It was round two for the Boston Fleet at Agganis Arena last Wednesday. The stage was set for an electric faceoff between the second-place Toronto Sceptres and the third-place Fleet — two teams with something to prove and a cause to rally for.
According to the NHL, the Hart Memorial Trophy is awarded “to the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team.”
A question arises. What constitutes value?
MVP awards are voted on...
The Boston Bruins came into the season with high hopes. They’ve made the last eight consecutive Stanley Cup Playoffs and 15 of the last 17. Just two seasons ago, they broke the NHL record for most points in a single season.
The Vancouver Canucks have been plagued with issues throughout the entire season. On paper, they’re not a worse team than that which forced Game 7 in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs against Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers.
Utah Hockey Club is finally getting a name. Smith Entertainment Group, owners of the Utah Jazz, acquired majority ownership rights to the NHL team back in April 2024. The news came after a few months of speculation that Ryan Smith, SEG chairman, wanted a team in Utah, and that team would be the now-defunct Arizona Coyotes.
The NHL’s nation-based tournament is not the Olympics, and it isn’t really an all-star game either. Instead of the typical all-star format used by nearly every other professional sports league, the NHL opted to create the 4 Nations Face-Off, featuring teams of players from Canada, the United States, Finland and Sweden.
Hockey players need their own moment in the spotlight.
Netflix recently announced “Receiver,” the sequel to its popular series “Quarterback” which followed around three NFL quarterbacks for a behind-the-scenes look into their lives, and a docu-series about the 2024 Boston Red Sox.
I now need the NHL to get its own reality show.
Trevor Zegras has fallen from grace.
The star center on the Anaheim Ducks was the ninth overall draft pick in 2019, so the expectations were always high for him.
Zegras quickly proved his ability...
Matt Rempe has captured the hockey world. The New York Rangers’ 6-foot-7, 21-year-old center made his NHL debut on February 18, already making history as the first forward to make his debut in an outdoor game.
No one cared about that piece of history. People cared that in his first week in the NHL, he had four drop-the-mitts fist fights in his first five games and more penalty minutes than time on ice.
