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Toronto Maple Leafs star John Tavares is having an incredible season. Tavares set a new career high in March, per Sportsnet, with 12 goals scored in that calendar month. Leafs John Tavares sets a career-high for goals in a calendar month with 12 pic.twitter.com/mNXHLCOcHD — Sportsnet Stats (@SNstats) March 30, 2025 Tavares accomplished that feat […]

Edmonton Oilers center Leon Draisaitl hit a personal career best on Saturday night. Draisaitl became a 50-goal scorer for the fourth time, as Edmonton defeated the Calgary Flames, 3-2. FOR THE FOURTH TIME IN HIS NHL CAREER LEON DRAISAITL IS A 50-GOAL SCORER pic.twitter.com/ZNGVFkbymx — Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) March 30, 2025 Draisaitl scored a goal in […]

The Toronto Maple Leafs will conclude their California road trip by driving south on the I-5 Freeway to the Honda Center, where they will face the Anaheim Ducks. It will be a Sunday night clash in Anaheim as we continue our NHL odds series and make a Maple Leafs-Ducks prediction and pick. The Maple Leafs […]

The Montreal Canadiens will continue their Southeastern road trip with a showdown with the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers. It will be a possible playoff preview as we continue our NHL odds series and make a Canadiens-Panthers prediction and pick. The Panthers lead the head-to-head series 61-50. Furthermore, the Cats are 7-3 in the […]

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 Edmonton Oilers are without both of their superstars right now as Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid continue to be sidelined due to injuries. However, it appears one of them is back. Draisaitl, who is the frontrunner for the Hart Trophy, skated Saturday morning ahead of the Battle of Alberta against the Calgary Flames and […]

The Carolina Hurricanes have one of the most dependable and hardest-working players in the NHL in defenseman Brent Burns. In the Hurricanes’ 4-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Friday night, Burns played in his 915th-consecutive NHL game, moving him up to No. 4 all time. Since making his debut with the Minnesota Wild in […]

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 […]

The Philadelphia Flyers fired head coach John Tortorella on Thursday amid a season in which they are languishing near the bottom of the NHL’s Eastern Conference. While the on-ice results certainly played a factor, some wondered if Tortorella’s comments after losing to the Toronto Maple Leafs 7-2 had anything to do with his dismissal. With […]

The Chicago Blackhawks will not go to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2025. Chicago has officially been eliminated from postseason contention. This is not a surprising development, to be fair. The Blackhawks fired head coach Luke Richardson due to poor results. And unfortunately, interim coach Anders Sorensen has not done much better. What makes matters […]

The Florida Panthers made a massive trade for Brad Marchand at the 2025 NHL Trade Deadline. However, the future Hall of Famer did not skate with the team immediately. The ex-Boston Bruins captain suffered an injury before the trade, leaving him out of action. He made his highly anticipated Panthers debut on Friday, though, and […]

Head coach Todd McLellan and the Detroit Red Wings suffered another brutal defeat on Thursday night. They faced their Atlantic Division rival Ottawa Senators at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan. Unfortunately, it was the visiting Senators who felt right at home for most of the contest. Ottawa got off to a 3-0 lead […]

In 2022-23, Edmonton Oilers star Ryan Nugent-Hopkins enjoyed a career season offensively. The former No. 1 overall pick played all 82 games that year. And in those 82 games, he shattered previously established career highs with 37 goals and 104 points. Unfortunately, it appears that season was a significant outlier. To be fair, this isn’t […]

The Calgary Flames will travel up the AB-2 to clash with the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place. It will be the Battle of Alberta as we continue our NHL odds series and make a Flames-Oilers prediction and pick. The Flames and Oilers have won 140 regular-season games apiece. The Oilers are 8-2 in the past […]

The St. Louis Blues will attempt to stay hot as they head into Denver for a showdown with the Colorado Avalanche. It almost feels like playoff hockey as we continue our NHL odds series and make a Blues-Avalanche prediction and pick. The Avalanche leads the head-to-head series 90-78-11. Furthermore, the Avs have gone 7-3 in […]

The Colorado Avalanche’s only hope is that their moves earlier in the season don’t return to haunt them in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. General manager Chris MacFarland was in a tough spot in the middle of this season. Longtime star Mikko Rantanen’s contract expires at the end of this season, and MacFarland feared they’d lose […]

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 Carolina Hurricanes host the Montreal Canadiens on Friday night. They have been blistering hot since they traded Mikko Rantanen at the NHL trade deadline, winning six of the eight games since. Now, they get a forward back to help fill the role Rantanen left vacant. Hurricanes winger Andrei Svechnikov has missed the last nine […]

