Kucherov picked up an assist Thursday in a 3-0 win over Los Angeles.

Taylor Heise, Natalie Spooner, Marie-Philip Poulin, Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon, and Nikita Kucherov are the Team of the Year forwards

The National Hockey League will hold its hearing into Connor McDavid and Tyler Myers’ crosschecking incidents on Monday. Both hearing are in-person so the most either player can get is a four game suspension.

The Tampa Bay Lightning star Nikita Kucherov was widely criticized ... especially after Connor McDavid's three-game suspension.

The Lightning right wing scores a highlight-reel goal and becomes the second player in team history to claim 600 assists.

Connor McDavid has served his three-game suspension for cross-checking Conor Garland in the head on Jan. 18. After plenty of debate and complaints that the punishment for McDavid was too steep, the Oilers captain is back and ready to roll.

When Leon Draisaitl won his first Hart Trophy in 2019-20, he made his case during a stretch when teammate Connor McDavid was out with an injury. The Oilers had missed the playoffs in back-to-back years in 2017-18 and 2018-19 and found themselves back in the mix in 2019-20 after a hot start to the season.

In the NHL's "Wheel of Justice" @NHLPlayerSafety suspended Carson Soucy for 1 game after Nikita Zadorov X Checked Connor McDavid from behind...and Soucy X-Checked McDavid in the face! Consistently ...

The Hart Trophy race looks like it’ll be an interesting one this season. There is a favorite, but a couple of players you wouldn’t expect to be in the Hart race in most seasons have made their cases to be in contention because they’ve made that much of a difference for their teams.

On top of the NHL salary cap's upper limit increasing to $95.5 million next season, the cap is expected to jump to $104 million and $113.5 million in the following two seasons.

Vancouver Canucks captain Quinn Hughes has been named to EA Sports NHL 25's Team of the Year. Hughes is one of four defensemen to receive the honour, joining Cale Makar, Erin Ambrose and Megan Keller.

Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl earned No. 1 status on the strength of an outstanding first four months of the season after signing an eight-year, $14-million AAV extension that will almost certainly make him the highest-paid player in 2025-26.