NHL players will participate in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 this February, the first time since 2014 the best players in the world will be on the Olympic stage. NHL.com will post a story each Monday to count down to the 2026 Olympics. Today, a sit down with Team Canada general manager Doug Armstrong:

With NHL free agency in the final stages of wrapping up, it’s not too early to look ahead to the start of the 2025-26 season. The NHL announced today that it’ll begin the 2025-26 season with a tripleheader on Tuesday, October 7th. The tripleheader will be broadcast exclusively on ESPN in the United States and Sportsnet and TVA Sports in Canada.

No Canadian NHL team has won a Stanley Cup in 32 years, meaning no Canadian NHL city has hosted a Stanley Cup parade for its hometown team in more than three decades. Enjoy the latest local, national and international news.

Blair Gladue, better known in Oilers country fans as Superfan Magoo, talks about being on The Amazing Race Canada.

There are now just seven months to go until the 2026 Winter Olympics, which are scheduled to take place in Italy from Feb. 6 to 22. Milano Cortina 2026 will feature the long-awaited return of best-on-best competition in men’s hockey at the Olympics.

With several NHL teams in need of a reliable goalie, some are reportedly trying to bring one out of retirement—a goaltender who stepped away not long ago but knows what it takes to win a Stanley Cup alongside Sidney Crosby.

Florida also re-signed fourth line center Tomas Nosek, they acquired restricted free agent goaltender Daniil Tarasov and inked him to a one-year deal, and then signed veteran right-shooting defenseman Jeff Petry to his own one-year deal.

Cal Foote, once a rising NHL star, is now embroiled in a legal battle. He is charged in the Hockey Canada sexual assault case. The allegations stem fr

“I looked at the schedule and I was like, ‘oh, no, you know what? If we do this, I’m going to miss the first two rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs,’” says Gladue, known best in Oiler fandom and Edmonton at large as Superfan Magoo. “Then, if we lost any of those first two rounds, it’s going to be on me.”

At the quarter century mark, let's look at the 10 greatest hockey moments. Hint: Crosby, Ovechkin, and Bourque are at the top of the list.

Maple Leafs' Sid Smith on April 10, 1949 after having scored a hat trick in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final, and in the uniform of the Whitby Dunlops for the 1958 IIHF World Championship. Smith was playing captain on the team that won the gold medal in Oslo, Norway.