PITTSBURGH (AP) — Nikita Kucherov had two goals and an assist, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 on Sunday. Brandon Hagel also scored for the Lightning, and Anthony ...

At the midway mark of the 2024-25 season, are some awards already sewn up? We checked in with a panel of PHWA voters to check the temperature.

Crosby collected a goal and two assists to pass Joe Sakic for ninth on the league's all-time points list with 1,643. Sakic finished his Hall of Fame career with 1,641 points. Crosby also logged his 184th three-point game, breaking a tie with Phil Esposito and Mark Messier for fifth in NHL history.

What really happened between the Rangers and Canucks? How will Frank Vatrano's contract deferrals work? Elliotte Friedman covers that and more in a new 32 Thoughts blog.

This is the obvious one. Nathan MacKinnon leads the NHL with 68 points, seven more than Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl in second place. Also of note, he’s first in points per game at 1.58, narrowly ahead of the Art Ross winner last season, Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov at 1.57.

To mark the halfway point of the 2024-25 regular season, NHL.com is running its third installment of the Trophy Tracker series. Today, we look at the race for the Hart Trophy, given annually to the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team in the NHL as selected in a poll by the Professional Hockey Writers Association.

As you’ve likely heard by now, the Vancouver Canucks’ 2-0 shutout win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday did a lot for Quinn Hughes’s case for the Hart Trophy – the NHL’s regular-season MVP award.

With every team now having played 40+ games, it’s a great time to reflect on the season so far and look at some of the incredible performances we’ve seen from players around the league.

Jan. 18, 2025

Jan. 18, 2025

Ovechkin & Co. are back on top according to our voters. And at the midway point of the season, we identify the best fantasy player for all 32 clubs.

Through games of Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025