Yevgeni Malkin News & Stories

I'm in Thinking-of-Guys mode.

It's been a really weird start to the season.

We knew the trade was coming, but we didn't think it'd be a win for both teams.

The Pittsburgh Penguins were supposed to work on their legacy this season. Instead, an aging core is outside of the playoff picture. JFresh looks at the offseason and whether it was the right approach or not.

The Penguins keep acting like they're two tweaks away from figuring it out but I don't think they are.

Sean Shapiro looks at the NHL, the injury in Tampa, and much more in his weekly column.

JFresh continues his look at the NHL's top players by looking at the centres.

Sean Shapiro looks at storylines for the Metro Division in 2023-24 that he'll be following.

The East Wild Card race is still hot, and kinda bad.

When you're an insider with no deals to talk about, what do you talk about?

JFresh continues his rankings series analyzing the top 20 centres in the NHL entering the 2022-23 season.

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

Salary cap space is at even more of a premium than usual. But who's actually going to take it on? Ryan Lambert looks into some salary situations in this week's What We Learned.

JFresh breaks down the big names, buyer-beware candidates and bargain bins on the UFA market ahead of the July 13 opening of free agency.

The Pittsburgh Penguins run as a perennial contender may be nearing an end, with Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang, Bryan Rust and Rickard Rakell, among others, staring down free agency and only so much money to go around.

Elite Prospects analytics columnist JFresh previews the New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins Eastern Conference quarterfinals playoff series.

EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert looks at the 3 stars from the hockey world in the 20th week of the NHL season.

EP Rinkside lead fantasy hockey analyst Cam Robinson offers up some targets from the waiver wire for the week of January 10 in the 2021-22 NHL fantasy hockey season.

Ryan Lambert takes reader questions and power ranks birds (yes, birds) in this week's EP Rinkside Mailbag.

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...

With round one matchups starting to get wrapped up, we're going to be taking a closer look at how the teams that won their series did so. This time, we're going to look at the importance of goaltending, and how the Jets and Islanders rode it to victory.

The Florida Panthers have a $10-million problem in goal, and it's costing them big time on the ice against the Tampa Bay Lightning in their playoff series. Ryan Lambert examines that and more in this week's What we Learned.

The Jeff Carter trade seemed a bit rich off the hop, but it's paying off massively for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Ryan Lambert covers that and more in another What we Learned.

It's all happening much quicker than usual. For those of you in leagues that run two-week playoff matchups, we are quickly approaching the end of regular season play. That means...

Don't shoot the messenger. Jack Fraser is the bearer of bad news, breaking down eight players who have benefitted from inflated puck luck early in the season.

In a night defined by team efforts rather than individual performances, Kasperi Kapanen and Blake Wheeler stood out.

Can the Olympic Athletes from Russia pull off an improbable gold model repeat at the 2022 Olympic games?

As Ryan Lambert writes, Ron Hextall, and to a lesser degree, Brian Burke, could be a capable duo of executives with the Pittsburgh Penguins, but the task ahead of them might prove too much to handle.

Under normal circumstances, I’d have just returned from the U18 World Hockey Championships in Plymouth, Michigan, fresh impressions of many of the 2020 NHL Draft’s best prospects foremost in my...

After months of deliberation, including a false-start in the summer, the Minnesota Wild and Pittsburgh Penguins finally agreed to a Jason Zucker-trade that works for both parties. A deal like...

I’m starting to notice a theme in these rankings. It’s as if there’s a negative relationship between sustained playoff success and a wealth of draft picks, prospects, etc. We’ll have...