The NHL trade deadline is less than a week away, and the market is starting to heat up. The Colorado Avalanche just acquired defenseman Ryan Lindgren from the New York Rangers, and there will be more moves in the coming days. Lindgren has spent all seven seasons of his NHL career with the Rangers, and … Read more
The wait for a JT Miller trade is finally over. The Vancouver Canucks have dealt the veteran forward to the New York Rangers in exchange for Filip Chytil and a conditional first-round pick. Defenseman Erik Brannstrom and prospect Jack Dorrington also went to New York while defenseman Victor Mancini went to Vancouver. This will be … Read more
BOSTON — With 11:42 remaining in overtime, Connor McDavid winged a shot from the slot past Connor Hellebuyck to give Canada a 3-2 win over Team USA on Thursday in the 4 Nations Face-Off championship game at TD Garden. McDavid took a Mitch Marner pass out of the corner and snapped the puck over Hellebuyck’s … Read more
The championship matchup everyone was anticipating is set as Canada faces the United States in the final of the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off on Thursday. The tournament, which features only NHL players and also included teams representing Sweden and Finland, replaced the annual NHL All-Star Game this year as the league prepares to allow players … Read more
Yahoo Sports’ great basketball columnist, Vincent Goodwill, summed up the vibe at the just completed — and mostly listless — NBA All-Star weekend as such: “You can’t manufacture soul.” This came two weeks after the NFL staged a flag-football game with their Pro Bowlers that was about as exciting as tax preparation. (The highlight may … Read more
Feb 10, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Instead of having an All-Star Game this season, the NHL and NHLPA are staging the 4 Nations Face-Off, which will run from Feb. 12 through Feb. 20. This is a round-robin tournament that will feature four national teams — Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United States — with NHL … Read more
Reuben Polansky-Shapiro/NHLI via Getty Images A new international hockey tournament calls for new goalie masks. Some of the masks that will be worn by netminders during the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off in Montreal and Boston were revealed Friday. Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck will represent Team USA in a custom red, white and blue mask … Read more
It’s Super Bowl week, and the focus is on New Orleans to see whether the Kansas City Chiefs can pull it off for a third straight time or if the Philadelphia Eagles can win for the first time since 2018. In honor of one of the biggest sporting events in the world, we decided to … Read more
Greg WyshynskiFeb 4, 2025, 09:20 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. The NHL’s most valuable player award winners usually have one thing in common: They aren’t goaltenders or defensemen. There are all sorts of justifications for the Hart Trophy almost exclusively going to forwards: Like the fact that goalies and defensemen … Read more
We are now exactly 10 weeks away from the NHL’s March 7 trade deadline. That leaves enough runway for the needs of buyers and sellers to shift before the biggest decisions are made — or for buyers and sellers to switch places. But in a season where there’s already been plenty of trade action, it’s … Read more