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The Minnesota Wild had a field day with the man advantage on Friday night, scoring a ridiculous five goals on the powerplay en route to a 6-4 win over the Florida Panthers. It was a much-needed win for a Wild team that had lost nine of 11 games coming into the cross-divisional tilt. Franchise history […]

Logan Couture hasn’t played a game for the San Jose Sharks in 2023-24, but that will change on Saturday night. The 34-year-old will make his season debut in a Pacific Division clash with the Anaheim Ducks at the SAP Center in California. Couture has missed the entire campaign with a lower-body injury he suffered while […]

The Seattle Kraken are going to have to skate for awhile without one of their best players on the ice. Kraken forward Yanni Gourde is slapped with a two game suspension for charging Edmonton Oilers’ player Mattias Ekholm, per NHL.com. Gourde charged at Ekholm during a Kraken-Oilers game on Jan. 18. The incident occurred during […]

The Detroit Red Wings entered their matchup with the Carolina Hurricanes on a roll. They won six of their previous seven games entering Friday. And they had recorded at least one point in each of those seven games. However, their point streak ended despite goals from J.T. Compher and Klim Kostin. Compher addressed the loss […]

The Washington Capitals are fighting for their playoff lives during the second half of the 2023-24 NHL season. And on Friday, they rewarded one of their more surprising performers. Washington signed young forward Aliaksei Protas to a five-year contract. The 23-year-old will earn a total of $7 million in signing bonuses while carrying a cap […]

The Vancouver Canucks extended president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford on Friday. Rutherford’s most pressing task now is securing the long-term future of star forward Elias Pettersson. Pettersson was asked about his contract status, but his stance regarding a new deal has not changed. Pettersson kept his thoughts on an extension extremely straightforward when speaking […]

The Carolina Hurricanes have played well as of late. Carolina has won seven of their last nine games, and are currently in a battle with the Detroit Red Wings in a crucial matchup in the Eastern Conference playoff race. In order to keep the momentum going, the team added depth in goal on Friday. The […]

It looks like Los Angeles Kings winger Viktor Arvidsson is progressing well in his recovery from back injury and could make his return sooner rather than later. Arvidsson returned to the ice for the first time in the 2023-24 season on Thursday after being sidelined since October due to a training camp back injury. According […]

The 2023-24 National Hockey League campaign is all but lost for the lowly Columbus Blue Jackets, but the team received some excellent news ahead of a Metropolitan Division tilt with the New Jersey Devils on Friday night. Boone Jenner, who fractured his jaw on Dec. 8 and hasn’t played since, will return to the lineup, […]

The Los Angeles Kings looked like one of the best teams in the National Hockey League through the first quarter of the 2023-24 season, skating to an excellent 16-4-3 record through 23 games. But it’s been a completely different story ever since. Todd McLellan’s team is mired in an ugly stretch that has seen the […]

Is there a better goalscorer on the planet right now than Auston Matthews? The Toronto Maple Leafs star powered his team to a 4-3 win over the Calgary Flames on Thursday with his fourth hat trick of the season, extending his NHL-leading mark in goals to 37 in 42 games. It’s the latest eye-popping feat […]

Nikita Kucherov won the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s MVP at the conclusion of the 2018-19 season after a ridiculous 41-goal, 128-campaign helped the Tampa Bay Lightning win the President’s Trophy. Although the Bolts were shockingly swept in the first round, they would go on to win the next two Stanley Cups, and come within […]

Just a year after getting traded to the Ottawa Senators, Jakob Chychrun finds himself in the trade rumor mill once again. The Senators acquired Chychrun from the Arizona Coyotes last year as they attempted to make a legitimate push in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Now, Ottawa finds itself near the bottom of the league standings […]

What a turnaround the Edmonton Oilers have made this season. After firing their coach on Nov. 12 of last year and being near the bottom of the NHL standings for much of the first two months of the season, the Oilers now find themselves in a playoff spot at the midway point of their season […]

Despite a betting-related suspension that is costing Ottawa Senators forward Shane Pinto 41 games of the campaign, the 23-year-old will spend at least another season in Canada’s capital. The Senators signed Pinto to a one-year contract worth an AAV of $775,000 on Friday, the team announced. The former second-round pick in the 2019 NHL Draft […]

The Pittsburgh Penguins find themselves in a testy situation ahead of the NHL trade deadline with left wing Jake Guentzel playing in the final year of his contract. As a result, Guentzel has found himself as a hot name in the trade rumor mill. However, Pierre LeBrun noted on TSN’s Insider Trading that Penguins GM […]

Juuse Saros has been a rock between the pipes for the Nashville Predators since Peka Rinne retired from the National Hockey League at the conclusion of the 2020-21 season — but the Finn might not be calling Smashville home for much longer. Although the Preds have not put Saros on the trade market, The Athletic’s […]

The Toronto Maple Leafs started the season with high hopes of bypassing the Boston Bruins, Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning to become the dominant team in the Atlantic Division of the NHL’s Easter Conference. So far this season, they have not met their own expectations. While they may have the best goal scorer in […]

Philadelphia Flyers forward Owen Tippett announced himself to the National Hockey League in style on Thursday night, scoring twice — including a remarkable goal of the year candidate — in a 5-1 drubbing of the Dallas Stars. In the process, the Flyers extended their winning streak to five games after coming through in front of […]

It’s been a challenging season for the Washington Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin so far. And with each stretch of goalless play, his chances of catching the “Great One” Wayne Gretzky’s record for most goals in a career diminishes. Ovechkin was on a six-game point streak before suffering a lower-body injury against the Seattle Kraken on January […]

