Previous winners Cale Makar, Andrei Vasilevskiy and Ryan O’Reilly will each look to add more hardware to their shelves. The Conn Smythe is often tied to the team winning the Stanley Cup. You can check out teams’ odds of winning here. Here is a list of every player’s odds to win the Conn Smythe Trophy. […]
Continue readingThe 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs are almost here! The NHL’s 32 teams are down to just 16 in the postseason, with the opening games of the first round set to begin Saturday. Will the New York Rangers parlay their success in winning the Presidents’ Trophy to a championship — thus breaking the “curse” of that […]
Continue readingFinalists: Nathan MacKinnon, Auston Matthews, Nikita Kucherov (Likely) Winner: Nathan MacKinnon, C, Colorado Avalanche We still have another week and change to play out, but MacKinnon has a commanding enough lead that it’s probably safe to call it. Heading into Tuesday’s action, he has 280.8 fantasy points, leading Matthews by 13.9 points and Kucherov by […]
Continue readingAfter an 11-game Super Saturday, it’s a somewhat milder nine-game NHL Sunday. But the playoff implications of the contests are no less grand. Perhaps the most intriguing matchup is the late one, as the Dallas Stars visit the Colorado Avalanche (10 p.m. ET, ESPN). The Stars are three points ahead of the Avs, but Colorado […]
Continue readingTEMPE, Ariz. — Logan Cooley had his first NHL hat trick, Clayton Keller added a goal and three assists, and the Arizona Coyotes snapped the Nashville Predators’ point streak at 18 games with an 8-4 victory Thursday night. Nashville had been 16-0-2 since its last loss Feb. 15 at home against Dallas. It was the […]
Continue readingSEATTLE — Practically everyone in hockey has heard that the Nashville Predators’ trip to see U2 in February at the Sphere in Las Vegas was canceled because of how poorly the team was playing at that time. They’d lost six of eight games before the NHL All-Star break and would lose two of their next […]
Continue readingTo help you win a title in your league, we called in ESPN fantasy analysts Sean Allen and Victoria Matiash to highlight a prime playoff performer from each club — and in many cases, they are players who are available in a large majority of ESPN leagues. How we rank: A panel of ESPN hockey […]
Continue readingStarting next season, Novak will earn $3.5 million annually to become the sixth-highest paid player on the roster. The 26-year-old had been set to become an unrestricted free agent, as he was on a one-year deal worth $800,000. He joins Filip Forsberg, Roman Josi and Ryan O’Reilly as the only players on the Preds’ roster […]
Continue readingSteve Mayer, the NHL’s chief content officer, said there’s an aesthetic difference between the two. “The Winter Classic is more traditional, historic. It’s got that touch of snow — whether it’s real or fake,” he said. “The Stadium Series is a little more modern. Colorful, graphic-oriented, interactive.” But there’s also a spiritual difference. The Winter […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Nikita Kucherov goes first overall to Team Hughes in the NHL All-Star player draft. (0:29) TORONTO — Tampa Bay Lightning star Nikita Kucherov went No. 1 overall when the NHL staged its first player draft in nearly a decade Thursday night to kick off All-Star Weekend. The league convened four teams […]
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