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The Ottawa Senators announced on Thursday night that AHL head coach Troy Mann was relieved of his duties and subsequently replaced by assistant coach David Bell. According to the reports of several insiders, these changes took NHL GMs by surprise, given the point in the season; Belleville is 29th in the AHL standings, so in a pure hockey sense it can't be that surprising.

If the NHL is ever going to evolve, the people best positioned to kickstart that process are the players. Nobody internalizes the game like NHL players, and as such when they vocalize their desire for change, the league ought to listen. It just so happens that - in this case - everybody except the NHL is on the same page, more or less.

The National Hockey League has been all over the world since the since first playing games outside of North America in the late 1930's. They've played games in Asia, Europe and even a pre-season game in Puerto Rico, but now, they'll be heading Down Under. According to David Pagnotta of...

News broke on Saturday that the Toronto Maple Leafs will host the NHL's 2024 All-Star Game weekend. Toronto ought to give the event a much greater atmosphere than South Florida. Nothing against South Florida, I'm sure it was a fine event for fans in attendance and definitely the players. But...

Injuries take a major toll on an NHL team. For some, it can be the difference between making the post season and ending up in the draft lottery when everything is said and done. With that in mind, the Twitter account NHLInjuryViz has compiled a list of the man games lost per team in the NHL this season up to the All-Star break. For some on the list, it's been a major factor in where they stand at the moment.

The Calgary Flames' season isn't necessarily going according to plan. Not to say this wasn't somewhat expected; it was. As it stands, Calgary (24-17-9) is outside the playoffs, just behind the Colorado Avalanche for the second Wild Card spot in the West. A team can't just lose 250 player points...

The National Hockey League's trade deadline is in exactly one month. The action and rumours are expected to pick up over the next couple of weeks and the goaltending market will be one to keep an eye on leading up to March 3rd. According to David Pagnotta of The Fourth...

As the NHL's March 3rd Trade Deadline quickly approaches, dozens of storylines hang in the balance. Some teams are actively tanking, seeking to sell off their best players for parts. Meanwhile, others are gearing up to seize their Stanley Cup windows and start an arms race of sorts. Additionally, numerous...

Athletes chirp one another. It's simply a part of the game. Sometimes it's in good fun, others it can escalate to the point of genuine disdain between combatants. Recently, Brad Marchand chirped Toronto's Mitch Marner, which made for some excellent viewership. During his media tour for the NHL's All-Star festivities,...

One of the bright spots during Friday's NHL All-Star Skills Competition was Edmonton Oilers forward Connor McDavid as he crushed his opponents during the Accuracy Shooting. McDavid needed to beat 18 seconds to qualify for the semi-final round and 12.1 seconds to surpass Brock Nelson for first place following the first round. Not only did he do both, he went 4-for-4, knocking down each target in only 9.497 seconds.

Hockey fandom can be a roller coaster ride. One season your team is pushing for a playoff spot, and the next everything can fall apart. The last two seasons for the Vancouver Canucks have been full on fall apart mode, with the team seemingly disintegrating right before fans' eyes. One of them has used his obituary to get in a dig at the team for one last time.

Rumours are flying as we lead up to the trade deadline, which is officially less than one month away. But sometimes those reports aren't always true, as was the case with recent news from DailyFaceoff's Frank Seravalli regarding St. Louis Blues forward Ivan Barbashev. Seravalli reported that the St. Louis...

Edmonton Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl is having yet another strong season, but when speaking with the media on Thursday ahead of All-Star Weekend, the 27-year-old said that he's not too happy with how he's been playing. "Yeah, it's been a funny year for me personally, to be honest. I haven't...

Connor McDavid has pretty much cemented himself as the single greatest hockey player in the world. There's no denying it at this stage. In the most talented era ever, the Edmonton Oilers' captain is head and shoulders above everyone else. McDavid failed to score 100 points just twice in his first 7 seasons; first in an injury-shortened rookie season and then in the COVID-shortened '19-20 season where he scored 97 in 64. He has 92 in 50 so far this season.

Zdeno Chara stirred the earlier this season when he said the Vancouver Canucks prematurely celebrated their Stanley Cup Final series in 2011. The Canucks won Games 1 & 2 before losing the series in 7 games. Then-Canuck Kevin Bieksa refuted Chara's claims, suggesting they were a total fabrication. Classic he-said/she-said.

Alexander Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby have been the faces of the National Hockey League since they both began their illustrious careers back in the 2005-06 season. The rivalry between Ovechkin and Crosby has certainly been played up over time, but it's given us some pretty great moments over the last 18 years including an outdoor game, intense Stanley Cup Playoff series' and even on the international stage, at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Bo Horvat's trade to the Islanders came as a surprise to everyone. GM Lou Lamoriello always works in mysterious ways, but this trade was bold even for him. Horvat is a pending unrestricted free agent this summer, and how this trade looks in hindsight depends largely on the Islanders' ability to sign an extension.

Despite how people feel about the event, the NHL's All-Star Weekend always brings the best players in the game together and it can provide some pretty special moments on and off the ice. During Thursday's media day ahead of All-Star Weekend, Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin was full of praise...

The NHL's All-Star weekend in South Florida has not been great. Not even close. The Skills Competition was kind of a joke, players clearly not taking it seriously. It was drawn out way too long, and it was really hard for fans to really buy into it. Take this shootout...

Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin is set to sit down with his agent Pat Brisson this weekend, amid the NHL All-Star festivities, to discuss his options going forward. The pending unrestricted free agent told reporters on Thursday that he wants to remain a Red Wing, but negotiations on an extension need to be done.