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The Los Angeles Kings got exponentially better on Wednesday afternoon, landing the big fish of the NHL trade market in the form of former New York Rangers superstar forward Artemi Panarin. With the Blueshirts waving the white flag on the 2025-26 season — and holding the Russian out of the lineup after commiting to a […]

Brayden Point hasn’t played a game for the Tampa Bay Lightning since suffering a knee injury against the Philadelphia Flyers on Jan. 12. Although the star forward has been ruled out until the Olympic break, he is still a possibility to play for Team Canada in Italy — but the clock is ticking. As The […]

Although Florida Panthers forward Sam Bennett was originally snubbed by Team Canada for the Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina, the 29-year-old will indeed be joining the Canadians in Europe later this week. Bennett will replace Tampa Bay Lightning forward Anthony Cirelli, who was injured in the 2026 NHL Stadium Series at Raymond James Stadium on […]

The 2026 iteration of the NHL Stadium Series might be one of the best outdoor hockey games ever played. The Tampa Bay Lightning and Boston Bruins treated the sold out crowd at Raymond James Stadium to a tilt for the ages on Sunday night, with the Bolts overcoming a four-goal deficit to win 6-5 in […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning have been without their captain since early December, but all signs point to star defenseman Victor Hedman returning to the lineup for the 2026 NHL Stadium Series at Raymond James Stadium on Sunday evening. “Like I said before, playing in this game has been a big motivation in me coming back,” […]

The Ottawa Senators have been without starting goaltender Linus Ullmark since late December after he took a leave of absence for personal reasons — but the Swede will be back between the pipes on Saturday night against the visiting New Jersey Devils, as first reported by Sportsnet’s Alex Adams. The 32-year-old has been out of […]

Although the New Jersey Devils will be without Jack Hughes when they take on the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night, it could be the only game the superstar forward misses. Head coach Sheldon Keefe provided a huge update on the injured American after the morning skate in Canada’s capital city. “Evaluation yesterday confirmed good news […]

The Boston Bruins are headed outdoors this weekend, participating in the 2026 edition of the NHL Stadium Series against the Lightning in Tampa Bay on Sunday — the league’s 47th official outdoor game. The Bruins will be without two key players for the contest, as head coach Marco Sturm confirmed that both Elias Lindholm and […]

Gavin McKenna made waves last year when he left the Canadian Hockey League’s Medicine Hat Tigers to join Penn State and the Nittany Lions in the NCAA. The 18-year-old won a championship with the Tigers in the Western Hockey League in 2024-25, and made the move to college in his NHL Draft season. McKenna shared […]

The NHL trade market has been turned on its head after New York Rangers superstar Artemi Panarin was made available. There are no shortage of teams with varying levels of interest in the Russian ahead of the March 6 deadline — and the Washington Capitals are one of them, as Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported on […]

Connor McDavid and Macklin Celebrini will face off against each other for the first time this season when the San Jose Sharks visit Rogers Place to play the Edmonton Oilers in an all-Pacific Division clash on Thursday night. In just over a week, the two superstars will team up at the 2026 Winter Olympics in […]

The partnership between superstar forward Artemi Panarin and the New York Rangers is reaching its conclusion, with the Russian being held out of the lineup indefinitely ahead of an expected trade out of the Big Apple. Panarin is the best player on the Blueshirts’ roster, and has been since signing a massive seven-year, $81.50 million […]

The New York Islanders are in the midst of a terrific 2025-26 season, and general manager Mathieu Darche has rewarded the team for its strong play by bolstering the roster with the recent additions of Ondrej Palat and Carson Soucy. The Palat trade has paid immediate dividends, as the veteran forward scored a goal and […]

The Colorado Avalanche have been without Gabriel Landeskog since he suffered an upper-body injury in the first week of January — but the captain just took a big step toward his injury return. The Stanley Cup champion was on the ice in Toronto on Tuesday morning, as first reported by The Athletic’s Pierre LeBrun. It’s […]

The Minnesota Wild have gotten strong goaltending from the Swedish tandem of Filip Gustavsson and Jesper Wallstedt in 2025-26, and the pair will both represent their country at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan next month. Wallstedt has graduated from a top prospect into a legitimate starting goalie in the National Hockey League, but his […]

For the first time in the 22-year history of National Hockey League outdoor games, the festivities will take over Raymond James Stadium in the Sunshine State this Sunday. Exactly 30 days after the New York Rangers shellacked the Florida Panthers in Miami, the surging Tampa Bay Lightning and Boston Bruins will do battle in the […]

The Vancouver Canucks have fully committed to the rebuild after trading franchise cornerstone Quinn Hughes and subsequently losing 14 of 20 games to fall to dead last in National Hockey League standings. It’s expected that there will be a mass exodus out of British Columbia ahead of the March 6 NHL Trade Deadline as the […]

New York Islanders star forward Bo Horvat hasn’t played since New Year’s Day after suffering an upper-body injury in a 7-2 loss to the Utah Mammoth at UBS Arena. Following a nine-game absence, the veteran will return to the lineup against the red hot Buffalo Sabres on Saturday afternoon, he confirmed at Friday’s practice. “I […]

Darcy Kuemper suffered a neck injury in a 4-3 Los Angeles Kings victory over the New York Rangers on Tuesday night at Crypto.com Arena, leaving the game after making six saves on eight shots. The veteran — who is one of three goaltenders on Team Canada’s roster for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan — […]

