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Holy Shit, The Canadiens Traded P.K. Subban
Minutes after the Oilers sent Taylor Hall to the Devils for Adam Larsson, the Montreal Canadiens traded P.K. Subban to the Nashville Predators for Shea Weber in a one-for-one trade. The hockey stove is so fucking hot....

Oilers Trade Taylor Hall To Devils
The Edmonton Oilers are trading Taylor Hall to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for defenseman Adam Larsson. TSN broke the trade, and both teams have made it official....

Offer Sheet Drama Might Be My Favorite Part Of The NHL Calendar
There is nothing that gets hockey people riled up quite like offer sheets. Nothing. The mere rumor of their existence is enough to send fans clogging talk radio lines, and set GMs to vowing revenge and—quite literally—challenging each other to fights. Well, we’re two days away and I am fucking psych...

Quebec Taxpayers Spent Hundreds Of Millions On An NHL-Ready Arena And Didn't Get An NHL Team
The Videotron Centre was built with one goal in mind: to play host to the reborn Nordiques, because NHL expansion wasn’t going to consider Quebec City without a modern arena in place. Well, the arena exists, and Quebec City still isn’t getting an NHL team. Money well spent?...

If You Could Have A Do-Over On One NHL Draft Pick, Who Would It Be?
The NHL Draft is tonight, because the NHL is very good at scheduling events for nights no one will be home to watch it. Auston Matthews will go No. 1, Patrik Laine will go No. 2, Jesse Puljujarvi will go No. 3, and after that, the only sure thing is that some teams’ picks will fill them with regret ...

Potential Names For The Las Vegas NHL Team, Ranked
Las Vegas is getting an NHL franchise. Now it just needs a name. Owner Bill Foley loves the name “Black Knights” but that’s a bad name. Here are some better ones....

Man Who Discovered Hockey No-Shows NHL Awards
Anthony Holmes, the man who discovered that playoff hockey is fun, and then a month later discovered that the Blues will never win anything, was supposed to appear at Wednesday’s NHL Awards in Las Vegas. He never showed up. ...

The Panthers Will Pay Keith Yandle A Lot
NHL free agency doesn’t start until July 1, but the best available defenseman is already off the board. Keith Yandle, whose negotiating rights were acquired by the Panthers from the Rangers earlier this week, has signed a seven-year, $44.5 million contract to stay in Florida....

Las Vegas Is Getting An NHL Team
It’s official: the NHL’s Board of Governors has voted unanimously to expand to Las Vegas for the 2017-18 season. They’ll play in the Pacific Division. Quebec City’s application for a team has been deferred. ...

Winnipeg Jets Prospect Arrested, Tased After Allegedly Fighting A Cop At Disney World
Darren Kramer, a winger in the Winnipeg Jets organization who currently plays for the AHL’s Manitoba Moose, was arrested at approximately 1:16 a.m. Tuesday after allegedly fighting a police officer at Disney World and getting tased. According to police, Kramer scuffled with the officer so that his f...

The Maple Leafs Got A Goalie
It’s Frederik Andersen, late of the Ducks. The Leafs announced the deal today, the 26-year-old Danish netminder in exchange for a 2016 first-rounder (the Penguins’ pick, 30th overall, acquired in the Phil Kessel trade) and a second-rounder next year. Seems like a fine deal for both teams....

They Threw A Parade For Phil Kessel
The Pittsburgh Penguins held their Stanley Cup parade today, but really, all I care about is what Phil Kessel did....

The Blackhawks Made Another Painful Trade
The Stanley Cup is barely parading through the streets of Pittsburgh and hot motherfuckin’ stove season is already underway. The Blackhawks are shipping Teuvo Teravainen (he’s good) and Bryan Bickell (he’s bad) to the Hurricanes in exchange for a 2016 second-round pick and 2017 third-round pick (tha...

The Las Vegas NHL Team Is Going To Be Not Terrible
As decided by the executive committee last week—but not leaked until yesterday—the NHL is prepared to expand to Las Vegas for the 2017-18 season, assuming billionaire prospective owner Bill Foley and friends can come up with the $500 million expansion fee. (They can.) ...

Where Can The Sharks Go From Here?
The pessimists’ view—the Sharks fan’s view, perhaps, by this point—is that after all this, after two fantastic months, San Jose merely found a brand new form of dickpunch. They’ve lost every other way before, in every other round, but not until 2016 did the Sharks and their fans discover what it’s l...

What Will Phil Kessel Do On His Day With The Stanley Cup?
It’s tough to put a finger on exactly what the knock on Phil Kessel in Toronto was; it seemed to morph to fit whatever the Leafs’ deficiency was that week. Sometimes it was that he wasn’t a winner, sometimes he had a bad attitude. He wasn’t in shape, he didn’t make his teammates better, he wasn’t mo...

The Penguins Get The Cup They Deserved
Way back at the start of the season—2015 feels like forever ago—the Penguins were mediocre, slumping, solidly midtable, unable to score. They had top-level talent, the knock went, but were mortally lacking in depth. Mike Sullivan was coaching the AHL’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins; Matt Murray was...

Watch <i>Hockey Night In Canada's </i>NHL Season-Ending Montage
One of the best moments in sports media every season is the Hockey Night in Canada season-ending montage—an event that takes at least a bit of the edge of sadness off about the season being, you know, over. While the video lacks the shine we saw back when it was produced by CBC, it’s still a must-wa...

Pittsburgh Penguins Win Stanley Cup
The Pittsburgh Penguins claimed their fourth Stanley Cup tonight with a 3-1 win in San Jose, led again by a defense that mostly kept the Sharks from generating meaningful opportunities. ...

Gordie Howe Is The History Of Hockey
Eighty-eight years is a good long time to be on this planet. Thirty-four years is an incredible amount of time to be a professional hockey player. But, then, there’s a reason they called Gordie Howe “Mr. Hockey.”...