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The New Jersey Devils are shaping up to be a powerhouse in the Eastern Conference next season after adding Tyler Toffoli this offseason to an already potent forward core. Although a five-game loss to the Carolina Hurricanes in Round 2 was a disappointing pill to swallow in the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Devils overachieved […]

The New York Islanders were one of the teams to beat in the Eastern Conference in the early 2020s, advancing to two straight Eastern Conference Finals and losing to the eventual champion Tampa Bay Lightning in both of them. The Isles are not quite as good as they once were, but the team still has […]

Stephen A. Smith continued to stir the pot on Monday, making another bold claim regarding Buffalo Bills star wide receiver Stefon Diggs on First Take. “You got Stefon Diggs, this brother all world receiver but clearly wasn’t happy, he walked out, didn’t want to talk to nobody, then he came into training camp, they had […]

The Winnipeg Jets are keeping Logan Stanley around for another year, signing the depth defenseman to a one-year, $1 million contract, the team announced on Sunday. The 25-year-old has spent his entire career in Manitoba after being selected with the No. 18 overall selection in the 2016 NHL Draft. The hulking, 6-foot-7 D-man missed 40 […]

The clock is ticking on the Washington Capitals. The team has been a regular-season powerhouse since shortly after Alexander Ovechkin came into the league, and although they’ve struggled mightily in the postseason, a Stanley Cup championship in 2018 seemed to make all of the heartbreak worth it. But the team is aging, and the rebuild […]

Baltimore Orioles outfielder Aaron Hicks was out of the team’s lineup again on Friday night in Oakland after dealing with nagging back soreness. The 33-year-old has played in only one game for the O’s since returning on Monday from a three-week absence to heal a left hamstring strain. “It’s feeling all right,” Hicks said about […]

The show continues to go on for Michael Harris and the Atlanta Braves, who rolled to their third straight shutout win after blanking the San Francisco Giants 4-0 on Friday night. Harris recorded four hits in the first six innings of the contest, and ended up a home run shy of the cycle by grounding […]

The San Jose Sharks are adding two former Buffalo Sabres legends to their scouting department after hiring Ryan Miller and Thomas Vanek, GM Mike Grier announced on Friday. Miller will join the organization in a goaltending scouting and development role, while Vanek will join in an amateur scouting position based in Minnesota. Grier played alongside […]

Although Jonathan Toews made it clear that he is not retiring from the National Hockey League, the three-time Stanley Cup champion provided more clarity on the situation on Friday. Toews said he would not decide whether he would play in the league again until late in the upcoming regular season at the earliest. “I am […]

The NBA is launching an inquiry into the situation involving Philadelphia 76ers superstar James Harden and team president of basketball operations Daryl Morey, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Ramona Shelburne reported on Saturday. The league is reportedly attempting to understand whether Harden’s harsh comments indicated he would hold out his upcoming season — a violation of […]

The St. Louis Blues will be looking to bounce back in 2023-24 after missing the playoffs for the first time since 2018 last season. This is a far cry from the team that won the Stanley Cup nearly half a decade ago, with Vladimir Tarasenko, Alex Pietrangelo, Vince Dunn and Ivan Barbashev all moving on. […]

The New Jersey Devils have high expectations for the 2023-24 season, and general manager Tom Fitzgerald believes that the sport’s highest prize is an attainable goal. “The standard has been set, expectations have been set and now it’s go time,” Fitzgerald told NHL.com’s Mike G. Morreale this week. “Our goal is to play the best […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers won their 11th game in a row on Thursday night, outlasting the Milwaukee Brewers 1-0 behind Austin Barnes’ first home run of the 2023 season — and Nomar Garciaparra called it. “I’m going with Austin Barnes,” the former MLB shortstop said before the game. “I know he hasn’t had one, today […]

Major League Soccer might not yet be on the same level as Europe’s top leagues, but it is catching up — at least according to Lionel Messi. The global superstar spoke to media on Thursday for the first time since joining Inter Miami as a free agent back in July. “I think it has every […]

Julio Rodriguez has been nothing short of outstanding as the Seattle Mariners have climbed back into contention for an American League wild card spot — and he put on a show against the Kansas City Royals on Thursday afternoon. Rodriguez amassed five hits, including his 20th home run of the year, as the Mariners edged […]

The 2023 postseason expectations were sky high for the New York Rangers after acquiring Patrick Kane and Vladimir Tarasenko at the NHL Trade Deadline. After advancing to the Eastern Conference Final the year before and now equipped with an even better roster, it seemed that the Rangers had as good a chance as any East […]

The Carolina Hurricanes advanced to the Eastern Conference Final in the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs, and the team is arguably going to be even better next season after a few shrewd offseason moves. Canes GM Don Waddell signed sandpaper forward Michael Bunting and the best defenseman available on the free agent market in Dmitry Orlov […]

The Minnesota Wild are entering the 2023-24 season in a very uncertain spot. The squad as constructed on paper is good enough to make the playoffs, but the team hasn’t won a postseason round since 2015 — nearly a decade ago. Something needs to change for the State of Hockey in order to have postseason […]

After 12 seasons in the National Hockey League, Montreal Canadiens forward Paul Byron is hanging up the skates for good, according to La Presse’s Richard Labbe. The 34-year-old missed the entire 2022-23 season due to a hip injury. His four-year, $13.6 million contract signed back in September of 2018 expired over the summer. Habs GM […]