The Pittsburgh Penguins hung six goals on their old goalie on Thursday night, beating Tristan Jarry and the Edmonton Oilers 6-2 at Rogers Place in Alberta. It’s the final time Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby will play as opponents before the pair of superstar forwards lead Team Canada into the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan […]

The San Jose Sharks signalled that they’re eyeing a berth in the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs after acquiring top pending UFA Kiefer Sherwood from the Vancouver Canucks earlier this week. Although player and club reportedly have a sizeable gap to bridge in contract extension talks, he should be an effective piece for the team down […]

The New York Rangers are going to be a top team to watch ahead of the March 6 NHL Trade Deadline after general manager Chris Drury virtually waved the white flag on the 2025-26 season in the form of a retool letter to fans. Regardless of how the news was received, the winds of change […]

The Toronto Maple Leafs had just begun to turn their season around, winning eight of 10 games from mid-December to mid-January to return to relevance in the Eastern Conference. But Craig Berube’s team has begun to struggle again in the New Year, dropping four of five. A slew of injuries has played a key role […]

One of the most highly-anticipated trades of the 2025-26 NHL season got over the finish line on Sunday, with Rasmus Andersson being shipped to the first place he was ever linked to — the Vegas Golden Knights. The Swedish defenseman has been a heart and soul player for the Calgary Flames since being selected by […]

It’s seemed likely all season long that the Calgary Flames would eventually trade star defenseman Rasmus Andersson in the final year of his contract — and it looks like that time is coming. The Athletic’s Pierre LeBrun reported on Friday that talks have intensified over the last several days, and a potential deal getting the […]

The Carolina Hurricanes didn’t hold back against a shorthanded Florida Panthers team on Friday night, demolishing the back-to-back defending Stanley Cup champions 9-1 at the Lenovo Center in Raleigh. Nikolaj Ehlers was right in the middle of it, scoring his sixth career National Hockey League hat trick — and first as a member of the […]

The Philadelphia Flyers are mired in their longest losing streak of the 2025-26 campaign, dropping five consecutive contests — four of them in regulation — to fall out of a playoff spot in a crowded Eastern Conference. Rick Tocchet’s club lost the Battle of Pennsylvania for the second time in three tries against the Pittsburgh […]

The Washington Capitals have not been able to replicate the success that saw the franchise finish with the best record in the Eastern Conference in 2024-25. Despite a similar roster, the Caps are 24-18-6 this NHL season, which has them on the outside looking in at a postseason berth. Spencer Carbery’s team didn’t do itself […]

Uvis Balinskis has stepped up on the Florida Panthers’ blue line amid a slew of injuries in 2025-26 — and he was rewarded for it on Friday. Player and club agreed to a two-year, $1.75 million contract extension that will keep the Latvian defenseman in town through the end of the 2027-28 campaign. The pact […]

Calgary Flames defenseman Rasmus Andersson has seen his name swirling in trade rumors for most of the last year — and it looks like a change of scenery could finally be coming for the Swede. As The Fourth Period’s David Pagnotta reported earlier this week, Flames general manager Craig Conroy has been receiving more frequent […]

The St. Louis Blues continue to struggle in 2025-26, and things are going to get even more difficult without the services of one of their top players for the next couple of weeks. Robert Thomas was placed on injured reserve with a lower-body injury on Thursday, president of hockey operations and general manager Doug Armstrong […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning have won an NHL-best 11 games in a row, which is even more impressive considering top defenseman Victor Hedman has been out of the lineup and on injured reserve since Dec. 11. As the team continues to surge — now sitting 29-13-3 and first place in the Eastern Conference — head […]

Alexandre Texier has looked like a completely different player since leaving the St. Louis Blues and joining the Montreal Canadiens — and he was rewarded for it on Wednesday. Texier signed a two-year, $5 million contract extension with the Habs, which was first announced by his agent Dan Milstein and later confirmed by general manager […]

Andrew Mangiapane inked a two-year deal with the Edmonton Oilers over the summer, joining the back-to-back defending Western Conference champions as he seeks a first career Stanley Cup. But it doesn’t look like that goal is going to come to fruition for the 29-year-old, who has struggled mightily in Alberta in 2025-26. Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman […]

The 2025-26 season has gone from bad to worse for the New Jersey Devils, who missed out on the Quinn Hughes sweepstakes and have now lost eight of their last 11 games, falling to sixth place in the Metropolitan Division in the process. It’s been a different story for the Toronto Maple Leafs, who are […]

It’s been a nightmare campaign for the Vancouver Canucks in 2025-26, who currently sit 16-24-5 and dead last in NHL standings after a 6-3 loss to the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre on Monday night. The day before the game, general manager Patrik Allvin admitted to Canucks writer Chris Faber that the team is […]

When the Buffalo Sabres fired general manager Kevyn Adams in the middle of December, sitting 14-14-4 and at the bottom of the NHL’s Eastern Conference, it looked like yet another postseason-less spring awaited in Western New York. But fast forward four weeks — and a ridiculous 13 wins in 14 games — and the Sabres […]

Anthony Stolarz hasn’t played a game with the Toronto Maple Leafs since suffering an injury during a 5-3 loss to the Boston Bruins on November 11. Although his absence continues to stretch on much longer than originally anticipated, head coach Craig Berube provided a positive update on the injured netminder ahead of a Hockey Night […]

The Montreal Canadiens have been one of the National Hockey League’s busier teams on the trade market over the last seven months, acquiring Noah Dobson, Zack Bolduc and Phillip Danault since June of 2025. After reuniting with Danault shortly before the league holiday roster freeze in the middle of December — and giving up a […]