Islanders defenseman Matthew Schaefer remains the clear favorite, but a consensus top four has also now developed.

Patrick Kane scored his 500th NHL goal on Thursday, and the Detroit Red Wings veteran continues to produce offensively and ...

Ottawa Senators defenseman Jake Sanderson led the position in 20-plus mph speed bursts (263 in 88 games) during the 2025 ...

The Vancouver Canucks have officially hit the halfway point of the 2025–26 NHL season. At the beginning of the year, many ...

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The NHL Winter Classic is an annual hockey game that has taken place since 2008. Learn more about its history, all-time ...

How we rank: A panel of ESPN hockey commentators, analysts, reporters and editors sends in a 1-32 poll based on the games ...

Throughout this past week, EA Sports NHL 26 released the ratings of each team’s top 10 players. In other words, they revealed 320 player ratings. Along with these overall ratings, EA Sports has also ...

Montreal Canadiens defenseman Lane Huston has been putting up numbers that have amazed critics and have placed him among the ...

Fiddling around with early-season NHL statistics is a risky game. It can inspire some takes that end up looking ludicrous later in the season. We don’t want to declare Tom Wilson a candidate to become ...

Understanding when to put stock into early-season NHL statistics comes down to recency bias versus confirmation bias. Recency bias in perceiving the numbers and trends means being swayed by the “What ...