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Bruins slide, Sens rise as postseason picture shifts in Atlantic

The Boston Bruins are in a free fall, the Ottawa Senators are playing their best hockey in years, and the Battle of Ontario is definitively on the...

04.02.2025 2

Travis Yost

Oilers, Golden Knights in full sprint to the finish line

Some division races matter more than others. Out in the Pacific, the Edmonton Oilers are turning up the heat on their arch nemesis in the Vegas Golden...

28.01.2025 10

Travis Yost

McCabe playing a vital, valuable role for Maple Leafs

Where would the Toronto Maple Leafs be without Jake McCabe? Two seasons ago, the Maple Leafs acquired McCabe in a multi-player deal with the Chicago...

21.01.2025 10

Travis Yost

Who wants the final wild-card berth in the Western Conference?

Who wants the final wild-card berth in the Western Conference playoff race? Past the halfway part of the regular season, and with the trade deadline...

14.01.2025 5

Travis Yost

Ovechkin’s production continues to amaze

When it comes to professional sports, the concept of aging gracefully reads better on paper than it does in practice. Competition at the highest...

07.01.2025 6

Travis Yost

Special teams are killing the Islanders

It’s not often I use this space to discuss the New York Islanders, a team that has been stuck on the treadmill of mediocrity as an organization for...

31.12.2024 4

Travis Yost

Dynamic young duos leading the way for Sens, Utah

There aren’t many connecting points for the Ottawa Senators and Utah Hockey Club, two National Hockey League teams nearly 3,000 kilometres apart....

24.12.2024 1

Travis Yost

Wolf’s impressive start helps keep Flames afloat

The Calgary Flames did not enter the 2024-25 season with lofty postseason hopes. Deep organizational rebuilds intended to increase salary cap...

17.12.2024 9

Travis Yost

Caufield, Suzuki need some help

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...

11.12.2024 10

Travis Yost

Berube has brought defensive balance to Maple Leafs

There are few things less comfortable for an organization than losing a superstar player to injury. So, you can imagine the trepidation the Toronto...

02.12.2024 4

Travis Yost

Chabot cementing himself as a top NHL defenceman

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...

25.11.2024 1

Travis Yost

Sluggish Oilers plagued by three problem areas

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 starting...

18.11.2024 5

Travis Yost

Yost: Hronek and Hughes making their case as NHL's top blueline duo

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...

11.11.2024 4

Travis Yost

Extraordinarily bad defence sinks Sharks and Habs

The Montreal Canadiens and San Jose Sharks may be thousands of kilometres apart geographically, but there are a striking number of similarities...

04.11.2024 4

Travis Yost

Sputtering power play limits Leafs’ ceiling

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...

28.10.2024 3

Travis Yost

High-flying Jets thriving early with up-tempo style

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...

21.10.2024 4

Travis Yost

The numbers behind another slow start for the Oilers

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...

15.10.2024 2

Travis Yost

Ovechkin could soon go from chaser to chased

Few storylines this season will rival Alexander Ovechkin’s chase for the NHL’s all-time goal scoring record, famously held by the venerable Wayne...

07.10.2024 3

Travis Yost

Leafs need Nylander to prove he can drive second line

William Nylander’s skeptics have been effectively silenced over the past three seasons. The dynamic Swede finally found a scoring touch to couple...

01.10.2024 5

Travis Yost

Ullmark should help Senators put Atlantic Division on notice

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...

23.09.2024 1

Travis Yost

There’s less parity in the NHL than you think

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...

16.09.2024 2

Travis Yost

Considering an unlikely Crosby trade

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...

03.09.2024 2

Travis Yost

NHL players preparing for labour uncertainty with lockout-protected contracts

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...

26.08.2024 2

Travis Yost

Laine trade worth short-term gamble

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...

19.08.2024 2

Travis Yost

Canada has questions in the crease ahead of 4 Nations Face-Off

Recency bias or not, the Paris 2024 Olympics felt like the most compelling international competition in recent history. From a shot heard ‘round...

12.08.2024 3

Travis Yost

A potent power play has never been more important

The National Hockey League’s heightened scoring era appears here to stay. With that comes one of several inescapable new realities for front...

06.08.2024 1

Travis Yost

Guhle deal part of a longer-term trend across the NHL

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...

31.07.2024 3

Travis Yost

Kings positioned to be an offer sheet target

Quietly, the Los Angeles Kings have been navigating a challenging off-season with regards to the salary cap. Their current financial inflexibility...

15.07.2024 7

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Wolf’s impressive start helps keep Flames afloat

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Caufield, Suzuki need some help

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Yost: Hronek and Hughes making their case as NHL's top blueline duo

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Extraordinarily bad defence sinks Sharks and Habs

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