Greg WyshynskiFeb 4, 2025, 09:20 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. The NHL’s most valuable player award winners usually have one thing in common: They aren’t goaltenders or defensemen. There are all sorts of justifications for the Hart Trophy almost exclusively going to forwards: Like the fact that goalies and defensemen […]
David Kirouac/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Morgan Frost is a middle-six center who plays a 200-foot game. The 2017 first-round pick likes to get a lot of touches on the puck in the defensive and neutral zones. I like his skating and he has good spatial awareness and a nice touch on the puck. Those […]
Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Even if a team knows it’s headed for an unwanted divorce from a star player who’s been in the organization for a decade, it typically exhausts every possibility before conceding defeat. For the Avalanche to give up on re-signing Rantanen in January must indicate that the two sides were very […]
Greg WyshynskiJan 23, 2025, 06:18 PM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Utah Hockey Club said it still expects to announce a permanent name and identity before the 2025-26 NHL season despite having “Utah Yetis” refused by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. “Since acquiring Utah’s NHL team, we have been carefully […]
Richard A. Whittaker/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is the longest-tenured chief executive across all North American professional sports leagues all time at 32 years, but his time at the helm may be coming to a close soon. Minnesota Wild owner Craig Leipold revealed that news on the latest edition of The […]
Connor McDavid was assessed a three-game suspension for a cross-check to the head of Conor Garland … [+] on Jan. 18, 2025. (Photo by Derek Cain/Getty Images) Getty Images Even the great ones have to serve their time if they do the crime. This week, Connor McDavid is missing three games after he cross-checked Conor […]
Greg Wyshynski, Senior NHL writerJan 7, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Some NHL awards races are actual races. There are leaders, but ones who are looking over their shoulders at a pack of candidates closing in fast. Other NHL awards races currently look at lot like when Michael […]
Getty Images On a rainy Saturday at Wrigley Field, The St. Louis Blues rolled past the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2025 NHL Winter Classic, 6-2. The Blues lit up the scoreboard, and that outburst of offense came from the defense. The St. Louis defensemen got things started early when Cam Fowler scored a power play […]
Joel Auerbach/Getty Images The New York Rangers will be without their goaltender for a bit of time after an injury. Per The Athletic’s Arthur Staplethe Rangers are placing Igor Shesterkin on injured reserve due to an upper-body injury. With Shesterkin landing on the IR, the team announced that it has recalled goaltender Louis Domingue from […]
It wasn’t just a biological thing. It wasn’t just what are you eating, what are you putting in your body, what’s going on underneath the surface. It was a big learning experience, as far as emotions and energy and perspective. My attitude, my perspective towards everything in my life, and even the game of hockey, […]
