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There aren’t many connecting points for the Ottawa Senators and Utah Hockey Club, two National Hockey League teams nearly 3,000 kilometres apart....
The Calgary Flames did not enter the 2024-25 season with lofty postseason hopes. Deep organizational rebuilds intended to increase salary cap...
Cole Caufield and Nick Suzuki need some help. If I were to describe the state of the Montreal Canadiens in one sentence, I’d start there. Because...
There are few things less comfortable for an organization than losing a superstar player to injury. So, you can imagine the trepidation the Toronto...
When the Ottawa Senators inked Thomas Chabot to an eight-year, $64-million dollar contract back in 2020, there was hope the team had found their...
What’s wrong with the Edmonton Oilers? It wasn’t 12 months ago that we were asking the same question, culminating in the team waiving its...
Do the Vancouver Canucks have the best defensive pairing in hockey? One month into the 2024-25 regular season, they have certainly forced their way...
The Montreal Canadiens and San Jose Sharks may be thousands of kilometres apart geographically, but there are a striking number of similarities...
Toronto, we may have a problem. Craig Berube’s first month behind the Maple Leafs bench has been a mixed bag of results. The team is off to a bit of...
Entering the 2024-25 season, I figured the NHL’s Central Division would be the deepest and most competitive of the league’s four groupings. That...
The Edmonton Oilers are becoming familiar with slow starts. Last season, the Oilers came up one game short of winning the Stanley Cup. The run was so...
Few storylines this season will rival Alexander Ovechkin’s chase for the NHL’s all-time goal scoring record, famously held by the venerable...
William Nylander’s skeptics have been effectively silenced over the past three seasons. The dynamic Swede finally found a scoring touch to couple...
It has been many years since the Ottawa Senators have felt confident in net. But after acquiring Linus Ullmark this off-season, Ottawa finally has a...
Is the National Hockey League increasingly becoming a story of haves and have-nots? It’s something I’ve been thinking about, in part because...
The National Hockey League regular season is fast approaching, and before business picks up I need to address the elephant in the room: The hockey...
The NHL’s current Collective Bargaining Agreement is set to expire at the end of the 2025-26 regular season. And though the NHL has been in a period...
Buy low, or buyer beware? It’s a question front offices around the National Hockey League are kicking around right now in the context of Columbus...
Recency bias or not, the Paris 2024 Olympics felt like the most compelling international competition in recent history. From a shot heard ‘round the...
The National Hockey League’s heightened scoring era appears here to stay. With that comes one of several inescapable new realities for front offices...
After 114 games in Montreal, the Canadiens front office has seen enough from defenceman Kaiden Guhle. The team committed to a six-year, $33-million...
Perhaps the most interesting roster building dynamic in the National Hockey League’s modern era can be found at the goaltending position. For...
Quietly, the Los Angeles Kings have been navigating a challenging off-season with regards to the salary cap. Their current financial inflexibility...
After a hectic start to the NHL off-season that saw hundreds of signings worth an excess of $1 billion in salary, it’s three Pacific Division moves...
How many years does Chris Tanev have left as a stalwart defenceman? That is the question general manager Brad Treliving and the Toronto Maple...
What’s the one pre-game statistic that may provide comfort for nervous Edmonton Oilers fans as their team enters Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final?...
Caution: objects in the rear-view mirror may be closer than they appear. So hopes extreme optimist Kris Knoblauch and the rest of the Edmonton Oilers,...
Legendary college football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant once famously said, “Offence sells tickets. Defence wins championships.” It’s an adage...
Do the Edmonton Oilers have the best attacking top line in the modern era of hockey? While doing some research and preparation for the Stanley Cup...
For the second time in 12 months, the Florida Panthers will represent the Eastern Conference in the Stanley Cup Final. And though a championship...
The Dallas Stars are starting to crack, and it’s the pressure from the top of the Edmonton Oilers lineup that deserves the credit. I had three...
The glass-half-full assessment of Edmonton splitting the first two games in Dallas is straightforward: So long as Kris Knoblauch’s team can...
If the Florida Panthers are going to repeat as Eastern Conference champions, they’re going to need a solution on special teams. Florida’s...
Vancouver’s big guns need to step up. A bit of a paraphrase to be sure, but that was the message head coach Rick Tocchet was sending after the...
Entering the Stanley Cup Playoffs, it was the Connor McDavid-led Edmonton Oilers who carried the shortest odds of ending Canada’s Stanley Cup...
Another first-round exit. Another elimination by way of the Boston Bruins. Another Game 7 failure. You don’t have to have spent 30 years around the...
The Toronto Maple Leafs’ power play is horrifyingly bad. Though it’s just one of many reasons why Sheldon Keefe’s team is facing elimination on...
Last October, I again forecasted a Vancouver Canucks playoff berth — something I had done in the prior two seasons, getting unceremoniously...
Do the Los Angeles Kings have the weaponry to slow down the Edmonton Oilers and pull off a first-round upset? It’s a question increasingly on my...
As your resident American hockey writer here at TSN, I’m minimally qualified to discuss which southern markets may make sense for expansion and...
It’s hard to remember a National Hockey League season, at least in recent history, that featured a more fascinating Hart Trophy race than the one...
There has been a decisive uptick in discussion about National Hockey League expansion in recent weeks. And we aren’t merely talking affiliate...
The Vancouver Canucks were aggressive in their January pursuit of forward Elias Lindholm, sending a major package — headlined by winger Andrei...
If you love end-of-season hockey and compelling playoff races, a free tip for the final weeks of the season: ignore the Eastern Conference and set...
We are about three weeks from the start of the 2023-24 Stanley Cup Playoffs, and it looks like Canada will send four teams to the postseason. Those...
Is this postseason the best opportunity for a Toronto Maple Leafs breakthrough, or are we a few weeks away from yet another earlier-than-expected...
Another trade deadline has passed, once again defined by general manager Kelly McCrimmon and the ultra-aggressive Vegas Golden Knights. While there...
Just 55 goals shy of Wayne Gretzky’s all-time record, it seems it won’t be long before Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin will be...
Welcome to trade deadline week! While much of this year’s focus has been spent on possible defensive upgrades for playoff contenders, I want to...
One of the early signs that a team is preparing to launch itself out of the depths of a deep rebuild comes when a young core at the top of the lineup...