The rumors have been on and off since the end of last season. If Sidney Crosby ever decided that he wanted out of Pittsburgh, his boyhood favorite team, the Montreal Canadiens have been posited as a likely landing spot. Now top Habs insider Renaud Lavoie of TVA Sports has even gone so far as to say 'It's Certain It's Going to Happen'. He appeared on the Real Kyper & Bourne show on Sportsnet recently to talk about the team's need for a second-line center, and how Crosby would be the...
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He's as much to blame as anyone, but Nick Robertson's name has been floated on the rumor mill once again in recent days, as the frustrating Toronto Maple Leafs forward continues a slow start to the season. Jonas Siegel and Chris Johnston in The Athletic have posited two Eastern Conference teams as potential destinations as trade talks have resurfaced around the 24-year-old . Finding an interested suitor willing to pay a price that makes sense for the Maple Leafs hasn’t been easy. Two tea...
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The Edmonton Oilers are going to have a roster crunch sometime soon. Currently, Zach Hyman, Jake Walman, and Mattias Janmark are all out of the lineup with injuries but expected back relatively soon (Hyman comes off LTIR on Nov. 1). Additionally, Alec Regula was just placed on IR on Sunday. But when all of those names are back, bodies will have to be moved out. Insider Frank Seravalli told Kevin Karius that four players are at risk of losing their places on the Oilers r...
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Shane Pinto leads the NHL in goal-scoring going into Sunday's play, having lit the lamp seven times on the young season in just six games. As a pending restricted free agent, the soon-to-be 25-year-old is putting himself in line for a hefty new contract. And while the Ottawa Senators weren't knocking down the door this summer to get Pinto re-signed (the two sides were said to be far apart in talks), their thinking seems to have evolved a bit. It appears now that the Sens have rampe...
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Alex Formenton's return to the NHL seems imminent, but not with the Ottawa Senators , who still have his rights. On Insider Trading, Darren Dreger reported that, "Staios has given Formenton's agent, Darren Ferris, the permission to speak with other NHL clubs about the possibility of having his rights traded. Nothing imminent, but Formenton would like to come back." Formenton hasn't played in the NHL since 2021-22, when he scored 18 goals and 32 points in 79 games, but has been in the National ...
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The Calgary Flames are off to a brutal start this season, and the media in Canada isn't holding back. After the Flames recent 6-1 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights, CBC analyst, and former NHL defenceman Kevin Bieksa called out the Flames for their lack of effort, and singled out forward Yegor Sharangovich. The 27-year-old Flames forward has posted one point in six games, and against the Golden Knights on Saturday, played 15:00 of ice-time, was a minus -1 rating, and didn't have a shot on goal....
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Leaving the Toronto Maple Leafs was not an easy decision for Mitch Marner. The star forward wound up being traded to the Vegas Golden Knights over the summer, after it was clear to Leafs' GM Brad Treliving that he wasn't interested in re-signing a long-term contract. Toronto received Nicolas Roy in the deal, and now Marner is off to a hot start with his new team. The Golden Knights are 4-0-2 through their first six games and Marner has started the season strong with his new teammates, po...
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The San Jose Sharks are the worst team in the NHL through six games, and head coach Ryan Warsofsky is already fed up. The Sharks were most recently shutout by the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-0 on Saturday night, and frustration boiled over in a major way for Warsofsky after the game. San Jose's bench boss spoke to reporters and made quite the statement, which included his kids. "Yeah I think so, a lot of new players, we gotta just keep working. Keep teaching from the coaches, keep preparing th...
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Keep an eye on the Buffalo Sabres moving goaltender Devon Levi. Recently, h ockey insider Jeff Marek mentioned Levi as a potential trade candidate, and given the start the Sabres have had this season, and their lack of trade candidates with high-end potential, moving Levi in a package could give them a return of a top-six forward they desperately crave. There's another name...for me there's a ton of questions...Devon Levi; that is one that's under the radar right now; it does very much sound l...
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The Seattle Kraken 's new bottom-six forward Freddy Gaudreau will be lost to the team for four-to-six weeks in a tough injury break. An update on #SeaKraken forward Freddy Gaudreau: pic.twitter.com/FRBVwYn2Wu — Seattle Kraken (@SeattleKraken) October 18, 2025 Gaudreau suffered an upper-body injury in Thursday night's shootout loss to the Ottawa Senators. He went awkwardly into the boards after taking a hit in the second period and didn't return. The 32-year-old center w...
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The Chicago Blackhawks took care of some internal business on Saturday as they team announced they have waived forward Joey Anderson. If Anderson clears Sunday at 2pm, he'll be assigned to the American Hockey League's Rockford IceHogs. Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman was first to report the waiver wire on Saturday. The 27-year-old Anderson missed the start of this season as he's been recovering from a lower-body injury that he suffered during training camp. While he's been ramping up to return, ...
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The Seattle Kraken announced on Saturday that defenceman Brandon Montour will be taking a leave of absence from the team to attend to a family matter. An update on #SeaKraken defenseman Brandon Montour: pic.twitter.com/TkY9t0dU0z — Seattle Kraken (@SeattleKraken) October 18, 2025 No further details will be shared at this time, per the team. The 31-year-old Montour is entering his second season with the Kraken after signing a lucrative seven-year contract worth $49.99 million back in July of 20...
