NHL weekend rankings: 5 surprising early stories I’m not buying quite yet
You have to love the early weeks of an NHL season. One week ago, in our first rankings…
NHL Power Rankings: We’re back and we’re already wrong
Welcome back to another season of The Athletic’s NHL Power Rankings, brought to you by your two favorite…
Islanders’ Jonathan Drouin To Have Player Safety Hearing
1:20 p.m.: It’s a one-game suspension for Drouin, the league announced. In DOPS’ video explanation of their decision, they…
NHL 2025-26 season predictions: Stars as Stanley Cup champs? Connor McDavid as MVP?
By Sean Gentille, Jesse Granger, Shayna Goldman, James Mirtle, Mark Lazerus and The Athletic NHL Staff After two…
Demidov, Avalanche, Drouin, Benoit, Jets
In one of the more violent preseason contests in recent memory, the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens combined…
Snapshots: Price, Prokhorov, PHR Chat
The Canadiens are reportedly intent on moving the contract of LTIR-bound goaltender Carey Price as it enters its final…
NHL free-agency report cards: Grading every team’s early offseason moves
Four days into NHL free agency, the list of impact players remaining on the market is … not…
Ranking the NHL’s top 40 free agents of 2026: Connor McDavid, Kirill Kaprizov and more
So, with Nikolaj Ehlers signing with the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday, we’re close to being through all of…