Category: NHL

The Pittsburgh Penguins still have productive wingers, but the NHL Network’s latest ranking suggests they do not have an elite one. NHL Network released its top 20 wingers entering the 2026-27 season, and no Penguins made the list. That left Bryan Rust and Rickard Rakell outside the league’s highest tier despite both remaining effective around…

The Detroit Red Wings are one of the most decorated franchises in National Hockey League history. Throughout the years, a vast collection of top-tier talent has donned the Winged Wheel, which has led to the creation of some legendary line combinations. While each decade of Red Wings’ hockey has produced worthy candidates, I’ve tried to…

The Vancouver Canucks finished the 2025-26 campaign with the NHL’s worst record. They didn’t score enough goals, and then lost a bunch of the players who helped them score the goals they did get. That’s not the easiest way to improve an offence. The obvious question is: where are those goals supposed to come from now?…

Every NHL team needs players who provide good value for money or outplay their salaries, and the Winnipeg Jets are no exception. General manager Kevin Cheveldayoff has locked up quite few players to relatively team-friendly deals and has no albatross contracts (at least compared to some other clubs) hindering him. Here, we’ll dive into the…

Heading into the upcoming 2026-27 season, Carolina Hurricanes’ netminder Pyotr Kochetkov is in an interesting place. After missing most of the 2025-26 season, he enters the final year of his four-year, $8 million deal, which pays him $2 million annually. He finished last season with a 6-2-0 record with a 2.33 goals-against average (GAA), a .899 save percentage…

The Montreal Canadiens just ran into a better team. As far as heartbreaks go, the upstart Habs losing to the eventual-Stanley Cup champion-Carolina Hurricanes in Round 3, even in just five games, was fairly tame. It might have hurt in the moment, but, looking at the defeat as objectively as possible, it should be hard…

One of the biggest reasons the Montreal Canadiens have been able to build such a promising roster is Kent Hughes’ willingness to be proactive. Rather than waiting for players to reach unrestricted free agency or put together career years, the Canadiens’ general manager has often looked to get deals done early. The long-term extensions for…

Melvin Fernstrom’s first full season under contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins included a disappointing start, an encouraging restart and an injury that prevented a definitive evaluation. The Penguins traded Marcus Pettersson and Drew O’Connor to the Vancouver Canucks in January 2025 for Danton Heinen, Vincent Desharnais, Fernstrom and a conditional first-round pick – that selection…

The Pittsburgh Penguins have reached August with enough salary-cap space to solve someone else’s problem. PuckPedia projects Pittsburgh to have roughly $13.7 million in available space under the NHL’s $104 million ceiling. The Penguins also have a full 23-player roster and 47 of their 50 standard player contracts committed, meaning president of hockey operations and…

10. James Hagens, F, Boston Bruins 9. Ilya Protas, F, Washington Capitals 8. Jacob Fowler, G, Montreal Canadiens 7. Cole Hutson, D, Washington Capitals 6. Konsta Helenius, F, Buffalo Sabres 5. Roman Kantserov, F, Chicago Blackhawks 4. Anton Frondell, F, Chicago Blackhawks 3. Ivar Stenberg, F, San Jose Sharks 2. Gavin McKenna, F, Toronto Maple…