While a number of Canadians are trying to escape the cold weather this month, I actually enjoyed time in the cold, taking in ...

Some numbers have had great players wear them through history, others are not so lucky. Here are the greatest NHL players for each number.

From F to A-plus to everything in between, The Athletic's NHL staff hands out midseason grades to every team. Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Bruce Bennett, Thearon W. Henderson / Getty Images The NHL ...

The moment is coming fast. It has been 12 years since NHL players last participated in the Olympics, in Sochi in 2014, and now the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 is less than a month away.

The 2025-26 NHL season is more than halfway complete and plenty will be happening down the stretch. The biggest event will be overseas as the league shuts down to send its players to the Winter ...

We’ve passed the halfway point of the NHL season as we enter 2026, and the standings are as big a mess as we’ve ever seen at this point in the season. The Eastern Conference is one big mess with every ...

Now that we’ve just passed the halfway point of the NHL’s 2025-26 regular season, it’s fair to judge the teams that have been major disappointments this year. Sure, a bad week or two (or three) could ...

Alex Ovechkin surpassed Ron Francis for the second-most 20-goal seasons in NHL history and moved within one of Gordie Howe’s League record, reaching the milestone for the Washington Capitals in a 3-2 ...

Matthew Schaefer, the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NHL Draft, remains the clear Calder Trophy favorite. Bobby Goddin / Getty Images Each season at The Athletic, reporters Scott Wheeler and Harman Dayal ...

“I certainly hope so,” he told me Wednesday at “The Pitt” Season 2 premiere in Los Angeles. “I think that big organizations like that, sports organizations — we’ve seen things in the past, ...