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It’s been a difficult 2024-25 campaign for Carter Verhaeghe. The Florida Panthers forward — who has managed back-to-back 70+ point regular seasons — has contributed just 49 points in 78 games this year. Before scoring an empty net goal in a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday, the 29-year-old hadn’t found the […]

Less than 48 hours after the Montreal Canadiens announced that Ivan Demidov was coming over from the KHL, his teammate — and former captain — will be heading to Raleigh. The Carolina Hurricanes officially signed Alexander Nikishin to a two-year entry-level contract on Friday, the team announced. “He has all the tools to be a […]

The Ottawa Senators have not been one of the last eight teams standing in the Eastern Conference since 2016-17. But nearly a decade after the franchise came within one victory of a trip to the Stanley Cup Final, captain Brady Tkachuk is leading his club back to the postseason. “I need to make sure I’m […]

It may have taken a little longer than he wanted to, but Brad Marchand has now officially scored a goal for two different NHL franchises. The Florida Panthers forward found twine for the first time not as a member of the Boston Bruins in a 4-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings at Amerant Bank […]

The Colorado Avalanche don’t have a ton to play for over their last three regular-season games — and they’ll likely have to play them without their best player. Nathan MacKinnon won’t suit up at home against the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday, and could also miss games No. 81 and 82 on the road, head coach […]

The Montreal Canadiens received a bombshell piece of news on Wednesday — top prospect Ivan Demidov is on the way. After putting together one of the best U-20 seasons in the history of the KHL, the former SKA Saint Petersburg forward signed his three-year entry-level deal with the Habs earlier this week. And according to […]

The Toronto Maple Leafs earned an enormous 4-3 overtime victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday night — and they also set a franchise record in the process. “Maple Leafs set a single-game franchise record with 33 blocked shots,” confirmed Sportsnet Stats shortly after the triumph. Morgan Rielly led the charge with an eye-opening […]

The Minnesota Wild realized just how badly they missed Kirill Kaprizov and Joel Eriksson Ek on Wednesday night. The two star forwards combined for six goals and an assist in their respective returns, powering a crazy 8-7 victory over the San Jose Sharks that brought the team closer to the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs. In […]

The New Jersey Devils are a point away from clinching a berth in the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs — and they could have one of their most important players back for the postseason. Dougie Hamilton, who has been out of the lineup since a 4-3 loss to the Dallas Stars on March 4 due to […]

The Florida Panthers may be the defending Stanley Cup champions, but they are limping into the 2025 postseason. With just five games left in their regular-season, the Cats have lost five games in a row and things don’t get any easier on Tuesday night against a Toronto Maple Leafs team that has won four straight. […]

Tampa Bay Lightning superstar Nikita Kucherov is on a torrid scoring pace once again in 2024-25, and he added his name to an exclusive list in a 5-1 drubbing of the New York Rangers on Monday night. The Russian scored a goal and added two assists in the victory, in the process becoming just the […]

It took Wayne Gretzky exactly 1,487 games to score 894 goals. It was only fitting that on Sunday afternoon, in his 1,487th contest, Alex Ovechkin became the greatest goal scorer in the history of the National Hockey League. A record that was long considered unbreakable was shattered on a rainy afternoon at UBS Arena in […]

Washington Capitals superstar Alex Ovechkin now stands side-by-side with Wayne Gretzky after scoring his 893rd and 894th NHL goals on Friday night against the Chicago Blackhawks — but former teammate TJ Oshie, who was in the building, missed the record-tying tally. Oshie was actually looking for the The Great One when The Great Eight scored […]

The 2024-25 campaign is completely going off the rails for the Minnesota Wild at maybe the most inopportune time. And veteran forward Mats Zuccarello was out of answers after a 3-1 loss to the New York Islanders on Friday night. “I don’t really have that much to say right now, to be honest with you,” […]

The Vegas Golden Knights are eyeing a second Stanley Cup championship in three seasons in 2024-25. After making a cinderella run to the Finals in their inaugural campaign back in 2017-18 — and eventually losing to Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals in five games — the Knights got over the hump two years ago, […]

Mikko Rantanen is really starting to find his stride with the surging Dallas Stars. The 28-year-old recorded two more assists in a 5-1 shellacking of the Nashville Predators on Thursday night, giving him nine points in his last six games. The Finnish forward’s second assist also saw him reach the 700-point mark; he’s the third-fastest […]

The Edmonton Oilers earned a tight 3-2 victory over the lowly San Jose Sharks on Thursday night at SAP Center — but they may have lost the Hart Trophy frontrunner in the process. Leon Draisaitl recorded an assist in the contest before leaving the game in the second period. “No, I don’t [have an update]. […]

Colorado Avalanche superstar defenseman Cale Makar added his name to National Hockey League lore on Thursday night, scoring his 30th goal of the campaign in a 7-3 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets. He’s just the ninth blue liner to accomplish the feat, and first since Mike Green did it in 2008-09, the NHL confirmed. […]

The Vegas Golden Knights will likely be getting a key reinforcement back into the lineup for a heavyweight matchup with the Western Conference-leading Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night. “Alex Pietrangelo is here at morning skate and taking rushes with Noah Hanifin, indicating he should be back in the lineup,” confirmed FOX 5 Las Vegas’ Vince […]

The Detroit Red Wings currently own one of the longest postseason droughts in the National Hockey League, and are staring down the barrel of a ninth consecutive campaign without playoff hockey. Whether or not Todd McLellan’s team gets in in 2024-25, it’s clear the roster needs to get better in the offseason to truly become […]

