Matthews says focus solely on hockey, winning after signing extension with Maple Leafs
Auston Matthews will be well paid to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to a Stanley Cup championship.
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Auston Matthews will be well paid to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to a Stanley Cup championship.
The 2026 Stanley Cup playoffs are underway, and with them will come one of the most fascinating postseasons in recent years. With the old order fading — the two-time defending Cup champ (and three-time East champ) Florida Panthers missed the field entirely — and no obvious successor in place, the race for the Cup feels as open, and as consequential, as it has in years.
Following a trio of Game 1s opening the 2026 Stanley Cup playoffs Saturday, there are four more clashes throughout the day Sunday as eight additional teams begin their postseason journeys.
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DENVER — Nathan MacKinnon scored his career-high 52nd goal of the season into an empty net and had two assists to help the Colorado Avalanche clinch the NHL's top seed for the postseason with a 3-1 win over the Calgary Flames on Thursday night.
The Colorado Avalanche sharply disagreed with the officials' decision to give star center Nathan MacKinnon a game misconduct penalty for goalie interference in their 4-3 home loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night.
The 2026 NHL trade deadline had an unusual cadence. There was a week of interesting deals and genuine surprises; a deadline day where nothing of consequence happened; and then absolutely chaos as a flurry of trades was completed before the timer ticked down to zero.
The Toronto Maple Leafs made their first deal ahead of the NHL trade deadline, sending center Nicolas Roy to the Colorado Avalanche for a conditional first-round draft choice in 2027 and a conditional fifth-round pick in 2026.
The NHL, NHL Players' Association, International Hockey Federation and International Olympic Committee reached an agreement in 1995 that paved the way for NHL players to compete in ice hockey at the Winter Olympics. Since then, the league's players participated in five straight Winter Games, beginning with the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and ending in 2014 in Sochi, Russia.