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If fans had any doubts about Connor McDavid’s desire to win a Stanley Cup with the Edmonton Oilers, they should feel quite confident in his stance following Monday’s big news. The three-time Hart Memorial Trophy winner signed a two-year contract extension with an average annual value (AAV) of $12.5 million, gifting the front office crucial […]

Edmonton Oilers fans can breathe a little easier today. The front office and Connor McDavid have agreed to a two-year contract extension. This will keep the best player in the league in Edmonton through the 2027-28 season. While the Oilers are happy to have a deal done, this contract may not result in perfect grades […]

The Edmonton Oilers are certainly staying busy with just over 24 hours until the 2025-26 National Hockey League season commences. Just minutes after signing superstar Connor McDavid to a team-friendly two-year, $25 million extension on Monday, GM Stan Bowman is giving defenseman Jake Walman a long-term deal. As first reported by Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, the […]

Brad Marchand will always be associated with the Boston Bruins. But while he’s regarded as one of the best ever to put on a Bruins uniform, Marchand is also having quite a career revival with the Florida Panthers, with whom he was able to raise the Lord Stanley Cup for the second time in his […]

The Edmonton Oilers’  nightmare is over: Connor McDavid is signing a contract extension to remain with the club. While it looked like McDavid could start the regular season without a contract extension, talks began to move quickly on Monday, according to Elliotte Friedman, and the captain will be staying with the team past the 2025-26 […]

The New York Islanders open their 2025-26 season on Thursday on the road against the Pittsburgh Penguins. While they are not expected to make the postseason this year, there are still reasons for excitement. Forwards Maxim Shabanov and Calum Ritchie had solid preseasons before playing an NHL game. But one defenseman will have all the […]

The Utah Mammoth come into the 2025-26 NHL season with high expectations. After scaring the playoffs in their inaugural season, they made some solid offseason moves and have a mascot now. The Mammoth signed JJ Peterka to a long-term extension after trading him, but also tried to get center Logan Cooley on a big contract […]

Mike Sullivan bid farewell to the Pittsburgh Penguins in April 2025 as the franchise’s all-time leader in regular-season wins and Stanley Cup Playoffs. He led the Penguins to back-to-back Stanley Cups in 2016 and 2017, and now finds himself hoping to achieve something similar with the New York Rangers. In what is undoubtedly a brutal […]

The Florida Panthers are on a mission to win their third championship in a row, and they still have the team to do so. There’s no doubt that this team has become a dynasty, and if they’re able to get back to the Stanley Cup Final again, it should be no question of what they’ve […]

Outside of being inducted into the Hall of Fame, having one’s number retired is likely the most prestigious honor that can be attained. Former Boston Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara will receive this distinction when the franchise places his No. 33 in the rafters. The Bruins announced that they will retire the former captain’s jersey number […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning have been one of the most successful teams in the NHL. As they prepare for the start of the 2025-26 season, they have secured a spot in the playoffs in each of the last eight seasons. During that time, they earned back-to-back Stanley Cups in 2020 and 2021. Despite all their […]

The Nashville Predators are preparing to host the Columbus Blue Jackets to open the season on October 9th. The team was in a stalemate with a restricted free agent, but has now re-signed Luke Evangelista to a two-year $6 million deal. While the stalemate is over between the two sides, it may not be the […]

The Chicago Blackhawks made a move in hopes of patching up their leaky defense ahead of the 2025-26 season. Two days before the start of the regular season, the Blackhawks signed ex-Boston Bruins and Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Matt Grzelyck to a one-year deal carrying a $1 million cap hit. He will likely snag a spot […]

The San Jose Sharks announced on Sunday afternoon that they acquired defenseman Ryan Ellis and a conditional sixth-round pick from the Philadelphia Flyers. San Jose sent Philadelphia forward Carl Grundstrom and defenseman Artem Gruyère in return. Ellis will likely not play a game for the Sharks. He has not played a game since Nov. 2021, […]

The Sunshine State Showdown between the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning is continuing to heat up as one of the NHL’s fastest-growing rivalries. Even if it was just a preseason game, Florida and Tampa Bay combined for 16 ejections and 312 penalty minutes on Saturday night. The Panthers came away with a 7-0 win […]

The Calgary Flames are making progress. They did not make the playoffs last season, but head coach Ryan Huska has seen his team make significant progress. The Flames and St. Louis Blues both finished the 2024-25 with 96 points, but the Blues were awarded the eighth and final position in the Western Conference playoff structure […]

The Buffalo Sabres are hoping to break one of the most ignominious streaks in the NHL. The Sabres have not made the Stanley Cup playoffs since the 2009-10 season, and their long-suffering fans are hoping that this is the year they can get back to the postseason. The Sabres finished last season in sixth place […]

The Seattle Kraken are looking to continue their retool and enter the playoff conversation again after missing the dance for the past two seasons. Seattle made splashes in the 2024 offseason, bringing in Stanley Cup champions Chandler Stephenson and Brandon Montour to add to a stout core that was competitive for most of the team’s […]

Rumors are swirling that the Chicago Blackhawks are in the market to trade former first-round pick Lukas Reichel ahead of the 2025-26 season. Reichel, who Chicago selected 17th overall in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft, had a letdown of a season in 2024-25. The 23-year-old netted just eight goals and 22 points in 70 games […]