The Vancouver Canucks are fading away in the Western Conference playoff race, and they’ll most likely have to play the last seven games of their regular-season without forward Filip Chytil. The 25-year-old was hit from behind by Chicago Blackhawks forward Jason Dickinson in the third period of a 6-2 win on March 15, and hasn’t […]

Florida Panthers forward Aleksander Barkov was banged up in Tuesday night’s 3-2 overtime loss to the Montreal Canadiens, and the captain was unavailable for the second half of the back-to-back against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday. After the Panthers lost 3-2 to the Leafs at Scotiabank Arena, head coach Paul Maurice said he “[doesn’t] […]

The Los Angeles Kings are staring down the barrel of a fourth consecutive meeting with the Edmonton Oilers in Round 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The two Pacific Division rivals first met in the 2020s back in 2021-22, which ended up being a hard-fought seven-game series. The Oilers got the better of the Kings […]

The Colorado Avalanche already have one Makar brother in the system — and they just added another for at least the next year. “The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today that the team has signed forward Taylor Makar to a one-year, entry-level contract through the 2025-26 season,” the Avs wrote in the official release. “Makar […]

For most of the second half of the 2024-25 National Hockey League campaign, the battle for the President’s Trophy has been a two-horse race between the Washington Capitals and Winnipeg Jets. The cross-conference foes have dominated the league for long stretches, and looked poised to finish first and second as recently as a couple of […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning established themselves as a dynasty in the early 2020s, but it took some growing pains to get there. After capturing the President’s Trophy in 2018-19 as the league’s best regular-season team — and winning a ridiculous 62 of 82 games — the Bolts were widely expected to come out of the […]

The Anaheim Ducks earned one of their most thrilling victories of the 2024-25 season on Friday night, erasing a late 4-2 deficit and coming back to beat the New York Rangers 5-4 in overtime at the Honda Center. And Leo Carlsson, who led the way with his first career four-point game, was the comeback catalyst. […]

The St. Louis Blues have been one of the hottest teams in the National Hockey League over the last few weeks, racking off eight consecutive wins since March 15. And they could be getting even better for the stretch run after locking up NCAA stand out Jimmy Snuggerud on Friday. “St. Louis Blues President of […]

Brad Marchand made his Florida Panthers debut on Friday night and made an immediate impact, setting up Sam Bennett’s overtime game-winning goal in a 2-1 triumph over the Utah Hockey Club at Amerant Bank Arena. “It was still different today,” Marchand told reporters afterwards, including NHL.com’s George Richards. “Every day that goes by, I feel […]

After winning the Eastern Conference in each of the last two seasons — and capturing the franchise’s inaugural Stanley Cup championship last year — it’s hard to pinpoint a fatal flaw for a dominant postseason Florida Panthers team. Besides a behemoth Vegas Golden Knights squad in 2023, no club has been able to best the […]

Morgan Geekie has been a bright spot in what has been a miserable 2024-25 campaign for the Boston Bruins. The pending restricted free agent is third in team scoring with a career-high 26 goals and 41 points over 68 games. And Bruins GM Don Sweeney made it clear he is hoping to keep the 26-year-old […]

The Florida Panthers have been waiting patiently for Brad Marchand to make his debut with the team — and it looks like that is going to happen on Friday night when the Utah Hockey Club visits Amerant Bank Arena. “We expect him to get into this game, we expect him to play for us,” Panthers […]

Alex Ovechkin might not have scored for the Washington Capitals on Thursday night, and Marc-Andre Fleury may have been the backup for the Minnesota Wild, but a great moment of respect was shown between the two legends after the Wild beat the Caps 4-2 at Xcel Energy Center. Ovechkin orchestrated a team-wide handshake between Capitals players […]

The Los Angeles Kings have emerged into one of the National Hockey League’s best teams since play resumed after the 4 Nations Face-Off — and 22-year-old Quinton Byfield has been a huge reason why. The former second overall pick in the 2020 NHL Draft has been on a heater as of late, scoring seven goals […]

Although the Edmonton Oilers have fared relatively well without Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl in the lineup, they were unable to get a victory over the Dallas Stars at home on Wednesday night. Despite making a late comeback, the Oil eventually lost 4-3 — and they also lost starting goaltender Stuart Skinner in the process. […]

The John Tortorella era is officially over in Philadelphia. After a horrible 2024-25 season for the Flyers — they’re battling just to stay out of the Eastern Conference basement with nine games left — management decided to part ways with the veteran head coach on Thursday morning. “Today I made the very difficult decision to […]

For the second straight year, the Philadelphia Flyers have imploded at the end of the season. In 2023-24, Philly occupied a playoff spot before losing nine of 11 games to end the regular-season on the outside looking in. And although the playoff dream is long over in the City of Brotherly Love in 2024-25, the […]

The Vancouver Canucks absolutely needed a win on the road against the New Jersey Devils on Monday night — and Thatcher Demko was one of the key reasons why they were able to come away with the two points. After missing 15 games with a lower-body injury, Demko returned to the lineup and made 22 […]

The Vegas Golden Knights will be missing a key forward for the duration of their upcoming three-game road trip, but could be simultaneously getting their best defenseman back in the lineup. “On the VGK Insiders show, GM Kelly McCrimmon said Tomas Hertl did not go on the Golden Knights’ three-game road trip and is still […]