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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...
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...
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...
When it comes to professional sports, the concept of aging gracefully reads better on paper than it does in practice. Competition at the highest...
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...
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 starting...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 National Hockey League’s heightened scoring era appears here to stay. With that comes one of several inescapable new realities for front...
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...
Quietly, the Los Angeles Kings have been navigating a challenging off-season with regards to the salary cap. Their current financial inflexibility...