Nathan MacKinnon News & Stories

I'm in Thinking-of-Guys mode.

The Predators, Rangers, and Wild have are looking at big inflection points in the near future.

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

Goal-scoring is on the rise, so how many 40-goal scorers can we expect to see in the 2024-25 NHL season?

The NHL Awards were given out tonight in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The tale of the tape for the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche's second-round series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The Florida Panthers took a 2-0 series lead in the battle of Florida. Sean Shapiro has the full scope of the action from last night across the league.

The tale of the tape for the Colorado Avalanche and Winnipeg Jets first-round series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

What goes into a vote for the NHL awards? Read on to find out.

Sure, it may seem easy to simply select the best players in a playoff pool, but Michael Clifford is here to helo direct you so you're left holding the title instead of the bag come June.

Sean Shapiro looks at how the Dallas Stars trade for the Chris Tanev might impact both his new team and the rest of the league.

The Rinkside 3 Stars features a look at whatever it is Craig Conroy is doing in Calgary, Elias Pettersson drama, the NHL scoring race, and being a trades sicko.

It's been a minute since I did a big ranking in here so this is me doing that for the Skills Competition events.

Sean Shapiro bring his weekly look around the NHL, starting with the job rookie GM Daniel Brière has done thus far in Philadelphia.

The weekly Rinkside 3 Stars are highlighted by Nate MacKinnon continuing to go off, the Maple Leafs coming back from the brink, and there being just a lot of games this week.

Lots going on this week, huh?

Every team has finally reached the midway point in the 2023-24 season, so the EP Rinkside team is handing out NHL awards to mark the occasion.

Peep this out.

It's a holiday edition of the EP Rinkside 3 Stars, highlighting the play of Nathan MacKinnon, the NHL's schedule of late, and the Arizona Coyotes cookin'.

Sean Shapiro checks in around the league with his weekly unnumbered thoughts.

EP Rinkside analytics columnist JFresh looks at all the new data that's been made available to the public with the launch of NHL Edge

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

"Wow all the refs suck!" Okay and if they call the rulebook to the letter, the product sucks. There's no good answer here.

JFresh previews the Colorado Avalanche and Seattle Kraken's first-round series in the 2023 NHL Playoffs.

Dimitri Filipovic picks out five Western Conference nuggets heading into the All-Star break.

Every one of our three stars this week didn't have the best October or November, but that's all over now.

From prospects to the NHL, the EP Rinkside staff takes a minute to make their picks for what will happen in the next 12 months.

Associate editor Sean Shapiro takes a look at possibly the most competitive division in the NHL after the defending champs lost another, and biggest, weapon.

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

You had questions, and Ryan Lambert has answers. It's a summer edition of the EP Rinkside mailbag, looking which teams improved the most, the potential for another lockout,

The Stanley Cup-champion Colorado Avalanche have a tough offseason in front of them, but as long as they can keep this hockey operations department intact, they should be able to weather the storm.

Abbey Mastracco looks at the key factors in the Colorado Avalanche's 2022 Stanley Cup championship win over the Tampa Bay Lightning.

JFresh breaks down the clash of the titans in the Stanley Cup Final using stats gathered by TopDownHockey and AllThreeZones.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Lightning came back to beat the Rangers, and why the Avalanche were too much for the Oilers to handle.

EP Rinkside analytics columnist JFresh previews the Western Conference Final matchup between the Colorado Avalanche and Edmonton Oilers.

In order to advance in the postseason, teams need their best players to be their best players. Ryan Lambert spotlights the contributions of the elite players in the postseason in this week's 3 Stars.

JFresh looks at the underlying numbers and the key matchups in the second-round Stanley Cup Playoff series between the Colorado Avalanche and the St. Louis Blues.

Dimitri Filipovic and Ryan Lambert help get you ready for the four first round matchups out West, by highlighting one specific trend to watch for each team heading into the postseason.

Elite Prospects analytics columnist JFresh previews the Colorado Avalanche and Nashville Predators Western Conference quarterfinals playoff series.

EP Rinkside fantasy expert Cam Robinson takes a look at what's happening throughout the rest of the regular season to help fantasy owners navigate their lineups, the waiver wire and prepare for the offseason.

Jack Eichel went full-heel in Buffalo. There's drama in the Western Conference Wild Card race. And the goals... there are so many of them! These are the 3 Stars for this week of NHL action.

Takes on Russia, Chicago, the Calder, Rasmus Ristolainen, faceoff wins, and Jake DeBrusk.

Ryan Lambert has the standout performers and standout ideas from week 13 of the NHL season.

No one cares about your fantasy team. Except Cam Robinson. He cares, and he's answering your most pressing questions.

The St. Louis Blues started the season strong, and they've stacked up points with the most games played in the league, but there are worrying trends of late that suggest the good times could be on shaky ground.

It's Ryan Lambert's turn with the EP Rinkside mailbag. This week, he's fielding questions on what to do with the Canucks, the Colorado Avalanches second line, and a whole bunch of pop-culture mixed in.

You're in Take Town, a regular feature on EP Rinkside in which senior columnist Ryan Lambert looks at a handful of leading storylines from around the league, offering his take on each one.

Maybe all of the league's credible contenders were just being nice to their opponents to start the season. Because they sure are rounding into form now. That, and more, in this week's What We Learned.

EP Rinkside's resident Fantasy Hockey expert Cam Robinson is looking way into the future, ranking the 50 best players for the 2026-27 season. This is a must-read resource for anyone in a keeper league.

As we enter into another NHL season, we must remember that there is more at stake than simply Stanley Cup aspirations for the 32 clubs. There is fantasy hockey glory...

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.

Dimitri Filipovic bounces around the league, covering some of the notable takeaways from the moves we've seen so far in the early stages of free agency.

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.

The Colorado Avalanche lost in the second round for the second straight year, this time to the Vegas Golden Knights. Now they face a new challenge this off-season as they try to retain their top talents for another run next year.

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.

Toffoli Plays The HeroTyler Toffoli appears determined to provide as much possible value to the Habs this year. And he's delivering. Top-five in goals in the regular season. Don't Forget About...

Welcome back for another edition of Doerrie’s Deets! Way too much has happened in the last fortnight from officiating debacles, a Toronto Maple Leafs collapse for the ages, a draft lottery and the Colorado Avalanche looking like they’re the big kid at the park with their opponents.

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.

These rankings are based entirely on how Ryan Lambert feels about each team's chances of winning the Cup, meaning you can't tell him he's wrong because they are feelings and feelings can't be wrong.

In the final regular season edition of Filipovic's Fun Facts, Dimitri Filipovic empties the notebook and gets into some of his favourite random stats from the year that was.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a closer look at a pair of standout individual performances by defencemen with unique skillsets. Today's subjects are Jakob Chychrun and Jaccob Slavin.

In April's edition of 'Filipovic's Fun Facts', we take a closer look at Juuse Saros and Jason Robertson, two young players making the most of their opportunity of late.

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.

There were some notable performances by players on the ice, but what an official got caught saying into a hot mic stole the show. Dimitri Filipovic investigates in Tuesday night's 3 Stars.

Puck luck can be fickle, and if the bounces aren't going a player's way it can really hurt their numbers. Jack Fraser finds eight players you can expect to improve in the second half.

When traversing the world of prospects, you can't help but have your favourites. It's the same with teaching, but you never admit it to the kids. Cam Robinson clearly has his favourite.