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The Pittsburgh Penguins are looking to bounce back after missing the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2023. However, they’ll have to begin the upcoming campaign without one of their more important forwards. Pittsburgh announced on Friday that Jake Guentzel will miss the start of the season due to ankle surgery. The 28-year-old will be reevaluated in […]

The Washington Capitals are in a bit of a weird spot. They want to rebound and make the Stanley Cup Playoffs after missing this past season. However, the window of time to win with the current core is rather short. One member of the team’s current core, forward Tom Wilson, is sticking around for the […]

The New York Rangers have endured a long, long wait to lift the Stanley Cup once before. Chris Kreider wants to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Via Mollie Walker: “Chris Kreider reflects on how the New York Rangers 2022-23 season ended: ‘I think like every guy on that team, I’ve got a pit in […]

The Washington Capitals didn’t have the 2022-23 season they were hoping for, and the same rings true for star winger Tom Wilson. Wilson played in just 33 games thanks to a bevy of injuries, and recorded just 22 points on the season, which was his lowest output in five years. Still, that didn’t stop the […]

The Vegas Golden Knights are still riding high after winning their first Stanley Cup in franchise history in June. In just their sixth season of existence, the Knights became the fastest team to win their first cup in modern NHL history. Of course, Vegas now has the monumental task of following up that championship run. […]

After an eventful offseason, the Calgary Flames were a team many had an eye on heading into 2022-23. Calgary overhauled its core almost overnight, losing Johnny Gaudreau and Matthew Tkachuk but bringing in Jonathan Huberdeau, Nazem Kadri and others. Even with a wildly different roster, some believed the Flames could repeat as Pacific Division champions […]

The Colorado Avalanche finally won the Stanley Cup in 2022, and hockey fans saw that one coming. Colorado emerged in recent years as a powerhouse on the ice. It wasn’t a question of if they’d win hockey’s biggest prize, it was a matter of when. Many expected another deep playoff run from the Avalanche in […]

The Ottawa Senators did a very commendable thing at the 2023 NHL Trade Deadline. Ottawa entered the deadline within striking distance of a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. And instead of punting, they decided to go for it. They added defenseman Jakob Chychurn via trade with the Arizona Coyotes to push for that playoff […]

The Boston Bruins have had a long line of impressive captains in the organization’s rich history, and Patrice Bergeron is one of them. Now, the Bruins have a tough decision as to who will replace him, but former head coach Bruce Cassidy thinks that Brad Marchand could handle the duties, per Boston.com. “I do,” Cassidy […]

The Anaheim Ducks have one of the most promising young cores in the NHL. Players like Trevor Zegras, Mason McTavish, and Jamie Drysdale have the potential to be legitimate stars and lead Anaheim to great success. On Wednesday, the Ducks rewarded a member of this core, inking Troy Terry to a seven-year contract. Terry first […]

The Edmonton Oilers are finally a contender after years of brutal play on the ice. Edmonton’s futility on the ice did parlay into NHL Draft Lottery luck, however. It’s why the Oilers have Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, undisputedly the two best hockey players in the world. However, Edmonton just hasn’t been able to go […]

The Winnipeg Jets are coming off a relatively unspectacular season, all things considered. They started off hot but cooled off by the second half and nearly fell out of the playoffs. Their season then ended with a thud in a five-game loss to the Vegas Golden Knights in the first round. Heading into the offseason, […]

The Anaheim Ducks have agreed to terms on a seven-year contract with right winger Troy Terry, the team announced on ‘X’, which is formerly known as Twitter. The contract has a $7 million average annual value against the salary cap, according to ESPN. This is an important deal for Anaheim since Terry is 25 years […]

The Minnesota Wild have been searching for playoff success since their inception. But aside from a Western Conference Final appearance in 2003, it has continuously eluded them. It has been especially agonizing in recent years, with seven straight series losses including a six-game defeat against the Dallas Stars earlier this year. As Minnesota tries to […]

NHL 24 is likely months away, as the official NHL season begins this October. While we haven’t seen any gameplay or screenshots of the game, EA announced a Playtest for the game is happening soon. If you’d like to sign up for the NHL 24 Playtest, just follow the steps below to possibly earn the […]

The Nashville Predators are coming off a disappointing season by their standards, as their streak of eight consecutive Stanley Cup Playoff appearances came to an end. That said, the fact that they came very close to making it is impressive in its own right. After selling off assets at the deadline, Nashville went on an […]

After a very brief re-tool, the Los Angeles Kings have asserted themselves as a regular playoff team once again. With some exciting young players plus a few veterans like Anze Kopitar still performing at a high level, the Kings are an exciting team for both the present and future. In each of the past two […]

The Boston Bruins have reportedly agreed on a two-year, $4.6 million contract with restricted free agent center Trent Frederic, according to Elliotte Friedman of SportsNet. The agreement means that the Bruins and Trent Frederic avoid going to arbitration to decide what he would have gotten. He will be an unrestricted free agent after this two-year […]

The Edmonton Oilers brought in forward Connor Brown on a one-year contract to the surprise of very few people. Brown and the Oilers were linked well ahead of the start of NHL Free Agency for one very specific reason: Brown’s relationship with superstar Connor McDavid. McDavid and Brown have known each other since they were […]

