Every 2026 NHL Awards winner in one place: Kucherov over McDavid in a coin-flip Hart, Schaefer's unanimous Calder, Werenski's Norris, and Jo...
By Mike Johnson · 8 min read
Vegas reached Game 6 of the 2026 Cup Final, then handed itself a summer with about $4.6M in cap space to re-sign Pavel Dorofeyev, replace a...
By Mike Johnson · 9 min read
The highest-paid NHL players for 2026-27, ranked by cap hit. Kirill Kaprizov leads at a record $17M, Connor McDavid sits sixth by choice, an...
By Mike Johnson · 10 min read
How to watch the NHL in 2026-27: every channel (ESPN, ABC, TNT, NHL Network), every streaming option, the free routes, blackout traps, and t...
By Mike Johnson · 9 min read
The NHL 2026-27 season expands to 84 games, the first since 1993-94. Both new games are divisional. Here is why it changed, when it starts,...
By Mike Johnson · 10 min read
Round 1 is June 26 at 7 p.m. ET, Rounds 2-7 are June 27 — but the channel changes between days. The full how-to-watch guide for the 2026 NHL...
By Mike Johnson · 6 min read
A Yukon kid who dominated two leagues two years apart, now the consensus No. 1 for 2026. Inside Gavin McKenna's game, his NHL comps, and the...
By Mike Johnson · 9 min read
McKenna and Stenberg are the only two locks in a top-heavy class. Inside the projected 2026 first-round order, the big board, the cliff afte...
By Mike Johnson · 6 min read
A thin free-agent class makes 2026 about fit, not fame. The Need-Fit Map names all 32 teams' biggest hole and the realistic target who fills...
By Mike Johnson · 8 min read
A quarter-billion in unspent cap room sits across the NHL — and almost none of it belongs to a team that wants to win. The War Chest Index r...
By Mike Johnson · 10 min read
