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Calgary Flames, 2025-26 in review 212 goals. No team in the NHL scored fewer last season, and everything wrong with the Calgary Flames flows out of that one number. The record was 34-39-9, 77 points, seventh in the Pacific. Not a disaster. Not a collapse like the ones that hit other teams in the division.…

Vancouver Canucks: the 2025-26 wreckage Minus 100. That was the Canucks’ goal differential last season, and it tells you most of what you need to know about a 25-49-8 year that finished dead last in the league. The leading scorer stopped at 51 points. For a team’s best offensive player, that is close to nothing,…

The Kings will retire Anze Kopitar’s No. 11 and unveil a statue on Feb. 24, honoring their all-time leading scorer and two-time Cup captain.

Koivunen ties his future to Pittsburgh The Penguins have their man. Pittsburgh has locked up forward Ville Koivunen on Thursday. The deal runs for eight years and is worth $32 million, an average of $4 million per season. Koivunen was a restricted free agent. The Penguins moved fast, and the 23-year-old Finn is set to…

Pittsburgh handed restricted free agent Ville Koivunen an eight-year, $32 million contract, betting long-term on the 23-year-old Finnish forward.

Haula heads to Los Angeles The Kings got their man. Erik Haula is off to California on a two-year deal, and he lands with a team still hunting for stability through the middle. He’s 35 now. That still counts for something when the games tighten up. Haula broke into the league back in 2013, and…

Kerfoot joins Nashville Nashville isn’t done shopping. Alexander Kerfoot has put pen to paper for two seasons with the Predators, and the fit makes sense. He reads transition play well, and he gives the roster a centre who does the quiet work. Harvard produced him before the league did. Scoring was never his thing. Look…

Montreal adds depth on the blue line The Montreal Canadiens have signed defenseman Maksymilian Szuber. The club announced a one-year, two-way deal yesterday for the 2026-27 season. Szuber is 23. He spent last season with the Tucson Roadrunners in the American Hockey League, where he put up 11 goals and 27 points in 65 games.…

Early August, and the phone still isn’t ringing Two of the more reliable goal-scorers of the last decade are sitting at home. Patrik Laine. Vladimir Tarasenko. Both still unsigned, both still waiting for an offer that fits. They aren’t alone. Michael Bunting, Eeli Tolvanen and Logan Stanley are floating around the same free-agent pool. On…