2025: The sports year in pictures
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Draisaitl reaches 1,000-point milestone in Oilers’ 6-4 win over Penguins
Edmonton Oilers centre Leon Draisaitl became the fourth-fastest active player in NHL history to reach 1,000 career points in the first period of a 6-4 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday.
Short rinks cut no ice with NHL players, including McDavid
TORONTO, Dec 15 : Canadian standout Connor McDavid and a number of his NHL peers are not concerned that the ice rinks for the 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympics will be smaller than what they are used to playing on.
Oilers captain McDavid, other NHL players unfazed by smaller Olympic rinks
Canadian standout Connor McDavid and several his NHL peers are not concerned the ice rinks for the Milan-Cortina Olympics in February will be smaller than what they are used to playing on.
Marathon meetings next week will decide bulk of Canadian men's Olympic hockey team
By the time the management group for the Canadian men’s national hockey team emerges from marathon meetings on Tuesday, as much as 80 per cent of the roster going to Italy next February should be written in pen.
Celebrini joins Gretzky, Crosby as lone NHL teens with 30 points in first 20 games of a season
Macklin Celebrini might be the only one on the San Jose Sharks not excited to talk about his remarkable season that has the 19-year-old accomplishing feats only some of the greatest players ever have done at his age.
Sources: Adrian Kempe, Kings agree to 8-year, $85M contract - ESPN
The Los Angeles Kings and winger Adrian Kempe have agreed to a new eight-year contract worth $10.625 million annually, sources told ESPN on Sunday.
'We're just not clicking,' Oilers GM Stan Bowman says of Edmonton's scuffling start
Stan Bowman smirked when the conversation shifted to goaltending.