The Ducks announced they’ve signed center Ryan Poehling to a four-year extension. It carries an average annual value of $3.75MM for a total value of $15MM, Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet reports. He’s now under contract through the 2029-30 season. Poehling, 27, would have been an unrestricted free agent this summer. He’s in the back half of a … Read more
March 2, 2026Updated 9:24 am EST Mere days away from the NHL’s trade deadline, the market is starting to feel like an unstoppable force versus an immovable object. There will be trades, of course, before the bell sounds at 3 p.m. ET on Friday, but multiple league sources indicated over the weekend that the level … Read more
IRVINE, Calif. – Radko Gudas ended up as the center of attention in an Olympic quarterfinal hockey game, for all the wrong reasons. Gudas acknowledged on Tuesday that he used what is considered a homophobic slur during the Czech Republic’s game against Canada last week, and apologized during an interview with The Athletic. In that … Read more
The Athletic has live coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics. In the years between Sochi in 2014 and Milan in 2026, when NHL players did not participate in the Olympics, the men’s hockey tournament was a lot more wide open. Russia beat Germany in the gold-medal game in Pyeongchang in 2018, and Finland knocked off … Read more
There’s no question that the New York Rangers are looking to move pending unrestricted free agent Artemi Panarin before today’s 3 p.m. CT Olympic roster freeze. A handful of teams have already been prominently linked to Panarin, and a recent update from David Pagnotta alerted that the situation remains incredibly fluid, lowering the chances of … Read more
This article is part of our NHL Arena Rankings series, in which we rank all 32 current rinks and present stories about memorable rinks of the past and present. What makes a great NHL arena? Is there a science to it? Or is there something intangible that makes a building special? Throughout my career, I’ve … Read more
The NHL’s sellers are all selling. They’ve helped create a steady drip of trade activity ahead of the Olympic roster freeze, which takes effect Feb. 4 and runs 18 days throughout the Milan Cortina Games. The New York Rangers made their first of what’s expected to be multiple moves, trading Carson Soucy across town to … Read more
With 22 days left before the men’s hockey tournament kicks off at the 2026 Winter Olympics, Team Sweden has been hit with a double-whammy of bad injury news. Star forward Leo Carlsson and top-four defenseman Jonas Brodin are both expected to miss the tournament with injuries head coach Sam Hallam told Sweden’s Hockey Sverige. The … Read more
The NHL season has passed its midway point, with all 32 teams playing between 46 and 49 games. By now, we generally know what each team is and isn’t and whether the rest of the season should be focused on title contention, short-term progress or the long-term future. What better time to break out our … Read more
Dallas – June 2, 2024 – The Dallas Stars are facing a cap crunch that may force them to trade key player, Jason Robertson, according to reports. Following extensions given to Wyatt johnston and Mikko Rantanen, the Stars have less than $5 million in cap space. This news has sparked speculation about how the team … Read more