The Vegas Golden Knights are preparing for their third Stanley Cup Final appearance in nine seasons. Amid their playoff run, Vegas has been a pest to two division rivals looking for a new coach.
Sometimes loyalty to one franchise costs players championships. Tomas Hertl knew it in 2024, as he, alongside the Sharks, missed the playoffs for the fifth-consecutive season.
While it’s every hockey player’s dream to lift Lord Stanley’s Cup, a few players competing in this year’s Stanley Cup Final have a chance to place themselves in an elite class.
The mayors of the cities participating in the 2026 Stanley Cup Final have placed friendly wagers on the outcome. This has brought extra excitement to the world of hockey.
How many of the active NHL players to rack up at least 20 points in a single Stanley Cup Playoff run can you name in six minutes?
RALEIGH – The coaches are not supposed to be bigger stars than the players. But it’s hard to deny the presences of Rod Brind’Amour and John Tortorella.
There have been successful rookie seasons in NHL history, and there have been superior efforts worth celebrating time and time again. Here's our list of the 25 notable seasons from those with official rookie status, as deemed by the NHL, in reverse chronological order.
The Vegas Golden Knights prepare to play Game 1 on Tuesday of the Stanley Cup Final. Vegas is skating with confidence, after sweeping the Colorado Avalanche in the Western Conference Final.
The Vegas Golden Knights begin the Stanley Cup Final on Tuesday night against the Carolina Hurricanes. Golden Knights star Jack Eichel is sending out a message, ahead of Game 1.
The concept of “the heel” has been around long before it became a pop culture term. Professional wrestling has just turned it into an art. The heel is the bad guy who enjoys being disliked, breaks the rules, causes drama, and gives fans someone to root against.
The Vegas Golden Knights already handled the NHL’s best regular-season team. Now they get the league’s best playoff defensive team. Vegas opens the 2026 Stanley Cup Final on Tuesday night against the Carolina Hurricanes at Lenovo Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The Colorado Avalanche, definitive favorites to win the Stanley Cup at the beginning of the playoffs, have been shown the door. It is easily one of the most painful, disappointing losses in Avalanche playoff history and it has some wondering if it might be time to move on from head coach Jared Bednar.
Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final between the Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes is Tuesday. Before the puck drops on the best-of-seven series, here are five things we're keeping an eye on throughout the championship round.
With each interview and comment from within the Vegas Golden Knights organization, it’s becoming increasingly clear there’s a story involving Mitch Marner that hasn’t fully come out yet.
RALEIGH – Everything is the same for Mitch Marner, and everything is different. It’s a matter of perspective. Off the ice: Marner is Marner, the same energetic young man who was the engine of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ dressing room for most of his first nine NHL seasons.
The Vegas Golden Knights went from a team that barely squeaked into the Stanley Cup Playoffs to one that is now just four wins away from their second championship in franchise history.
At Monday’s season-ending press conference for the Montreal Canadiens, their general manager was asked about the team’s playoff run, plans for the summer, and the lack of production from the team’s top stars in the series versus the Carolina Hurricanes.
The return of Mark Stone put the Las Vegas Golden Knights in their fourth Stanley Cup Finals in their nine-year history. He’s one of the best right-wing players in the league.
Now that the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs have progressed into the Stanley Cup Final, it is time to start taking a look at the potential contenders for the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
Let's take a look at the top 10 players in this series.
While everything is rosy right now in Vegas, the Golden Knights may be facing an unfamiliar kind of pressure this offseason — one that could cost them a key piece they aggressively targeted just months ago.
The Vegas Golden Knights fired head coach Bruce Cassidy on March 29, and teams around the league have since requested to interview Cassidy for a coaching position.
After the Vegas Golden Knights swept the Colorado Avalanche to secure a spot in the Stanley Cup finals, a new study ranked Las Vegas among the top cities for hockey fans.
Cale Makar and the Colorado Avalanche were eliminated in shocking fashion on Tuesday night, swept away by the Vegas Golden Knights in the Western Conference Finals after cruising through the first two rounds of these playoffs.
How many of the captains from every team to win the Stanley Cup Final since the 1999-00 season can you name in five minutes?
Mark Stone and Cole Smith scored goals and Carter Hart made 20 saves as the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Colorado Avalanche 2-1 to compete a four-game sweep of the Western Conference finals on Tuesday in Las Vegas.
It just keeps on getting worse for Nathan MacKinnon and the Colorado Avalanche. The Avs find themselves in a deeper hole after three games in their West Finals series against the Vegas Golden Knights.
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