The standings tell us that the 2025-26 NHL season is one of the most competitive in recent memory. History tells us that this is the most competitive playoff race we've had in the NHL shootout era, ...

The NHL paused its season on Feb. 6 to allow its players to compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. Some of them return as newly minted gold medalists. Some return as bitter runners-up. Many ...

For nearly two months, the National Hockey League has kept the teams in its postseason tournament inside "bubbles" that it helped construct with the NHL Players' Association in an effort to safely ...

NHL Network knows who the best players are in the League right now. It will reveal its lists in a nine-episode series that runs through the start of the regular season. The second episode is Sunday at ...

The NHL playoff bubble is pretty much the size of that one Glinda flies around in during "Wicked." Heading into Tuesday night, no team in the East was more than four points out of the wild-card spot.

The NHL Bubble Watch is our monthly check-in on the Stanley Cup playoff races using playoff probabilities from The Athletic's Dom Luszczyszyn, Stathletes and Money Puck for all 32 teams. We utilize ...

The NHL Bubble Watch is our monthly check-in on the Stanley Cup playoff races using probabilities from Stathletes and Money Puck for all 32 teams. We also utilize stats from the NHL, Natural Stat ...