Bryce Harper's allegiance is with his hometown Vegas Golden Knights in the Stanley Cup Final.
The time-honoured tradition of booing Gary Bettman as he presents the Stanley Cup ti the winning team may come to an end this year.
Picking two players critical to seeing the Vegas Golden Knights and Washington Capitals move on.
Alex Ovechkin is finally going to the promised land.
James Neal hailed the home crowd after the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Winnipeg Jets in Game 4 in the Western Conference Final.
The Vegas Golden Knights are one win away from the Stanley Cup thanks to Reilly Smith's late snipe in Game 4 of the Western Conference Final.
Sure Ovechkin and Kuznetsov have been getting the job done for the Capitals, but so has their secondary scoring.
One visit to T-Mobile Arena is all you need to understand what makes the Vegas Golden Knights a force on home ice.
Golden Knights practice is anything but ordinary. It's exactly what one might expect from Vegas.
The NHL and it's executives respond to the Supreme Court's ruling of legalized sports gambling across the United States of America.
The legendary Jaromir Jagr is returning for one more season of professional hockey.
No one would convict him of diving, but Victor Hedman has a knack for drawing phantom penalties. While much has been said about the officiating throughout the NHL playoffs, a first-period call against the Capitals in Game 2 on Sunday is sure to keep the complaints rolling in. Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman, who is starting to develop a knack for drawing phantom penalties, was involved in a call that the referees probably regretted as soon as they saw the replay.
The four remaining teams in the Stanley Cup playoffs all made moves at the trade deadline that are paying dividends now.
Building the Winnipeg Jets into an elite team, Kevin Cheveldayoff deserves more credit than he's received.
For the Tampa Bay Lightning, these were two seconds they would prefer to have back.
These four players were instrumental to their team's success in the semifinals and they'll be counted on to do the same in the conference finals.
Winnipeg Jets star Mark Scheifele set an NHL record with seven goals on the road in a single postseason series.
Two costly technical mistakes were costly for Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne.
Bruins forward Brad Marchand admits he needs to do a better job keeping himself in check.
Evgeny Kuznetsov was flapping his wings after he scored the Game 6 overtime winner to eliminate the Penguins and lift Washington to the Eastern Conference final for just the third time in franchise history and first since 1998.
Marc-Andre Fleury isn't the only reason the Golden Knights are halfway to a Stanley Cup in their first season.
A Las Vegas resort took a jab at the San Jose Sharks ahead of Game 6.
Bruins forward Brad Marchand was up to his old tricks in Game 4 when he licked Ryan Callahan of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
This week's Puck Daddy Bag of Mail focuses on Tom Wilson's controversial hit, and whether or not the NHL is getting its disciplinary action right.
Capitals' Tom Wilson will be suspended three games for his hit on Penguins forward Aston-Reese.
The Washington Capitals forward needs to be suspended for his hit on Pittsburgh's Zach Aston-Reese.
Alex Ovechkin pulled off his best Sidney Crosby impression to seal the win for Washington in Game 3.
The Pittsburgh Penguins honoured a member of the Humboldt Broncos at Game 3 of their series against the Washington Capitals.
Given my love for hockey, it was a no-brainer that I’d purchase season tickets when the NHL announced it had expanded to Las Vegas.
Everyone in Las Vegas is delirious about the Golden Knights, and how great would it be for Sin City if the team went all the way and won the Stanley Cup? “This would be a punch to the face,” says Jay Kornegay. Kornegay is vice president of race and sportsbook operations at the Westgate In Las Vegas.
Chris Kelly, who captained Canada in the PyeongChang Winter Games, joins a growing list of 2018 Olympians that are finding new homes in the NHL.
If Slava Voynov still played in the NHL, he’d probably have watched the Olympic gold medal game at home on TV. The former Los Angeles Kings defenseman scored first for the Russians with less than a second remaining in the first period.
When Germany and the Olympic Athletes from Russia face off on Sunday for gold, they will do so with a massive caveat.
Pittsburgh Penguins host carnival night, naturally bringing attention to Phil Kessel.
Russian president Vladimir Putin should send a bottle of his finest vodka to the NHL commissioner, as he’s a frontrunner for MVP of this Olympic tournament. The fallout from Bettman’s decision to keep NHL players home from South Korea is pretty simple: the Russian team is head-and-shoulders above all other opponents here. The American forwards did everything they could to win, through regulation and overtime and in the final ill-fated showdown, but when your breakout players are student-athlet
Swiss forward Cody Almond delivered a brutal hit to the head of Germany's Christian Ehrhoff just nine seconds into the game.
Rasmus Dahlin is very likely to hear his name called first at the 2018 NHL Draft. Rasmus Dahlin has an incredibly bright future ahead of him. The 17-year-old is the overwhelming favorite to be selected No. 1 overall in the 2018 NHL Draft.
The Vegas Golden Knights put on in-game wedding, adding to legendary season at T-Mobile Arena.
When the National Hockey League began balking at sending its players to these Olympics, the International Olympic Committee tried to play hardball. The NHL didn’t budge and held its players out of the Games for the first time since 1998, citing a disinterest in shutting down its regular season for about two and a half weeks. After two lackluster days of the Olympic tournament, once an electrifying, star-studded event, the IOC should forget tough negotiations.
Gary Bettman handed Russia a gold medal on a silver platter and now you wonder if it is just going to blow it like always. Slovakia defeated Russia 3-2 in the men’s hockey opener at these Olympics, and to call this humiliating for the Russians doesn’t do it justice.
"Gotta pay for skating somehow!" Nagasu tweeted on Monday.
Local Olympics organizers needed help maintaining the ice for hockey games. So they asked the NHL to send its best technicians.
Although sometimes forgotten, backup goalies have a role on the team too. Here are the top five backup goalies in the NHL.
For those of us who aren’t talented or athletic enough to have qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, there is still a way to get a taste of winning the gold — and it’s much, much easier.
Sean Burke discusses his journey and how his experience lends itself to the challenge of choosing Canada's Olympic team.
The Clagary Flames' arena problem remains unresolved.
Not only do the Flyers finally know the way to San Jose, but they now also know the best mode of transportation to get here and to get the job done. The “Wayne Train” delivered the cargo as he became the first Flyer in franchise history to score a hat trick on opening night. Two of those were vintage Simmonds parking the caboose in front of the goaltender and redirecting shots from the point.
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The president of the Pyeongchang Olympic organizing committee is still hoping for an NHL U-turn. “I don’t think they made the final decision so far,” committee president Lee Hee-beom said Monday at a news conference. Last month, the NHL announced that it will not stop its season to allow players to compete at the Feb. 9-25 Olympics for the first time in 20 years.
The Nashville Predators are one win away from sweeping the top-ranked team in the Western Conference coming into the post-season.