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The Arizona Diamondbacks are bound for the National League Championship Series after stunning the Los Angeles Dodgers by completing a three-game sweep on Wednesday night — and the team celebrated in style. Multiple D-Backs players could be seen taking a dip in the outfield pool after the squad advanced to the NLCS for the first […]

Hockey fans, we finally made it to opening night. Exactly 124 days since the Vegas Golden Knights manhandled the Florida Panthers to win their first Stanley Cup, regular season National Hockey League play will resume in Tampa Bay, Pittsburgh, and Las Vegas on Tuesday night. For the first time, ClutchPoints will be compiling a weekly […]

The Arizona Cardinals were dealt a brutal injury blow on Monday, as star running back James Conner will miss multiple weeks with a knee injury he suffered during Week 5 against the Cincinnati Bengals, per Adam Schefter of ESPN. ‘Cardinals’ RB James Conner is expected to miss multiple weeks with the knee injury he suffered […]

When the Florida Panthers take to the ice for their first game of their 2023-24 season, they will have exactly two defensemen on the roster who suited up for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final back in June. That is a truly absurd stat, as four of the six Panthers D-men who helped the […]

Pittsburgh is the only NHL home that star forward Jake Guentzel has ever known — and the Penguins star made it clear he has no intention to sign anywhere else when his contract expires next summer. “I’ve pretty much grown up in Pittsburgh,” the former 2013 third-round pick told The Athletic’s Josh Yohe this week. […]

The Pacific Division is a monster. And that’s not just because the Seattle Kraken are now involved. That’s because there are at least three teams with Stanley Cup aspirations in the division, and at least six who enter the 2023-24 season with the goal of being one of the last eight teams standing in the […]

The Minnesota Wild were dealt a disappointing injury blow on the eve of the 2023-24 regular season, losing captain Jared Spurgeon week-to-week with an upper-body injury. The 33-year-old suffered the ailment during Minnesota’s 3-2 preseason shootout win against the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night. The injury itself was not confirmed, but appeared to occur after […]

The Toronto Maple Leafs will likely be without Matt Murray for the entire 2023-24 season after the veteran goaltender underwent successful hip surgery on Monday. “The [Maple Leafs] announced today that goaltender Matt Murray underwent successful bilateral hip surgery,” the team shared. “He is expected to miss a minimum of 6-8 months.” Murray has struggled […]

The Chicago Blackhawks are just days away from playing the first regular season game of the Connor Bedard era — and the team’s general manager knows he has something special in the 2023 No. 1 overall pick. “He’s been exactly as advertised,” Kyle Davidson said on Monday, according to ESPN’s Emily Kaplan. “He’s everything we […]

Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys were hammered by the San Francisco 49ers in primetime on Sunday night, and the veteran QB admitted he was surprised by the final score. “Didn’t see it coming,” Prescott said afterwards, according to ESPN’s Todd Archer. “Put everything into it and got punched in the mouth. Called it a […]

The Buffalo Sabres locked up a crucial piece of their future on Monday morning, inking superstar defenseman Rasmus Dahlin to a monster eight-year, $88 million contract extension, the team announced. The 23-year-old enjoyed a breakout campaign in 2022-23, recording 15 goals and 73 points in 78 games as the Sabres came within one win of […]

For the first time in National Hockey League history, there were two women coaches behind the bench for preseason action this week. Kori Cheverie and Jessica Campbell became the first women to coach an NHL team when they took up the role for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Seattle Kraken, respectively. Cheverie is one of six […]

The Minnesota Wild locked up a key piece of their offense on Friday, signing veteran Mats Zuccarello to a two-year, $8.25 million contract extension, the team announced. The 36-year-old is entering the final season of a five-year, $30 million contract he signed back in the summer of 2019. He was set to become an unrestricted […]

The Florida Panthers exceeded all expectations in 2022-23, going from a fringe playoff squad to the last team standing in the Eastern Conference. In a division that featured the greatest regular season team in history in the Boston Bruins, the team who had come out of the East for three consecutive seasons in the Tampa […]

At 26-years-old, Connor McDavid is already entering the conversation as one of the greatest hockey players of all time. He has been the best player in the National Hockey League for multiple years, and continues to get better after a ludicrous 64-goal, 153-point campaign in 2022-23. But, according to the Edmonton Oilers captain, there’s one […]

Mark Stone was probably not expecting to get absolutely hammered in his first taste of game action since winning the Stanley Cup with the Vegas Golden Knights in the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs. But that’s exactly what happened after the superstar was on the wrong side of a gigantic hit from Los Angeles Kings forward […]

The Connor Bedard Show has officially begun in the National Hockey League. The most hyped prospect since Connor McDavid was exceptional in his preseason debut for the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night, registering two assists as the Hawks beat the St. Louis Blues 2-1 in overtime. The 18-year-old finished the night by making a great […]

Connor Bedard will play his first preseason game with the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night, ushering in a new era in the Windy City. Gone are the perennial superstars and three-time Stanley Cup champions Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews. No longer are the Hawks a constant threat to come out of the Western Conference come […]

Let’s start this bold predictions piece with a bold prediction: the 2023-24 Edmonton Oilers are the best team in the Western Conference without a recent Stanley Cup. To put it more simply: the Oilers are one of the premier squads in the West, along with the Colorado Avalanche (2022 SC champions) and Vegas Golden Knights […]