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The San Jose Sharks are looking to bring in some young defenseman who will fit with what they're trying to build for the future. The team wants to build the defense similar to what the forward group looks like and have more options that they can feel confident in. San Jose has many UFAs after this season, and some, if not all of them, are going to be dealt this season as rentals. This includes John Klingberg, Mario Ferraro, Timothy Liljegren, Nick Leddy, and Vincent Desharnais. Sticking around...
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The LA Kings have started the 2025-26 season with a record of 1-3-1, but things get worse. The team has now lost its captain and top line center, Anze Kopitar, for the time being. It was reported that he will be out week-to-week with a foot injury after being hit in the foot by a puck in the previous game against the Minnesota Wild . Kopitar will be out week-to-week with a foot injury…hit by a puck vs Minnesota https://t.co/MB3CVEhUj2 — Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) October 17, 2025 Moving ...
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The Buffalo Sabres are still the punchline of the NHL, and it could be time to move one of their big three defencemen. The Sabres are off to a 1-3-0 start this year and could quickly become the first team to have a fire sale this year. Not only on the ice, but there's also a chance both GM and head coach get replaced at some point, which is wild to think considering the circus that's been going on around the organization for the last few years. Recently, Daily Faceoff's Anthony Di Marco poised...
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Get Cole Caufield into the Olympics is what seems to be on the top of Lane Hutson's mind. The two Montreal Canadiens are certainly expected to be in the mix for the Olympic roster and if it was up to Hutson, Caufield would be a lock, and he'd quickly become someone who the team would rely on heavily to score in big moments. "I think we saw it when (Team USA) went to OT versus Canada. They need someone to score, and in those big moments, that's something (Caufield) can bring," Hutson said...
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The Montreal Canadiens received bad news as defenseman Kaiden Guhle will miss an extended period of time with a lower-body injury. It was reported that the timetable for his recovery and return is 4-6 weeks. #GoHabsGo say defenseman Kaiden Guhle will miss 4-6 weeks with a lower-body injury. — Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) October 18, 2025 Guhle played just 16 minutes in the Canadiens' fifth game of the season, a 3-2 overtime win against the Nashville Predators. He has logged at least 20 m...
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Despite their first win on Wednesday night, the Buffalo Sabres are already facing a crisis about the future of the team, and what happens with star forward Alex Tuch . Aside from those existential issues, the Sabres are also dealing with another long absence for center Josh Norris . He'll be out for "a significant amount of time." It's a hole in the lineup they need to fill, and Matthew Fairburn writes in The Athletic about several options the Sabres could op...
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The Buffalo Sabres put a nice 8-4 win on the board Wednesday night over the Ottawa Senators, their first triumph of the young season. But that won't put an end to the turmoil surrounding the team just yet. The latest hot-button topic is the future of star forward and pending UFA Alex Tuch. Contract talks have been put on hold for now, but his price tag continues to soar, to "staggering" levels, as noted by Daily Faceoff's Jeff Marek. On Marek's The Sheet podcast on Friday, fellow insider David...
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The San Jose Sharks have traded forward Oskar Olausson to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for defenseman Kyle Masters. We have acquired forward Oskar Olausson from the San Jose Sharks in exchange for defenseman Kyle Masters Full details » https://t.co/Tt7kRpDW9I pic.twitter.com/GXdzTbdASI — Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) October 17, 2025 This is the second time that Olausson is on the move since the offseason, as the Colorado Avalanche traded him to the Sharks for Danil Gushchin back in July. N...
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Former New York Rangers first-round pick Brennan Othmann just hasn't been able to seize an opportunity to break through with the big club. After being selected with the 16th pick in the 2021 NHL Draft, the left-shot forward has only managed to get in 25 games total with the Blueshirts, 22 of them last season. He failed to break camp with the team again this fall. Now, Othmann’s name is “gaining traction” among other NHL teams, per i nsider Elliotte Friedman. He is reporting that the Rangers ar...
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The 2026 Olympic orientation camp was in August for Team USA, and there were some players left off that certain fanbases weren't happy about. It isn't easy to be one of the players representing your country at the Olympics, especially in a big hockey country like the United States. But with the expanded roster, more players are added to the mix, including three that Frank Seravalli revealed. Among the players listed on the preliminary roster submission were Lane Hutson, Thatcher Demko, and Bro...
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The Columbus Blue Jackets hosted a busy night as scouts from all around the league flooded in to see them host the Colorado Avalanche. The interest was heavily directed towards the Blue Jackets, though, as Yegor Chinakhov made his season debut. It was a lackluster debut for the 2025-26 season by the trade candidate. He played just 9 minutes, was a -1, and blocked one shot. Chinakhov skated alongside Isac Lundestrom and Zach Aston-Reese on the fourth line. It wasn't what teams were looking to s...
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According to David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period , the San Jose Sharks are looking to add young blueline talent to pair with Shakir Mukhamadullin and rookie Sam Dickinson. With Macklin Celebrini, Will Smith, William Eklund and Michael Misa headlining the forward group and Yaroslav Askarov in net, management’s next phase is reinforcing the back end for the long term. That mandate tracks with recent behavior dating to last season, as the front office has been canvassing for young defenseme...
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The mystery surrounding just how long the Ottawa Senators will be without Brady Tkachuk has been solved. The team has revealed that their captain and spiritual leader had hand surgery today, and will be missing from the lineup for six to eight weeks. An update on Brady Tkachuk: pic.twitter.com/uA905TyPAn — Ottawa Senators (@Senators) October 16, 2025 That timeline would keep him out for about 20-to-25 games and have him back late November or the first half of December. The hand inju...
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