Now that the stunning news of the Vegas Golden Knights firing of head coach Bruce Cassidy has settled in, there are certainly some front offices around the NHL that are seriously reconsidering their options behind the bench. Cassidy is a great coach with a recent Stanley Cup on his resume, and it would be a surprise if some team isn't quick to jump on him. Some come immediately to mind. Edmonton Oilers Kris Knoblauch's job security seems extremely shaky at the moment, as the Oilers...
In one of the wildest bombshells of the year in the NHL, the Vegas Golden Knights have fired head coach Bruce Cassidy with 8 games to play in the regular season. And it gets even wilder: They've replaced him with... John Tortorella. The Vegas Golden Knights have relieved Bruce Cassidy of his duties as head coach. John Tortorella has been named head coach. #VegasBorn https://t.co/TSTwVqXlbQ — Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) March 29, 2026 The Golden Knights have had a disappointing season...
Pending unrestricted free agent Bobby McMann has broken out big-time since arriving in the Pacific Northwest, with seven goals and 11 points in eight games with the Seattle Kraken since the trade at the deadline. Insider Elliotte Friedman says the Kraken have no intention of letting the forward get away in free agency this summer. I don't think it's gone very far down the road yet, but we're under the impression that the Kraken have indicated to McMann that they would like to try and keep him....
The Toronto Maple Leafs are facing the Anaheim Ducks on Monday night. And you know that this team, which has shown some fight and gumption in the games AFTER Gudas chopped down Auston Matthews with his dirty hit, would love to get a crack at him for some revenge. But Gudas was in a walking boot after Thursday's Ducks game following an awkward fall against the boards. He didn't play in Anaheim's game on Saturday. That would give him an 'out' from having to face the music against the Leafs...
It's official. Philadelphia Flyers top prospect Porter Martone is turning pro. His college season is over, and he has signed a three-year entry-level contract. OFFICIAL: We have signed forward Porter Martone to a three-year entry-level contract. https://t.co/dODZsHdwhf — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) March 29, 2026 Martone was the Flyers first round pick (6th overall) in the 2025 NHL Draft. Word is that he could be in the lineup as soon as Tuesday when the Flyers face the...
Everyone has been debating just what went wrong with the Toronto Maple Leafs this season. Losing Mitch Marner was an issue right from the start, but from first to worst, the team has collapsed beyond anyone's wildest imagination. Everything from character to coaching, from talent to togetherness, from offense to defense. The blame has been directed at many different issues this season. The Leafs' leading scorer, William Nylander, was asked what he thought about it, and if there was...
New Jersey Devils fans, your roster is going to look very different next season. General manager Tom Fitzgerald is under the gun, having one last shot this offseason to make significant strides in the right direction. Thanks to a number of key injuries and some unmet expectations, the Devils have once again failed to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Fitzgerald has been aggressive on the trade market, but unfortunately, missed out on Quinn Hughes, which set the team back. Momentum is headin...
James Nichols of New Jersey Hockey Now raised an interesting possibility this week. The New Jersey Devils and Toronto Maple Leafs each had disappointing seasons, each missed the playoffs, and each have a piece the other genuinely needs. Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman reported before the March 6 deadline that the Devils were among a handful of teams with "serious interest" in Toronto winger Matthew Knies. He stayed put at the deadline, but that doesn't mean the conversation is over. ...
The Columbus Blue Jackets will try to maintain their playoff spot in the Eastern Conference without one of their best defenceman. Damon Severson has suffered an upper-body injury, and will be out multiple weeks as the team has placed the right-handed blueliner on injured reserve. Blue Jackets' head coach Rick Bowness spoke to the media on Friday and informed the media of Severson's condition. He suffered the injury during Thursday night's game against the Montreal Canadiens. Canadiens' forward...
The Detroit Red Wings are becoming a team to watch in the NHL. Steve Yzerman has assembled a dynamic young core, who are starting to hit their stride, along with one of the best farm systems in the league. Yzerman made a move to acquire two-way defenceman Justin Faulk from the St. Louis Blues ahead of the trade deadline, and is hopeful his roster is balanced enough, and goaltending strong enough, to make some noise in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Looking ahead to this upcoming offseason, expect t...
The Toronto Maple Leafs have once again dipped into the NCAA free agent pool to nab another prospect, as they continue to try to re-stock their barren asset shelves. 🖊️ We’ve signed defenceman Hayes Hundley to a three-year, entry-level contract beginning in the 2026-27 season He will join the @TorontoMarlies for the remainder of the 2025-26 season on an amateur tryout Details » https://t.co/psrGqUSvoQ pic.twitter.com/xuUXoRhd2B — Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) March 27, 2026 Hayes Hun...
One of the biggest names to watch this coming offseason on the trade market is undoubtedly Vancouver Canucks center Elias Pettersson. With six more years to run on his $92.8 million contract ($11.6M AAV), an extremely intriguing situation could unfold. Which teams can afford to take on a cap hit like that, and which teams are willing to gamble that they can get Pettersson back to his 102-point form of three years ago? For the second straight season, EP40 is having an extremely disa...
The Toronto Maple Leafs have been showing all sorts of 'fight' since standing idly by, watching their captain, Auston Matthews, get cut down by The Butcher Radko Gudas earlier this month. It's a case of too little, too late. Nevertheless, it's a somewhat invigorated finish to what has been a depressing season for Leafs fans. But what will come of that Matthews situation? Will he want to stick around for the final two years of his contract, or find greener pastures with less drama?...
