NHL

The Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Montreal Canadiens in Game 1 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup semifinal playoff series Monday.

PWHPA executive Jayna Hefford is forging ahead with a bid to establish an economically sustainable professional league in North America with or without the NHL’s full financial backing.

The Seattle Kraken are free to make trades and sign players after making their final expansion payment to the NHL. Seattle owners paid $650 million to become the 32nd franchise.

The Vancouver Canucks have had their games postponed through April 6. The games against Calgary was postponed due positive tests of two Canuck players and a coach for COVID-19.

The NHL is back and playing albeit to empty arenas. Part of the pageantry of NHL hockey are the mascots. The Philly Flyers mascot Gritty is one of the most popular mascots...

According to multiple reports, the NHL will play two games featuring four teams, outdoors in Lake Tahoe in 2021.

Ontario’s minister of sport says the provincial government is examining how a Canadian division in the NHL might work.

According to a report from Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet Canada, the NHL and NHLPA have a tentative agreement on a 56-game season. TSN’s Renaud Lavoie adds that an announcement could come in the next few days with the 2020-21 season beginning on Jan. 13.

With the calendar turned to December, the Jan. 1 target date is no longer realistic to open the 2020-21 season. Instead, the NHL has proposed a mid-January start to the season, according to a report from TSN’s Frank Seravalli.

There was hope that there would be some concrete details about the upcoming NHL season, but negotiations on a return have hit a snag during the week. The players are reportedly “blindsided” by a request from the NHL owners to change the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.