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 […]

The New York Rangers play in Anaheim against the Ducks on Friday night. Normally, this matchup is a late-night matchup between two teams with limited history against each other. But this year will be very different. Former Rangers captain Jacob Trouba was traded to the Ducks earlier this season, ending a tumultuous run in Manhattan. […]

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 Philadelphia Flyers fired head coach John Tortorella on Thursday. In their first game with Brad Shaw as the interim, they won 6-4 over the Montreal Canadiens. But eyes were on the bench, where defenseman Cam York sat for the final 50 minutes of the game. The Athletic’s Kevin Kurz reported Friday that an incident […]

The Philadelphia Flyers fired head coach John Tortorella on Thursday. They won their first game with interim coach Bard Shaw, but replacement rumors are already swirling. Across the continent, the Vancouver Canucks are fighting for a playoff spot in a season full of drama with a coach on an expiring contract. The Athletic’s Pierre LeBrun […]

The Nashville Predators have had a dreadful season in 2024-25. After spending big in NHL Free Agency, this team expected to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs. However, the Predators turn their attention to the 2025 NHL Draft. Nashville lost to the St. Louis Blues on Thursday night. With this loss, Nashville is officially eliminated from […]

The Winnipeg Jets are a Stanley Cup contender in 2025. Winnipeg officially clinched a postseason berth recently. And they are likely to head into the playoffs as one of the top seeds in the league. Perhaps it is to be expected for a team led by the likes of Connor Hellebuyck, Mark Scheifele, and Nikolaj […]

The Detroit Red Wings are falling out of postseason contention as the 2024-25 season nears its end. The Red Wings knew it would be difficult to make the playoffs, given their brutal second-half schedule. Still, the manner in which Todd McLellan’s team has fallen is hard for fans to watch. And things did not get […]

The Philadelphia Flyers fired head coach John Tortorella on Thursday morning. The Flyers are looking for a new coach after a brutal season that likely ends without postseason hockey once again. After Philadelphia’s late-season collapse last year, expectations were higher in 2024-25. However, general manager Daniel Briere did not feel as if those expectations were […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning lost Steven Stamkos to the Nashville Predators in NHL Free Agency over the summer. Stamkos spent 16 years in central Florida, winning two Stanley Cups with the franchise. He left behind an incredible legacy. And he left the team in the hands of the likes of Victor Hedman, Nikita Kucherov, and […]

Sidney Crosby continues to prove he ranks with the greatest players in the history of the National Hockey League. While his Penguins languish in the standings, Crosby continues to put eye-opening and record setting numbers on the scoreboard. He scored his 26th goal and 80th point of the season in the first period of Thursday […]

The Chicago Blackhawks stumbled out of the gate in the 2024-25 NHL season in which they were expected to improve from their abysmal results in each of the two previous campaigns. However, after a particularly brutal stretch that saw them go 3-9-1 in 13 games and stuck in 431st place in the NHL, the Blackhawks […]

The Boston Bruins have been one of the most successful teams in the NHL throughout the past decade. They have been to the playoffs  every year since 2016-17, making the Stanley Cup Finals in 2019 and setting the league record for wins and points in 2023. However, they have fallen apart in recent weeks and […]

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 […]

The Washington Capitals have already clinched a playoff spot with 103 points from 71 games. That puts the spotlight firmly on Alex Ovechkin’s chase of Wayne Gretzky’s goal record. He enters Thursday’s game against the Minnesota Wild with 889 career goals, five away from tying the record. Former Capitals coach and current Predators GM Barry […]

The Chicago Blackhawks are in the middle of another miserable season. With 51 points out of 72 games, they are already eliminated from the playoffs. Even with Connor Bedard having his best season yet, they have not jumped into playoff competition yet. The organization knows it needs help and has its eyes set on the […]

The Montreal Canadiens will battle the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday at the Lenovo Center. It will be a potential playoff preview as we continue our NHL odds series and make a Canadiens-Hurricanes prediction and pick. The Canadiens lead the head-to-head series 110-75-9. However, the Canes are 9-1 in the past 10 games against the Habs. […]

The Toronto Maple Leafs have plenty to prove in this year’s Stanley Cup Playoffs. Over the past ten years, it has primarily been a disaster for this team’s core, and a Stanley Cup will be the only thing to impress their fans. Toronto believed the first move was to bring in a stricter coach, which […]