6:38 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Kings put goaltender Cal Petersen on waivers Wednesday, a surprising move for a player once considered the successor in net to two-time Stanley Cup winner Jonathan Quick. Petersen, 28, went on waivers the day after allowing four goals on 16 shots in relief of

1:20 PM ET Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Kris Letang will be out indefinitely after suffering a stroke for the second time in less than a decade, the team said Wednesday. Penguins general manager Ron Hextall said in a statement that Letang was taken to a hospital Monday after telling team trainers he was dealing with what

Nov 29, 2022 Doug Armstrong is in his 12th year running the St. Louis Blues, making him the second-longest-tenured general manager in the NHL. While he’s not sure what to make of his team this season, he knows one thing. “I’ve never been part of a group that’s had such a diversity in play and

10:59 PM ET Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin scored two goals in the first period of Tuesday night’s 5-1 win against the Vancouver Canucks, setting another NHL record along the way. Ovechkin’s tallies were the 402nd and 403rd on the road in his 18-year career, passing Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky for the most on

4:00 PM ET One of the reasons I like expected goals so much as an advanced statistic in hockey is because of the variation and depth of the models and forecasting that goes into it. As a weekend Excel warrior, watching the results of data scientists churn out similar, but different formulas to account for

7:00 AM ET Multiple Contributors There are some trends found around the quarter mark of the NHL season that famously stick around. For example, the oft-cited stat that teams in playoff positions on Thanksgiving have made the playoffs 77% of the time in the salary-cap era (since 2005-06). But for every harbinger of things to

4:00 PM ET It may be a small sample, but when you combine small samples with pre-existing conditions, we can put a bit more confidence into the numbers. Jakob Chychrun and Nick Schmaltz returned to the lineup for the Arizona Coyotes for the first time this season (basically, as Schmaltz was hurt two minutes into

8:50 AM ET Days after Borje Salming was honored in Toronto during Hockey Hall of Fame weekend, the legendary Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman passed away. Tributes poured in from around the hockey world, and the Leafs created a Borje jersey patch in tribute. As classy as Salming was on the ice, he will be remembered

7:00 AM ET There is no official “quarter mark” of the NHL season, but now that 31 out of 32 teams have played 20 or more games, it’s time to grade them all on their starts. We broke down what has gone right and what has gone wrong for each team, and also compared their

10:28 PM ET Rachel Doerrie, a former employee in the Vancouver Canucks analytics department, filed a complaint against the team last week, alleging discrimination by the organization when she was fired in September. On Sunday, Doerrie tweeted out a copy of the complaint, which was filed by her legal representative on Nov. 22 and alleges