The only hat trick of Georges Laraque's 695-game career is remembered as a gift. The clock says the gift went to Janne Niinimaa thirteen seconds earlier, and that Laraque had to beat a goalie for his.
Almost everyone treats the NHL's upper-body and lower-body language as a privacy rule the clubs are stuck with. Article 34 of the collective bargaining agreement says the opposite, in plain words, and it has said so since 2013.
We called Florida's crease overhaul a repricing. The reported numbers say the Panthers landed on the identical $6 million cap hit they offered Bobrovsky, then paid three roster forwards on top of it.
The Leafs are the only NHL roster with nothing coming off the books for two full seasons. The interesting part is not the trivia. It is what the collective bargaining agreement charges for every other way out.
Two Selkes, three Lady Byngs, a Messier Award, and two Cup springs nobody in the NHL outscored him in, without a Conn Smythe. The statue is the first honor of Kopitar's career that does not describe him by his job.
The eighth year is not a player's right. It is a team's option, it expires on September 15, and Pittsburgh just spent its own on a winger with 47 NHL games behind him.
Gary Bettman gave Texas a date. Nobody has given it a building. Read the 2029-30 target as a construction schedule instead of a preference and the whole story changes.
Three star pursuits this summer, zero closed, and $13.68M still sitting unspent. Pittsburgh's summer looks like a reputation problem and reads like a price problem, and only one of those has a fix.
The Wild gave up four pieces for a season and a half of Quinn Hughes. The extension everybody is treating as a separate decision is actually the second half of that trade's price, and it is the only thing that can still make the December deal look sane.
The Wild gave up four pieces for a season and a half of Quinn Hughes. The extension everybody is treating as a separate decision is actually the second half of that trade's price, and it is the only thing that can still make the December deal look sane.
Ten years ago Nashville moved its captain without asking him. That is the part of the Weber trade the new Josi pitch quietly borrows and cannot have. Weber's contract never carried a no-movement clause at all. Josi's does, to the end of the deal.
A market this hot is not supposed to stay this quiet. Five weeks after Darren Dreger counted six interested teams, nobody has traded for Alexander Nikishin. The reported price isn't the problem. The player Carolina wants to send with him is.
Bourque named two things when he was asked about the trade. Nashville has put the first one in writing. The second belongs to a power play that brings back 78 percent of the goals it scored last season.
Almost everyone treats the NHL's upper-body and lower-body language as a privacy rule the clubs are stuck with. Article 34 of the collective bargaining agreement says the opposite, in plain words, and it has said so since 2013.
We called Florida's crease overhaul a repricing. The reported numbers say the Panthers landed on the identical $6 million cap hit they offered Bobrovsky, then paid three roster forwards on top of it.
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