Philadelphia Flyers forward Owen Tippett is emerging as a star for the team, and no play exemplified that fact more than the amazing goal he scored against the Dallas Stars on Thursday night. An immediate ‘goal of the year’ candidate, Tippett wouldn’t be denied with 5:30 remaining in the 3rd period and the Flyers leading […]

David Pastrnak had a hat trick and the Boston Bruins held off the red-hot Colorado Avalanche 5-2 on Thursday night. Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery is feeling good about the direction his team is headed, according to Bruins writer Ty Anderson: “We’re trending the right way. Slowly but surely. I think the last three games might be the […]

The Minnesota Wild are battling to climb the Central Division standings at the midpoint of the 2023-24 NHL season. The Wild have 41 points after beating the New York Islanders on Wednesday. To make matters worse, Minnesota received grim news on Jared Spurgeon’s injury status. The Wild look to overcome Jared Spurgeon’s unfortunate injury update […]

Former NHL star Tony Hrkac likely saved the life of a league employee who was choking on a pretzel in the press box during an L.A. Kings game. The troubling incident went down during an NHL game at Crypto.com Arena on January 4 … where the Kings were playing the Detroit Red Wings. Hrkac, a […]

The New York Rangers came within two wins of advancing to the Stanley Cup Final in 2021-22, and postseason expectations were skyhigh for a Blueshirts team that went 47-22-13 the following year. But instead of another deep run — the Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins and Carolina Hurricanes in back-to-back Game 7s to reach the […]

Despite belief around the Minnesota Wild organization that the team can return to postseason contention despite a ghastly first half to the 2023-24 campaign, the play in Saint Paul lately has told a different story. The Wild are 18-20-5, have lost eight of their last 10 games, and are looking like nothing close to a postseason […]

Despite signing a one-year, $4 million contract with the Chicago Blackhawks ahead of the 2023-24 National Hockey League campaign, Corey Perry was left without a team in late November after an alleged incident with a team employee. Two months later, Perry has been reinstated into the league by Gary Bettman, and according to reporter Mike […]

Colorado Avalanche goalie Alexandar Georgiev has had a heavy work load this season, making 37 starts, more than any other goalie in the NHL and on track for 66 starts, more than Avalanche general manager Chris MacFarland’s ideal number of 50-to-55 starts, and he opened up on Georgiev’s heavy work load. “I’ll be honest, I […]

After an abysmal start to the 2023-24 campaign, the Edmonton Oilers are on an absolute tear as of late. The Oil have won 11 straight games, and are 21-6 since new head coach Kris Knoblauch took over on Nov. 12. Now 24-15-1 and just one point back of the Los Angeles Kings for the No. […]

The Pittsburgh Penguins are fighting for their postseason lives in an ultra-competitive Metropolitan Division in 2023-24, and the front office will soon have a huge decision to make on superstar forward Jake Guentzel. The 29-year-old is set to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season, and with the Pens a toss-up […]

Sam Reinhart has been on an absolute tear for the Florida Panthers in 2023-24, and the budding superstar scored his 33rd goal of the campaign in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday night. Despite the defeat, the young All-Star set a franchise record by scoring a goal in his eighth […]

The Philadelphia Flyers are showing progress in 2023-24. In fact, not only are they showing progress, they are in the thick of the playoff race. Even beyond that, they are true contenders for the Metropolitan Division title. Philadelphia sits in second place behind the New York Rangers as of this writing. The Flyers are one […]

Detroit Red Wings goalie Alex Lyon returned to Florida for the first time on Wednesday night. The veteran puck-stopper led the Florida Panthers to the Stanley Cup Playoffs with an incredible run of form down the stretch last season. As a result, his former team extended a rather classy gesture to Lyon. The Panthers honored […]

The Anaheim Ducks recently made a rather shocking trade, acquiring Cutter Gauthier from the Philadelphia Flyers. In that trade, defenseman Jamie Drysdale went the other way. Drysdale shared a unique relationship with Anaheim forward Trevor Zegras over the last few years. So, perhaps it isn’t entirely surprising that Zegras found his name in the rumor […]

Head coach Sheldon Keefe has questions about his Toronto Maple Leafs squad at the season’s halfway point. To be clear, these aren’t good ones either. With his team sitting in third place in the Atlantic Division, Keefe admitted that “42 games in, I still have a lot of questions quite honestly about who is going […]

The San Jose Sharks are struggling in the competitive Western Conference amid the 2023-24 NHL season. San Jose has accumulated 24 points, which puts them last in the Pacific Division. Nevertheless, the Sharks made a major announcement on legendary center Joe Thornton. The Sharks will honor Joe Thornton’s historical run with the team The Sharks […]

The city of Buffalo has been hit hard by snow over the past few days (just ask the Buffalo Bills), and that has continued as we progress through this week. After the Bills had their Wild Card round matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers postponed from Sunday to Monday, it’s now the Buffalo Sabres (and Chicago […]

As the Minnesota Wild continue to struggle, trade rumors are beginning for goalie Marc-Andre Fleury. A day after he passed Hall of Fame goaltender Patrick Roy for second on the NHL’s all-time wins list, Wild general manager Bill Guerin addressed Fleury’s future in Minnesota on Tuesday. Guerin said he thinks that chatter is “premature” and […]

The Washington Capitals got back in the win column on Tuesday night. Washington faced an Anaheim Ducks team that was coming off a win their last time out. However, the Ducks failed to get a puck past Darcy Kuemper on Tuesday as they lost for the 10th time in their last 13 games. After the […]