Alex Ovechkin scored the overtime winner against Leevi Merilainen to pass Jaromir Jagr for a League record and gain ground on the NHL’s all-time goals leader Wayne Gretzky in The Gr8 Chase. The Capitals maintained top spot in the League standings over the second-place Jets,

On Thursday, with two assists, Mitch Marner became the fastest player in Maple Leafs history to reach 700 career points.

A weekly gauge of the players who are controlling substantial buzz around the league. When a player is included on this list it may not be a good thing -- it means that they are capturing a large amount of the hockey world's attention.

Throughout this week’s mentors’ trip, we’ve seen some inspired choices by the Toronto Maple Leafs. Bobby McMann brought his elder sister, Jaclyn, while Auston Matthews selected Joe Thornton for the annual experience.

Alex Ovechkin scored the overtime winner against Leevi Merilainen to pass Jaromir Jagr for a League record and gain ground on the NHL’s all-time goals leader Wayne Gretzky in The Gr8 Chase. The Capitals maintained top spot in the League standings over the second-place Jets,

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.

The light bulb seems to have turned on for the young Montreal Canadiens. They are the hottest team in the league, and their young core is really starting to gel under coach Martin St. Louis. For the first couple months of the season,

Through games of Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025

This is the seventh in-season edition of theScore's NHL Power Rankings for the 2024-25 campaign. Check back for updated rankings every other Monday.In this edition, we select every team's MVP at the halfway point.

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.

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.

Toews has been one of the great winners in hockey. He captained three Stanley Cup championship team in Chicago. He scored goals in Team Canada gold-medal wins at the Olympics of 2010 and 2014. The bigger the game, it seemed, the better he played. He was the kind of contributor that coaches adore.