There have been a lot of rumors flying around this week about Alexander Ovechkin’s possible retirement. After the no-handshake debacle following a win against the Pittsburgh Penguins on April 12, I was fully prepared to write a column about that development.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are making headlines again. Leafs captain Auston Matthews has been ruled out for the season with an MCL tear in his left knee, following a collision with Anaheim Ducks captain Radko Gudas on March 12.
We’re 50 games and a goalie fight into the season, and NHL insiders and reporters are starting to buzz about trades and the postseason. Trade rumors and front office discussions have thrust general managers into the spotlight.
During the preseason, the NHL released its power rankings, a listing of the hypothesized top-16 teams in the league for the upcoming season. On this list, the Edmonton Oilers sat at No. 4, while the Florida Panthers owned the No. 6 spot.
The New York Rangers recently broke an NHL record — but it’s probably not the one they were hoping for. In their first three home games of the season, the Rangers scored exactly zero goals, surpassing the 2001-02 Florida Panthers for the most consecutive minutes gone without a goal on home ice to start the season.
New England Patriots Head Coach Mike Vrabel returned to his old stomping grounds where he defeated the Tennessee Titans 31-13 on Sunday. It was the Patriots' fourth consecutive victory and fifth overall on the season, surpassing their number of wins from each of the last two seasons.
The NHL is back, but the 2025-2026 season looks very different than its past 11 years. For the first time since the 2014 Winter Olympics, NHL players will be allowed to represent their country at the quadrennial sporting spectacle.
It’s the first day of the 2025-26 NHL Season. Hockey fans can rejoice once more: surviving another offseason full of trade rumors, not-so-permanent retirements — ahem, Marc-Andre Fleury — and the first — and hopefully, last — decentralized draft.
I only got into hockey when I arrived at Boston University and realized there was no collegiate baseball or football — the only two sports I actually paid attention to.
Alexander Ovechkin has been incredible for hockey. The next generation of NHL players grew up watching him and the booming one-timer from the left circle that became his signature.
