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It is officially February, the best month of the regular season for the NHL. Most of the time. Despite a couple of dud trade deadlines over the past few years, the league is primed for a great one coming on Feb. 25. And it all goes through Columbus. That is where two of the biggest […]

Derick Brassard is on the move again. The Penguins sent the center to the Panthers along with forward Riley Sheahan in exchange for forward Nick Bjugstad and Jared McCann on Friday. For Brassard, the trade means suiting up for his fifth NHL team over his 12-year NHL career. The former sixth-overall pick in the 2006 […]

The Lightning and their high-flying offense hadn’t been shut out all season. The Islanders blanked them for 65 minutes, but it still wasn’t enough. Victor Hedman scored the only goal in shootout Friday night to lift Tampa Bay past the Isles 1-0 after both goaltenders put on a spectacular display in regulation and overtime. Hedman […]

It’s easy to see right away that Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider are both good friends with Mats Zuccarello. But the Rangers’ red-hot top line likely won’t be intact much longer, because Zuccarello seems destined to be shipped out before the Feb. 25 trade deadline. It’s a topic that is uncomfortable, but unavoidable — especially […]

It wasn’t just that one turnover. But it didn’t help. Jimmy Vesey made a difficult mistake in the third period of the Rangers’ 4-3 win over the Devils on Thursday night in Newark, coughing up the puck in his own zone less than a minute after his team had taken a 3-2 lead. The result […]

Agonizing as the decision may be for the Blue Jackets’ hierarchy, which features good men John Davidson as president and Jarmo Kekalainen as general manager, the choice seems rather clear-cut as concerns impending free agent Artemi Panarin. If the Columbus organization feels it is on the cusp of a serious challenge for the Stanley Cup […]

MONTREAL — Nico Hischier wore the alternate captain’s “A” on his jersey for the first time in his career. The 20-year-old Swiss star has fast become a leader for the New Jersey Devils. Hischier scored at 1:56 of overtime after tying it midway through the third period in the Devils’ 3-2 victory over the Montreal […]

Unless you evaluate the Rangers based solely on the proposition that they should lose as much as possible in order to enter the lottery with the best odds of getting a premium draft pick, this was a very good week for Broadway’s team. And no, not because the Blueshirts entered Saturday’s nationally televised prime-time matchup […]

There are just over three weeks until the trade deadline, meaning a lot can happen between now and the end of the season. But the Islanders are on their first-place perch without pretense, without the feeling they have fallen backward into this position. There is a realistic pragmatism to them that seems to follow team […]

It is premature to call it a plan, for it is more like a concept. Yet the notion of pulling off what would be quite the creative exacta appears to be crystalizing within the Rangers’ front office as the Feb. 25 trade deadline approaches. That is, the Blueshirts are mulling an approach in which they […]