The Columbus Blue Jackets will have to continue their Cinderella push for the playoffs without top-pairing defenseman Damon Severson. The team has revealed today at practice that Severson will be out "week to week" after leaving last night's game with an upper-body injury in the third period. Columbus lost a tough one, 2-1 to the Montreal Canadiens. #CBJ coach Rick Bowness says D Damon Severson is week-to-week with an upper body injury. “Terrible timing for us, terrible timin...
Nikita Kucherov has done something remarkable over the last three months, and he did it very quietly. The Tampa Bay Lightning winger got off to a slow start this season, and was as many as 22 points behind the NHL scoring lead. He then went on a 95-point run over a 45-game stretch, the most by any player in a 45-game span since Mario Lemieux in 1995-96, and has now pulled even with Connor McDavid atop the scoring race at 121 points apiece. He's the betting favorite to win the Hart ...
It started as a compliment. After Edmonton's 5-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday, Connor McDavid called Jon Cooper's team "perfectly coached," "extremely well organized," and "very rehearsed in everything they do." When asked about the Oilers by comparison, McDavid said "that's a coaching question," then added they were "somewhat rehearsed and organized, but not to their level." Whether he meant it as a shot at Kris Knoblauch or not, the hockey world ran with it, ...
He'd only been back for five games, but Pittsburgh Penguins legend Sidney Crosby is back on the shelf, it appears. Crosby suffered an injury late in the first period of their game Thursday night against the Ottawa Senators. According to Dan Kingerski of Pittsburgh Hockey Now , Crosby left the Penguins bench with three minutes to go in the first, but didn't appear to be limping or laboring in any way. He will not return to the game. Forward Sidney Crosby will not return to to...
After winning the Presidents' Trophy last season, it's been a real slog in 2025-26 for the Winnipeg Jets. They've straightened things out a bit of late, and picked themselves up from a 13th-place standing in the Western Conference going into the Olympic Break. They've gone 8-3-4 since then, and are now five points out of a Wild Card berth going down the stretch. It might be a case of too little, too late to salvage this season, but as i nsider David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period te...
The Toronto Maple Leafs would like to reshape their roster this summer, and the team's longest-serving player, Morgan Rielly, could be a casualty if they can get him to waive his no-move. He has four years remaining on his deal with a $7.5M AAV. To a certain extent, the same applies to Darnell Nurse with the Edmonton Oilers . The team is having a frustrating season, and much of the finger-pointing is at the team's blueline. Would the Oilers like to move on from the four more years of Nurse's $...
So we know that changes are coming for the Toronto Maple Leafs this offseason. Of that, there is no doubt. Perhaps in the front office, perhaps behind the bench, but certainly on the ice. But according to insider Elliotte Friedman, speaking on The Fan Hockey Show on Thursday, some of those changes on the ice might not even be in management's hands. A lot of the decisions are probably going to be made for them... How (Auston) Matthews looks, what he decides...
The Ottawa Senators had finally climbed into a playoff spot on the back of their four-game winning streak. But it's come at a price. Top-four defenseman Thomas Chabot has suffered a broken arm and will be out for four to eight weeks. Thomas Chabot broke his forearm. Out six to eight weeks. Had surgery today #Sens — Bruce Garrioch (@SunGarrioch) March 26, 2026 Chabot had surgery today to repair his forearm, and that effectively ends his season. The Senators would not only have to somehow ...
The Anaheim Ducks and Pittsburgh Penguins are no strangers to making trades, however, turns out they almost made a deal together ahead of the Mar.6 trade deadline. Reports have indicated before the Ducks shipped Ryan Strome to the Calgary Flames, they were in talks with Kyle Dubas and the Penguins about a potential deal. Frank Seravalli: The Penguins were...one of the teams that was calling Anaheim to get in on Ryan Strome; don't have to give up anything, it's just cap space, maybe...
The St. Louis Blues tried to blow up their roster ahead of this season's trade deadline, and while a couple moves transpired, expect to see a full re-tool this upcoming offseason. Alex Steen is expected to take over as GM and Steen will be tasked to re-shape the core of this team, after Doug Armstrong certainly got the ball rolling, moving on from captain Brayden Schenn and two-way defenceman Justin Faulk. The Blues are loaded with young talent and high draft picks, and look for Steen to shop ...
Steve Yzerman stood his ground as Detroit Red Wings general manager ahead of this season's trade deadline. Even though there was massive pressure on the Red Wings' GM to make a splash, or two, Yzerman kept declining trade offers that included sending any of his top three prospects out of town. Anthony Di Marco: Speaking with one executive whose team had trade discussions with Yzerman...the Red Wings were not willing to move any of their top prospects...Nate Danielson and goaltenders Seba...
It's not a matter of if anymore, but of when and where. With the NBA pushing through its own expansion process in Las Vegas and Seattle, and MLB openly discussing adding franchises, the NHL is quietly getting its ducks in a row for the next wave of growth. The league isn't running a formal expansion process, and commissioner Gary Bettman has been careful not to wave a green flag publicly, but multiple insiders are telling us it's coming. David Pagnotta, speaking on The Sheet with J...