Following a 5-0 shelling of Czechia to open their 2026 Winter Olympics tournament, the Canadian men’s hockey team get right back at it Friday, taking on Switzerland at 3:10 p.m. EST/12:10 p.m. PST. It’s always significant when Team Canada takes the ice in Olympic hockey, but these 2026 Games promise to be more special than … Read more
By Brian La Rose | at February 7, 2026 11:11 am While there wasn’t much trade activity leading into the Olympic trade freeze, one of the biggest moves of the season was made when the Kings acquired winger Artemi Panarin from the Rangers in exchange for prospect winger Liam Greentree along with a 2026 conditional … 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
A trade market is neatly coming together after the New York Rangers announced their plan to hold star winger Artemi Panarin out of the lineup until the Olympic break. Nearly every team in the league is weighing their chances to land the former 100-point scorer, though some are getting caught up on the contingency that … 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
It’s already known that winger Evander Kane won’t finish the year with the Vancouver Canucks since the team allowed his agent to negotiate a trade to another organization. Still, Kane has yet to be moved. Most of the interest in Kane is coming from the Western Conference, where he may prefer to remain. The Colorado … 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
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
Welcome to my 2025 NHL Draft board! This final top 100 ranking, presented and packaged within our sortable user interface, follows my way-too-early top 28, my preseason top 32, my preliminary top 64, my February top 64, my March top 64 and my May top 64. My year-end ranking is made up of 66 forwards (36 … Read more