Mark Stone News & Stories

JFresh ranks the 20 best right wingers going into the 2024-25 NHL season.

With Game 6 looming in Toronto, the loser is going to face a storm of controversy on Friday morning.

Sean Shapiro brings you his observations from the NHL playoffs including the Carolina Hurricanes relentless pursuit of taking chunks out of opponents.

The tale of the tape for the Vegas Golden Knights and Dallas Stars first-round series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

With a Stanley Cup in hand, the Vegas Golden Knights have continued to be aggressive. They've also done all the right things behind the scenes to make it all work.

Sean Shapiro goes through the NHL in his weekly column, looking at Logan Thompson's return to the crease, gambling in hockey, player- and puck-tracking data, and more!

Sean Shapiro goes through his weekly NHL thoughts in another edition of unnumbered thoughts.

It wasn’t long ago that you could confidently look at the Pacific Division and think it was the weakest in the NHL. Hell, you could have probably said it 12...

JFresh continues his series looking at the top player in the NHL, today focusing on the right wings.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Vegas Golden Knights won the Stanley Cup, the route they took to getting there, and the key contributions they got from various players along the way.

The Vegas Golden Knights have won their first Stanley Cup in franchise history with their 9-3 Game 5 win over the Florida Panthers.

Most general managers wouldn't have made the moves that the Vegas Golden Knights and Florida Panthers made to get to this point.

The Stanley Cup is either awarded or the NHL season continues for at least one more game.

The Vegas Golden Knights superstar left after a scary collision before returning with a memorable assist on his first shift back.

Golden Knights goalie comes up big in Game 1 as Vegas takes a 1-0 series lead.

JFresh previews the 2023 Stanley Cup Final between the Vegas Golden Knights and Florida Panthers.

The Vegas captain isn't an original Golden Knight, but he set the tone for what the franchise truly wanted to be when he arrived in a trade in 2019.

Dallas Stars captain Jamie Benn has been suspended two games for cross-checking Vegas Golden Knights winger Mark Stone in Game 3 of the Western Conference Final.

Rinkside analytics columnist JFresh previews the Western Conference Final between the Dallas Stars and Vegas Golden Knights.

We've finally got McDavid vs. Eichel in the playoffs. JFresh is here to break it down.

It's playoff time, so it's time to see how good my feelings were.

JFresh previews the Winnipeg Jets and Vegas Golden Knights first-round playoff series in the 2023 NHL Playoffs.

Kinda surprising to see the Golden Knights still this high in the standings, but what happens when they get everybody back?

The Vegas Golden Knights have announced that Mark Stone will be out indefinitely following back surgery.

We're just past the midway point in the NHL season, and the contenders are starting to separate themselves from the pretenders -- these are the Power Feeling.

J.D. Burke summoned a roundtable to vote on the NHL awards at the halfway point in the 2022-23 NHL season.

JFresh ranks and analyzes the NHL's top 20 right wings entering the 2022-23 season.

JFresh identifies the biggest factor for each NHL team in the upcoming 2022-23 season.

The Golden Knights have been eliminated from the playoffs and few outside the greater Las Vegas area is sad about it. EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert on the rise and fall of the Golden Knights this season.

We're getting some big-time performances in the Western Conference all of a sudden, from the Vegas Golden Knights, the Minnesota Wild and the St. Louis Blues. EP Rinkside columnist Ryan Lambert has the standout stories of the week.

The Los Angeles Kings are actually very good again.

There were changes afoot for plenty of teams in the last week, plus an exciting new entry into the Calder race and a major milestone for a major player.

You wouldn’t think there’s good news about losing a lethal goalscorer and the best two-way forward on the planet to injury after just a couple of games. But maybe there is some silver lining for the Vegas Golden Knights.

The Florida Panthers are scratching and clawing their way to the top of the Power Feelings, which ranks the league according to Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert's feelings about their chances of winning a cup. And you can't tell him he's wrong because these are his feelings and feelings can't be wrong.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are managing to weather the storm early without Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, or Bryan Rust, but other teams aren't doing quite as well early. That, and more, in this week's What we Learned.

Fantasy draft season is officially upon us. With regular-season games kicking off on Tuesday, there are precious few moments remaining to nab the players that will launch your team to...

Next up in our Trophy Watch series, Ryan Lambert looks at the field of candidates for the Frank J. Selke Trophy in the 2021-22 NHL season, awarded to the league's best defensive forward.

EP Rinkside Senior Columnist Ryan Lambert kicks off a Trophy Watch series by looking at the players with the best candidacies for the Hart Memorial and Ted Lindsay trophies in the 2021-22 season.

JFresh ranks the 20 best right wingers in the NHL going into the 2021-22 season.

The fantasy hockey world is a fickle beast. A nefarious, cold-hearted beast. One that will dangle all your hopes and dreams in front of you only to quickly pull back...

The Vegas Golden Knights may have just barely lost out on another Stanley Cup Final appearance, but they remain a legitimate contender for next season. Their window is wide open.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Vegas Golden Knights came back to beat the Colorado Avalanche in four consecutive games and win the West in the process.

As the finalists for each of the major individual awards that we care about get announced over the next couple of weeks, we'll be sorting through where the voters got it right and where they went wrong. This time we'll take a look at the Hart Trophy nominations.

The Knights have underperformed their "expected" goals and made goalies look Vézina-calibre for two straight post-seasons. JFresh figures out why.

It feels like we've been waiting years for this series. The Colorado Avalanche and Vegas Golden Knights are meeting up in a clash of the titans style second-round showdown, and JFresh sets the stage for that match with this preview.

It's the same ol', same ol' for the Vegas Golden Knights, who failed to score even once in their post-season opener against the Minnesota Wild. Ryan Lambert examines the Golden Knight's struggles to score in the post-season.

JFresh breaks down and visualizing the West Division first round matchups.

Dimitri Filipovic writes about the most effective penalty killing combinations, and how teams are strategically turning defense into offense by using their most talented players in shorthanded situations.

J.D. Burke polled his team of writers for their mid-season NHL awards winners, and he's revealing the results in this article on Rinkside.

Mark Stone took over with a historic playmaking performance, Elias Pettersson looks like he's back on track, and Drake Batherson stays hot as Dimitri Filipovic recaps Monday night's action in the NHL 3 Stars.

Dimitri Filipovic checks in with the debut of a new monthly feature on Rinkside, one aptly named 'NHL Trophy Watch,' in which he looks at the NHL award frontrunners as the carries on.

JFresh takes an early look at what Canada might look like if the NHL returns to the Olympics next year.

The debut of a recurring column by our Lead NHL Analyst, Dimitri Filipovic. The aptly named debut run of "Filipovic's Four Stats" looks at four peculiar pieces of NHL data, and what they mean.

The game is changing, and Ottawa Senators prospect Erik Brännström is one gust in the hurricane of young offensive defencemen altering the NHL’s landscape. In a sport where power play...

Vegas Golden Knights forward and former sixth-overall pick Cody Glass has one hell of a hockey dad. You’ll often hear about hockey moms — and rightly so — but Jeff...

The Ottawa Senators gutted their team this season, trading away Erik Karlsson, Mark Stone, Matt Duchene, and Ryan Dzingel. While the returns are underwhelming overall, there’s no doubt that the...

Any AHL club still pursuing the Calder Cup two-thirds of the way through May has seen plenty of obstacles by now. A pair of Eastern Conference powers, the regular-season champion...