The standings tell us that the 2025-26 NHL season is one of the most competitive in recent memory. History tells us that this is the most competitive playoff race we've had in the NHL shootout era, ...

The NHL paused its season on Feb. 6 to allow its players to compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. Some of them return as newly minted gold medalists. Some return as bitter runners-up. Many ...

For nearly two months, the National Hockey League has kept the teams in its postseason tournament inside "bubbles" that it helped construct with the NHL Players' Association in an effort to safely ...

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) The joyful yells from the bench could be heard in the empty arena in the final seconds and the roar from players when Commissioner Gary Bettman called for Steven Stamkos to ...

My favorite thing about the "return to play" documents released by the NHL and the NHLPA this week-- besides the whole "here's a way to bring hockey back this summer" thing -- is the subtle renaming ...

NHL Network knows who the best players are in the League right now. They will reveal their lists in a nine-episode series that runs through the start of the regular season. The first episode is Sunday ...

The NHL playoff bubble is pretty much the size of that one Glinda flies around in during "Wicked." Heading into Tuesday night, no team in the East was more than four points out of the wild-card spot.

The NHL Bubble Watch is our monthly check-in on the Stanley Cup playoff races using playoff probabilities from The Athletic's Dom Luszczyszyn, Stathletes and Money Puck for all 32 teams. We utilize ...

The NHL Bubble Watch is our monthly check-in on the Stanley Cup playoff races using probabilities from Stathletes and Money Puck for all 32 teams. We also utilize stats from the NHL, Natural Stat ...

The NHL Bubble Watch is our monthly check-in on the Stanley Cup playoff races using playoff probabilities and points projections from Stathletes for all 32 teams. We also reveal which teams shouldn't ...