The Dallas Stars are coming off a pretty impressive season. Under new head coach Pete DeBoer, the Stars aimed for deeper playoff runs beginning in 2023. And they ended up achieving just that. Dallas defeated the Minnesota Wild in six games to advance to the second round. In the second round, they edged out the […]

The NHL offseason is in full swing, and the Minnesota Wild have wasted no time in locking in Filip Gustavsson on a new contract extension. The Wild have signed the goalie to a three-year deal worth more than $11 million, per the team’s website. ‘Minnesota Wild General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey […]

The New Jersey Devils are coming off of the team’s best regular season finish in history. After four straight seasons without playoff hockey, the Devils broke through in 2022-23. They finished second in the Metropolitan Division and made it past the New York Rangers in the first round. However, things fell apart in the second […]

The Seattle Kraken had a tough time on the ice during their first season in existence. Many hoped the team would take a step in the 2022-23 season, and they did just that. Seattle made their first appearance in the Stanley Cup Playoffs and even took out the defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche. That […]

Mark Stone raised the Stanley Cup as captain of the Vegas Golden Knights back in June. And while the celebrations have continued throughout the summer, Stone is already looking forward to the fall. Stone recently spoke with NHL.com about the summer his team has spent with hockey’s biggest prize. The Golden Knights captain revealed his […]

The New York Rangers entered free agency with holes to fill and not a lot of cap space to do it. Rangers general manager Chris Drury made a number of small additions to the roster in free agency, and generally got good reviews for them. The headliners for the Rangers’ offseason when it comes to […]

The Pittsburgh Penguins are going to give it at least one more try with their core players Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang at the head of the operation. New team president Kyle Dubas is making changes with the supporting cast, but the belief is that the trio of teammates can get the Penguins […]

The Florida Panthers were the cinderella story of the 2022-23 NHL season, barely advancing to the Stanley Cup Playoffs before making an incredible run all the way to the Stanley Cup Final. Although they were outclassed by the Vegas Golden Knights in the sport’s ultimate series, it was extremely encouraging that the core led by […]

The Toronto Maple Leafs have been one of the NHL’s top regular-season teams for the last three seasons and they have put together winning records in seven straight seasons. They are an exciting, high-scoring team to watch as they are led by Auston Matthews and Mitchell Marner, and they are dangerous nearly every time they […]

Vladimir Tarasenko hit NHL Free Agency as one of the more interesting players on the open market. The former Stanley Cup champion has a track record as a reliable sniper in the top six. However, this past season wasn’t exactly his best season. And he isn’t exactly getting any younger. It seemed as if the […]

Just when the NHL offseason was starting to feel a bit too quiet, the Carolina Hurricanes made one of the biggest moves of the offseason. Of course, that big move was signing star forward Sebastian Aho to a massive extension, and on his 26th birthday no less. The Hurricanes gave Aho quite the birthday present […]

Over the past few months, not much has gone right for the Boston Bruins. After their historic 2022-23 regular season campaign, the Bruins were bounced in the first-round of the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs by the Florida Panthers. They followed that up by losing a handful of key pieces to their team early in the […]

This is the summer of Connor Bedard for the Chicago Blackhawks. He is expected to be the most dynamic rookie to come into the NHL since Connor McDavid was drafted by the Edmonton Oilers in 2015. When the Blackhawks won the NHL’s Draft Lottery, they knew they would have a winning offseason because they gained […]

The Ottawa Senators landed star forward Vladimir Tarasenko to a one-year deal worth $5 million in free agency, after weeks of speculation where the former New York Ranger would end up. The 31-year-old was traded to the Rangers in February for forward Sammy Blais and several draft picks, as New York was gearing up for […]

The New York Islanders made a return trip to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2023 but were quickly ousted by the Carolina Hurricanes in the first round. Returning to the playoffs was a solid step forward, but the Islanders will be looking for more this season. However, getting to that point is going to be […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning saw their streak of three straight Stanley Cup Finals come to an unceremonious end this year, as they fell to the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round. The goal remains the same after a long offseason, though: get back to the Cup. The question is: can the Lightning get back […]

The St. Louis Blues didn’t just miss the postseason for the first time in five years in 2022-23 — they put together their worst regular season in recent memory, winning just 37 games and failing to advance by 14 points in the Western Conference. The Blues won the Stanley Cup in 2019, beating a juggernaut […]

If the Buffalo Sabres had beaten the Florida Panthers on April 4, 2023, they would have qualified for the postseason, snapping the longest active NHL playoff drought. Instead, the Panthers defeated them 2-1 and ended up advancing all the way to the Stanley Cup Final. Such is the nature of parity in the National Hockey […]

The Carolina Hurricanes have been knocking on the door of supremacy in the Eastern Conference for the past few seasons, but 2023-24 could be the year they are finally the team to beat in the East. The Canes advanced to the Eastern Conference Final during the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs, but were surprisingly swept by […]

Although the Columbus Blue Jackets made headlines across the National Hockey League when they hired Mike Babcock as the franchise’s new head coach, defenseman Zach Werenski is unfazed by the 60-year-olds reputation. “You want your head coach to fire you up and get your group going in the right direction,” Werenski said this week, per […]