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JFresh previews the 2025 Stanley Cup Final.

These guys gotta go!

JFresh previews the second-round playoff series between the Vegas Golden Knights and Edmonton Oilers.

JFresh previews the first-round Stanley Cup playoff series between the Los Angeles Kings and Edmonton Oilers.

JFresh ranks the 20 best defencemen going into the 2024-25 NHL season.

The Oilers captain now has 42 points in the playoffs and his team is halfway to a historic comeback.

JFresh brings you his preview of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final between the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers.

The tale of the tape for the Dallas Stars and Edmonton Oilers Western Conference Final series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

It seemed to have all happened in the blink of an eye. The Fantasy Hockey regular season is over. For leagues that run a two-week playoff setup (and conclude before...

JFresh continues his look at the NHL's top players by looking at the defenceman.

The Next Great Superstar series continues this week and we’re heading west. This time Cam Robinson examines the case of Evan Bouchard.

We've finally got McDavid vs. Eichel in the playoffs. JFresh is here to break it down.

JFresh previews the Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings first-round series in the 2023 NHL Playoffs.

JFresh checks in on 20 of the biggest names moved at the deadline.

JFresh looks at nine buyers who made big moves at the trade deadline.

The NHL trade deadline impacted the important stuff, fantasy hockey.

Sean Shapiro and J.D. Burke team up to evaluate each team's body of work at the 2023 NHL trade deadline.

The veteran defender still has four years remaining on his deal.

JFresh breaks down 37 trade targets ahead of the 2023 Trade Deadline

It's another edition of Take Town from EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert, this one looking at Nick Suzuki and Mattias Ekholm's new deals, Vitali Kravtsov's trade demand, Brady Tkachuk's contract impasse, and distinct kicking motions.

This may look to you as a standard NHL “power rankings” but let me assure you, friend, that it is anything but. These rankings are based entirely on how I feel about a team’s chances of winning the Cup, meaning you can’t tell me I’m wrong because these are my feelings and feelings can’t be wrong.

With the Seattle expansion draft less than 100 days away, JFresh goes team-by-team to see where everybody currently stands.

Better late than never, right? We think so, so we've got a weekend edition of Doerrie's Deets, in which Rachel Doerrie offers her take on some of the latest happenings in the hockey world, with insider bits, scouts know-how, and a little of everything in-between.

As Ryan Lambert writes, the Philadelphia Flyers are pretty much a write-off for the playoffs, even if their goaltending rebounds, and they need to act accordingly, with a shrewd plan for the future.

Jack Fraser and Mitch Brown team up to break down the best defenceman on the trade market, Nashville's steady Swede.

The title really says it all. If the Toronto Maple Leafs want to strike this season, they likely have to do so with Freddie Andersen taking a back-seat role. Ryan Lambert tackles that in this week's What we Learned.

Brent Seabrook, Tom Wilson and supplemental discipline, MacKenzie Blackwood, the transfer agreement, the 2021 NHL Draft, and ESPN's TV deal -- these are the subjects of the latest Doerrie's Deets.

The Nashville Predators are in dire need of a rebuild, and David Poile seems committed to charting that course. Ryan Lambert updates you on that and more in this wee'ks edition of What we Learned.

JFresh takes an early look at what Team Sweden might look like if the NHL returns to the Olympics next year.

Maren Angus and Rachel Doerrie team up to explain what exactly is happening in Nashville this season.