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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 […]

Two years ago, the Boston Bruins clinched the President’s Trophy before the end of March following one of the greatest runs in NHL history. Last season, it was an insane race to the finish, with the New York Rangers coming out on top but seven teams, ridiculously, all within five points by the end. This […]

It’s hard to argue that it hasn’t been a successful first season of hockey in Salt Lake City. Despite a plethora of injuries, the Utah Hockey Club has been hanging around the playoff picture in the Western Conference all season long, and currently sit just four points back of the final postseason berth — with […]

Jeremy Lauzon set the National Hockey League record for the most hits in a season with the Nashville Predators in 2023-24 — but Kiefer Sherwood said not so fast. The bruising Canucks forward broke that record on Saturday afternoon against the New York Rangers. “Kiefer Sherwood sets an NHL record with his 384th hit of […]

Florida Panthers head coach Paul Maurice is well aware that Washington Capitals sniper Alex Ovechkin is approaching Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goal record — and he knows exactly how to shut the Russian down when the two heavyweight Eastern Conference teams meet in the nation’s capital on Saturday evening. “We’re just going to try and keep […]

Despite putting together two separate seven-game winning streaks in 2024-25, the Detroit Red Wings are closing in on yet another postseason-less campaign. And things are going to get even tougher without the services of defenseman Erik Gustafsson. “Erik Gustafsson is out long term, [head coach Todd] McLellan said,” The Athletic’s Max Bultman reported on Friday. […]

Although it’s been an incredible season for the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2024-25, things have completely gone off the rails for the team over the last two weeks. After occupying the top wildcard berth in the Eastern Conference early in March, they’ve lost six games in a row and have completely fallen out of the […]

Although the Florida Panthers are laser-focused on winning the Atlantic Division and ideally making another deep run in the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the future of key forward Sam Bennett remains a question mark ahead of the offseason. With most of the core locked up, the 28-year-old remains without a new contract, and the Toronto […]

The New Jersey Devils have struggled mightily in the third period of games as of late, and Thursday night was no different. After entering the final frame up 3-1 on the Calgary Flames, the team allowed their cross-conference foes to score four unanswered goals. And defenseman Brenden Dillon was not at all happy about it […]

As the 2024-25 campaign continues to go off the rails for the Philadelphia Flyers, they’ll have to play at least a couple of their last 12 regular-season games without key defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen. “Injury update: Flyers defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen is week-to-week with an upper-body injury,” the team’s official X account wrote on Thursday. It’s disappointing […]

The Anaheim Ducks are well on their way to missing out on the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the seventh consecutive time. Although they aren’t in one of the bottom two spots in the Pacific Division — which is where they’ve finished in each of the last four seasons — Greg Cronin’s team is a full […]

It’s no secret that Brock Boeser is not getting the most out of his contract year with the Vancouver Canucks in 2024-25. After setting career highs across the board last season, the American has had a tough go of it offensively this time around — along with many of his teammates — managing just 20 […]

Out of the four true Central Division contenders — the Minnesota Wild, Colorado Avalanche, Dallas Stars and Winnipeg Jets — only one didn’t improve significantly at the 2025 NHL trade deadline. And veteran forward Marcus Foligno is not too thrilled about the lack of moves his general manager made on March 7. “It’s tough. We […]

Tyler Seguin was one of the Dallas Stars’ best players in 2024-25 before suffering an injury that led to hip surgery, managing 20 points in 19 games along with a plus-14 rating. The 33-year-old underwent surgery at the beginning of December to repair a left side femoroacetabular impingement and the hip labrum, and was given […]