s General Staff said Russia targeted Ukraine with 154 drones overnight into Sunday and 125 were shot down.
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This photo provided by the Ukrainian Security Service on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, shows a fragment believed to be a part of a Russian Oreshnik intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missile that hit the Lviv region. (Ukrainian Security Service via AP)
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second left, listens to British Defense Secretary John Healey during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk)
