Now that the NHL’s post-holiday break is over and hockey is back, one thing is clear – the best teams in the league are all in the Central Division – and the road to the Stanley Cup goes through the Central.

The 2025 season of the NHL presented moments that have become memorable even off the ice. Alex Ovechkin records the most goals of all time, Brad Marchand makes the Florida Panthers roar, Marc-Andre Fleury says goodbye,

Cooper’s 594 wins are second-most all-time through any coach’s first 1,000 games, trailing only another Hockey Hall of Fame member in Scotty Bowman, who collected 598 wins. He is the fifth coach in NHL history to reach 1,000 games for one franchise.

After a thrilling run to the Conference Final in 2017, Ottawa waited eight years, but finally tasted playoff hockey again in 2025.

Gary Bettman wanted parity in the NHL. He got it. And this is the year for the Avalanche to take advantage.  Let’s call the NHL what it is right now: mid. The amount of truly average teams in the league this season is astonishing.

Ahead of the 2026 Discover NHL Winter Classic at loanDepot park in Miami on Friday, Jan. 2, the National Hockey League will host a fan festival.

Editor’s note: Previous versions of the simulation were incorrectly calculating each team’s odds of reaching the conference finals and beyond. That error has been ...

After the Edmonton Oilers traded for a new starting netminder, we look at past NHL goalie trades that moved the needle the most.

Mark Streit's lifelong goal was to always play in the National Hockey League, and that mission was accomplished long ago. Upon retirement, though, the 2017 Stanley Cup champion wanted to stay in the league in a different way — as a business partner.

Andrew Ference, Adam McQuaid. Why he made it: Thomas’ peak was short, but what a peak it was. His run from 2008-12 was one of the best stretches ever by a goalie and his 2011 season of 35 wins, .938 save percentage and a 2.00 GAA is one of the best in franchise history. He won the Vezina Trophy in 2009 and 2011.