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Canada ending its NHL title drought? AP predicts the Stanley Cup champion and top award winners
The NHL season begins in Prague, makes a stop in Finland in November and there are more than 1,200 games to be played around North America. The Florida Panthers raise their first Stanley Cup championship banner and the Utah Hockey Club plays its first game since moving from Arizona...
From the Stanley Cup champion Panthers and beyond, the NHL is shooting for another best season ever
Aleksander Barkov lifted the Stanley Cup over his head, passed it around to his Panthers teammates and hockey's holy grail got a new home in South Florida. The next morning, Matthew Tkachuk gave it a saltwater bath in the Atlantic Ocean. Commissioner Gary Bettman woke up after what...
NHL season has international flavor with the 4 Nations Face-off as a Winter Olympics appetizer
Nico Hischier grew up in Switzerland dreaming of playing in the Winter Olympics. “I’ve never gotten to experience that,” he said. The countdown is underway for Hischier, who hopes to join the NHL's best at the Olympics in Milan in February 2026. This season...
McDavid and Oilers top a Pacific Division that features a mix of contending and rebuilding teams
Playoff MVP Connor McDavid can’t shake the memory of what now-former Edmonton GM Ken Holland told the team after falling one win short of winning the Stanley Cup. The Game 7 loss to Florida in June caused Holland to reflect on the disappointment he still felt from his time in...
Sharks' Celebrini and Smith and Canadiens' Slafkovsky headline the NHL's next generation of stars
Juraj Slafkovsky was an NHL draft pick, just like Alex Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby, Auston Matthews, Nathan MacKinnon, Connor McDavid and Connor Bedard. The spotlight, however, has not been quite as bright or the hype train as strong for him in Montreal. “I like it that way,”...
Oilers sign Leon Draisaitl to an 8-year extension worth $112 million
Leon Draisaitl had a hard time picturing himself playing in the NHL wearing anything but an Edmonton Oilers jersey, and the result of that is a long-term commitment to the organization's pursuit of the Stanley Cup as the highest-paid player in hockey. Draisaitl on Tuesday signed an...
Slovakia sets its sights on qualifying for the Olympics with NHL players back for the Milan Games
PRAGUE (AP) — In the days leading up to Slovakia's chance to return to the Olympics, coach Craig Ramsay made sure to remind players what is at stake. “We want to defend our medal and maybe look for something even better, and we should be thinking that way,” Ramsay said this...
Oilers hire Bowman as GM less than 3 years since he resigned after Blackhawks sexual assault scandal
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Stan Bowman made a promise upon his NHL return. “These things will never happen on my watch again,” Bowman said Wednesday after the Edmonton Oilers hired him as their new general manager and vice president of hockey operations. Bowman is...