It’s no surprise to hockey fans that the Boston Bruins are going to look a lot different on opening night in 2023 than they did a year ago. The team has been absolutely gutted, most notably by the expected retirements of longtime faces of the franchise in Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci. Those two hanging […]

Just under two months after being arrested on a charge of driving under the influence, former West Virginia men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins is entering a 12-month diversion program, according to the Associated Press. Huggins resigned from the program just a day after the arrest, and will now enter the program to resolve the drunk […]

When Edwin Diaz underwent patellar tendon surgery to repair a torn patellar tendon in March of 2023, it seemed almost impossible that the star closer would pitch again this season. Although that’s still nowhere near confirmed, Diaz threw off a mound in the bullpen on Wednesday, manager Buck Showalter told reporters. “[Edwin] threw down in […]

Although the National Hockey League’s offseason is usually peak time for tracking unrestricted free agents, there are always some intriguing names in restricted free agency each summer. That was especially true in 2023, as this year’s class of restricted free agents was headlined by Alex DeBrincat, Troy Terry and Vince Dunn, among others. With NHL […]

Vegas Golden Knights superstar Mark Stone played through a fractured wrist in the Stanley Cup Final against the Florida Panthers — and incredibly scored a hat trick in Game 5 to help his team win its inaugural championship. Stone confirmed on the Pat McAfee Show this week that he “took a whack” to his left […]

It’s been a difficult decade for the Winnipeg Jets, who have had a glaring lack of playoff success since relocating from Atlanta at the beginning of the 2011-12 season. A 2018 Western Conference Final is the best result in Manitoba, which, like 2023, ended in a five-game loss to the Vegas Golden Knights. Although the […]

It’s been just a day since former Louisville basketball commit Trentyn Flowers announced his decision to leave the school and go pro in Australia — and the 18-year-old has already received death threats, his mother confirmed on Twitter on Monday night. I will tolerate a lot of things….fans can be unhappy with this decision, but […]

David Krejci has only been retired for 24 hours, and the former Boston Bruin has already shut down a potential career in coaching. The 37-year-old was made available to reporters on Tuesday morning, and made it clear that that is not a path he will consider anytime soon. “There’s no way I can do what […]

Umpire Angel Hernandez lost again in his racial discrimination lawsuit against Major League Baseball after the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2021 ruling that granted the league a summary judgment, according to the Associated Press. “Hernandez has failed to establish a statistically significant disparity between the promotion rates of white and minority […]

The Ottawa Senators have failed to advance to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in each of the last six National Hockey League seasons — but head coach DJ Smith thinks the team is competitive enough to knock on the door in 2023-24. The squad has made significant changes to the roster for the second straight season, […]

San Diego Padres starting pitcher Yu Darvish made history against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday night, becoming the all-time MLB strikeout leader among pitchers born in Japan. “With his 6th strikeout of the night, Yu Darvish brought his career total to 1,919,” tweeted ESPN Stats & Info. “That moved him past Hideo Nomo for the […]

With only six full NHL drafts under their belt, and boasting the title of 2023 Stanley Cup champions, it’s very fair that the Vegas Golden Knights have one of the weaker prospect pipelines in the league. But with a championship summer well underway, no one in Las Vegas is too concerned about that right now, […]

The Colorado Avalanche are primed to be perennial Stanley Cup contenders for the next few seasons, led by three of the league’s best players in Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar and Mikko Rantanen. And the 2022 champs also have a decent prospect pool with multiple players with the potential to play in the National Hockey League […]

There was a time when the aging Washington Capitals had probably the most shallow prospect pool of any National Hockey League team. A perennial Stanley Cup contender, the Caps have had a tremendous run in the Alex Ovechkin era, winning a ring in 2018 and enjoying several Presidents Trophies over the last decade. But along […]

The New England Patriots have agreed to sign offensive lineman Micah Vanterpool, KPRC 2 Houston’s Aaron Wilson reported on Sunday. Vanterpool is the second USFL player added to the team’s roster in under 12 hours; the Pats signed CJ Marable over the weekend as well. The free agent and Hawaii native played for the New […]

It seems like the Nashville Predators can’t decide whether they want to blow it up and rebuild or try to compete for a postseason spot in the Central Division next season. They haven’t won a playoff round since 2018, the year after they made a run all the way to the Stanley Cup Final, losing […]

The New York Islanders have been one of the better teams in the National Hockey League over the past five seasons, advancing to back-to-back Eastern Conference Finals in 2020 and 2021 before losing to the eventual Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning. But reinforcements are not on the way for the Long Island franchise ahead […]

The Las Vegas Raiders have not had their top rookie on the field at all this offseason, but that could be changing soon after Josh McDaniels provided a positive update on Tyree Wilson on Thursday. “Not going to put a timeline on it but…if we keep headed in the right direction, it shouldn’t be too […]

The Texas Rangers continue to surge in the American League, winning eight straight games to remain in first place in the AL West — and reinforcements are on their way. Both catcher Jonah Heim and starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi are ahead of schedule in their respective injury recoveries, according to manager Bruce Bochy. “Some good […]

The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed one of the top unrestricted free agent goaltenders left on the market, inking veteran Martin Jones to a one-year deal, Daily Faceoff’s Frank Seravalli reported on Wednesday. “Leafs have signed free agent goaltender Martin Jones to a one-year, $875,000 deal,” wrote Seravalli. “Quality insurance.” The 33-year-old spent the 2022-23 […]