The Minnesota Wild made headlines on Saturday morning when they signed starting goaltender Filip Gustavsson to a five-year, $34 million contract. It was the second contract they agreed to in less than a week after the Wild inked Kirill Kaprizov to a record-setting deal on Tuesday, Gustavsson’s $6.8 million annual cap hit would pin him as […]

With his entry-level contract nearing a close, Montreal Canadiens star Lane Hutson may not make as much money as some of his other peers on the blue line have in recent weeks. In the days before the start of the 2025-26 season, the New Jersey Devils inked young defenseman Luke Hughes to a massive contract […]

2024-25 was a continuation of the slow decline that the Pittsburgh Penguins have been on over the last few seasons. Since bowing out of the first round of the 2021-22 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Penguins have gone from 103 to 91 to 88 to 80 points over the last few seasons. GM Kyle Dubas looks […]

The Utah Mammoth may have just missed out on securing a berth in the Stanley Cup Playoffs in what was their first season in Salt Lake City following their relocation from Arizona and their former identity as the Coyotes, but they’ve already made an indelible impression on fans in the area. Every game at Delta […]

The Minnesota Wild continue to solidify their roster after already giving Kirill Kaprizov the richest contract in the league earlier this week. The Wild also agreed to a contract extension with starting goaltender Filip Gustavsson on Saturday morning, via Michael Russo. Gustavsson will receive $6.8 million annually over five years, with the deal commencing in […]

The Los Angeles Kings are preparing for a very important 2025-26 NHL season. Los Angeles has a new general manager in Ken Holland after four straight first-round exits. More than this, the team is about to undergo a changing of the guard. Anze Kopitar is retiring from the NHL after the 2025-26 campaign. Kopitar has […]

The Chicago Blackhawks are going to need a lot of help if they want to dig themselves out of their lengthy rebuild. And it is going to need to come from more than just Connor Bedard. Bedard did take a step back after showing generational potential in his 2023-24 rookie season. After scoring 22 goals […]

The Nashville Predators are going to need some help from all sorts of places to bounce back from a disappointing 2024-25 campaign. And they have to look further than just Steven Stamkos after he had arguably the worst season of his career. Stamkos was a disappointment in his first season with the Predators after signing […]

The Philadelphia Flyers are aiming to return to the postseason for the first time since the COVID-shortened 2019-20 season. If they are going to do it in 2025-26, they are going to need help from this X-Factor — and it is not second-year forward Matvei Michkov. Michkov will be an important piece of the Flyers’ […]

Wing Luke Evangelista and the Nashville Predators finally ended the 23-year-old forward’s holdout with an agreement on a brand new contract. Evangelista inked a two-year contract with the Predators, carrying a $3 million annual price tag, and will promptly join the team to finish out the preseason, per The Athletic’s Chris Johnston. The then-restricted free […]

The Florida Panthers have designs on joining the elite teams in NHL history that have won at least 3 consecutive Stanley Cup championships when the 2025-26 season comes to a conclusion. The Panthers have won the title twice in a row, beating the Edmonton Oilers in the Stanley Cup Finals each time. However, the third […]

The Vegas Golden Knights are heading into the 2025-26 season with Stanley Cup expectations. They signed Mitch Marner to an eight-year deal worth $12 million per season, which will impact another deal they have coming. The Minnesota Wild also signed Kirill Kaprizov to a deal worth $17 million per year, taking one of the biggest […]

Mitch Marner is just five days away from playing his first ever National Hockey League game not as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Vegas Golden Knights’ marquee offseason addition is preparing for life on the strip, and he admitted to The Athletic’s Dan Robson that he’s looking forward to the different expectations […]

It was a difficult pill for fans in the Twin Cities to swallow as they had to watch their beloved Minnesota North Stars relocate from one of the hockey hotbeds in the United States to The Lone Star State. The North Stars were relocated to Dallas, where they dropped the “North” from their name and […]

Toronto Maple Leafs forward Scott Laughton will miss the team’s 2025-26 regular-season opener after suffering a lower-body injury in a 3-1 preseason loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night, the team announced. Laughton is considered week-to-week and could begin the campaign on injured reserve. The 31-year-old is entering his first full season in […]

The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo will be a unique event. In the hockey world, it will mark the first time NHL players from all over the world will compete since 2014. Among the top teams will be Canada, the United States and Sweden. Speaking of Sweden, former Blues player and current […]

The New York Islanders have used the preseason to see which players could play a crucial part during the year, and one player that has stood out is Cal Ritchie. He was making strides the past few weeks, but that stopped in their preseason finale when he had to exit the game due to a […]

Although the Carolina Hurricanes were considered the frontrunners to sign free agent forward Michael McLeod following his reinstatement into the National Hockey League, that no longer seems to be the case. As The Athletic’s Chris Johnston reported late on Thursday night, the Canes are not interested in any of the former players recently exonerated in […]

The Edmonton Oilers have won the Western Conference in two consecutive seasons, losing to the Florida Panthers in both Cup Finals. They reshaped their depth in the offseason with one big question looming overhead. Connor McDavid is entering his contract year, which could lead to changes in Edmonton. The Oilers made a big move in […]

The Anaheim Ducks enter the 2025-26 season with a new bench boss and playoff expectations. Joel Quenneville is behind the bench in Southern California, leading a group with newly signed Mason McTavish and Lukas Dostal. On Thursday, the Ducks signed Jackson LaCombe to an eight-year contract extension worth $72 million, the richest deal in franchise […]