If you talk to any Ottawa fan about the goal for the Senators 2023-24 season, you’ll probably hear the same thing over and over: make the playoffs. The Senators haven’t qualified for the dance since advancing to the Eastern Conference Final in 2017, and fans across Canada’s national capital are itching for April hockey in […]

After missing over half of the 2022-23 season due to hip surgery, Washington Capitals star forward Nicklas Backstrom made a massive revelation from training camp on Wednesday. “I’m 100 percent,” the Stanley Cup champion confirmed to the Associated Press this week. “I’ve done everything I can this summer. I worked really hard and really excited […]

The Calgary Flames have lost their 2019 first-round pick before the puck drops on the 2023-24 season, after Jakob Pelletier suffered a shoulder injury in the team’s preseason tilt against the Seattle Kraken on Monday night. Pelletier was injured in the home half of a split-squad exhibition game at the Saddledome in Calgary, after he […]

It’s been a long few seasons for Ottawa Senators forward Josh Norris, who played just eight games in 2022-23 after suffering a shoulder injury that necessitated surgery and ended the 24-year-olds campaign. But after an offseason of recovery and rehab, the young star took a step in the right direction at training camp on Wednesday. […]

The Philadelphia Flyers have been one of the more interesting teams over the last 13 years in terms of playoff success. After making an incredible run to the Stanley Cup Final in 2010, the Flyers lost two tough second-round battles the following two seasons. From the 2012-13 campaign until the end of 2020, Philly rotated […]

It genuinely is hard to picture how the 2023-24 NFL season could have gotten off to a worse start for Sean Payton and the Denver Broncos. Not only 0-3, they are coming off one of the most embarrassing losses in league history after a 70-20 beatdown at the hands of the Miami Dolphins in Week […]

The best player on the Anaheim Ducks roster remains without a contract after the team and star forward Trevor Zegras were unable to get an extension hammered out ahead of training camp. Zegras remains away from the team as he awaits a new deal; the restricted free agent joins defensemen Jamie Drysdale as the only […]

The fact that Evgeny Kuznetsov remains a Washington Capital with training camp underway is somewhat surprising considering the Russian was on the trade block this summer and officially requested a move. It was always going to be difficult to deal the 31-year-old, as he’s making over $7 million AAV for the next two years and […]

It’s been a nightmare season for Nolan Arenado’s St. Louis Cardinals, who came into the 2023 campaign with high expectations and were out of the running for a playoff berth by mid-August. This will be the first year without playoff baseball in Missouri since 2018. The 32-year-old Arenado was officially shut down with lower-back spasms […]

After nearly two years away from game action, Philadelphia Flyers forward Sean Couturier was back on the ice with his teammates in the squad’s first preseason contest on Monday night. The 30-year-old underwent back surgery twice since 2021, and hasn’t played a regular-season game since December of that year. “I’ve been waiting for this moment […]

The San Jose Sharks were a perennial Stanley Cup contender for over a decade, advancing to the Stanley Cup Final in 2016 and knocking on the door of Western Conference supremacy various other times in the 2010s. But after being one of the top teams in the NHL for so long, it only made sense […]

Pittsburgh Penguins fans rightly wondering where Erik Karlsson and Kris Letang will play with the man advantage during the 2023-24 season got their answer on Monday — head coach Mike Sullivan confirmed that both defensemen would see time on PP1 to start the year. “The power play is very important to Erik and Kris,” Sullivan […]

Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens were unable to remain undefeated in Week 3, losing a nailbiter to the Indianapolis Colts in overtime to fall to 2-1. Jackson believes his team should have won the game in the extra frame, especially as the Ravens were a field goal away from the victory with 3:25 remaining […]

The Miami Dolphins put the National Football League on notice in Week 3, absolutely destroying the Denver Broncos 70-20 and putting up the most points in a league game since 1966. Tua Tagovailoa’s team is already looking like the class of the NFL, and the young star explained the decision not to try to break […]

The Los Angeles Chargers finally got a win under their belt in a thrilling 28-24 victory against the Minnesota Vikings in Week 3 — but they may have lost Mike Williams in the process. “Remains to be seen today whether or not Mike Williams escaped major injury, he’s going to have an MRI today, but […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers continue to string together wins as October baseball approaches — and infielder Miguel Rojas proved on Sunday that the team is having fun while doing it. Rojas was mic’d up during the second inning of the Dodgers’ 3-2 walk-off win against the San Francisco Giants, and politely let the ESPN announcers […]

The Pittsburgh Penguins are one of the only National Hockey League teams that have won a Stanley Cup in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. They’ve been a Stanley Cup contender for the better part of 30 years, led by past superstars Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr, and a few of the game’s most marketable current […]

Joe Burrow’s status for Week 3 is the biggest storyline heading into a Cincinnati Bengals-Los Angeles Rams clash on Monday Night Football. The superstar quarterback is day-to-day due to an ankle injury, and his ability to take to the field will go a long way in determining whether the Bengals can avoid the nightmare 0-3 […]

For the first time in three seasons, the Minnesota Twins are back on top of the AL Central. After defeating the Los Angeles Angels 8-6 on Friday night, the 82-72 Twins will be playing postseason baseball in October. Barring a miracle, the Twins will be the American League’s No. 3 seed, meaning they’ll likely play […]

The Washington Capitals have suffered playoff heartbreak after playoff heartbreak in the Alexander Ovechkin era — but they broke through and won the Stanley Cup in 2018, so all past failures have been forgiven. But this has been a perennial regular season juggernaut that has failed to advance past the second round every season except […]