The 2025 NHL draft, which is moving to a decentralized format, will be held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles in June, a source confirmed to ESPN.
The draft is scheduled for June 27 and 28 at the venue, which is across from Crypto.com Arena, home of the Los Angeles Kings. The event was last held in Los Angeles in 2010, when the Edmonton Oilers selected Taylor Hall first overall.
The NHL will fine the Dallas Stars for violating CBA rules by holding an optional practice during the league's holiday break, a league source told ESPN on Sunday.
The rules that the NHL and NHLPA agreed upon stipulate that all teams must be dark between Dec. 24 and Dec. 26. However, Stars coach Peter DeBoer revealed Friday, ahead of a game against the Minnesota Wild, that several Stars players were at the rink Thursday.
Sidney Crosby broke Mario Lemieux's Pittsburgh franchise career record for assists on Michael Bunting's power-play goal and the Penguins beat the New York Islanders 3-2 on Sunday night.
Crosby has 1,034 assists -- 12th in NHL history. Only three players -- Ray Bourque, Wayne Gretzky and Steve Yzerman -- have more assists with a single team. The 37-year-old Crosby has played 1,310 regular-season games. Lemieux played 915.
The Colorado Avalanche acquired center Juuso Parssinen from the Nashville Predators on Saturday.
The Avalanche also received a seventh-round pick in the 2026 NHL draft for forward Ondrej Pavel and a third-round pick in 2027.
The Colorado Avalanche needed only four games to commit long term to goalie Mackenzie Blackwood.
The Avalanche announced Friday that they had signed Blackwood to a five-year contract extension that runs through the 2029-30 season. The contract carries an average annual value of $5.25 million against the salary cap, a source told ESPN. Blackwood is in the final season of a two-year contract worth $2.35 million against the cap.
The Detroit Red Wings fired coach Derek Lalonde on Thursday and named Todd McLellan as his replacement, a major change by general manager Steve Yzerman more than a third of the way through another disappointing season in the place known as "Hockeytown."
The move comes with the Red Wings on a three-game skid and having lost nine of their past 12. They are 13-17-4 this season and are above only the lowly Buffalo Sabres in the Eastern Conference.
The Buffalo Sabres can carry the good cheer of ending the longest losing streak in the NHL this season into their holiday break.
Buffalo routed the New York Islanders 7-1 on Monday night, scoring twice in the first, three times in the second and twice more in the third to snap a 13-game (0-10-3) month of futility.
New York Rangers forward Matt Rempe was suspended Sunday for eight games for a hit on Dallas Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen "that violated multiple NHL rules," according to the NHL Department of Player Safety.
Rempe is considered a repeat offender under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.
Morgan Geekie scored a tiebreaking, power-play goal with 1:45 left in regulation, and the Boston Bruins defeated the Buffalo Sabres 3-1 on Saturday night, the club's 13th consecutive loss.
After losing at home to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Friday, the Sabres probably should have been the more tired team, but they took the play to the Bruins for lengthy stretches, especially in the second period. In the end, however, Buffalo could not prevent another loss in a skid that is dimming what was a solid start to the season.
The Washington Capitals placed Lars Eller on injured reserve Saturday due to illness and recalled fellow forward Henrik Rybinski from Hershey of the American Hockey League.
The move to injured reserve is retroactive to Tuesday. The Capitals acquired Eller from the Pittsburgh Penguins on Nov. 12 in exchange for a 2025 fifth-round draft pick and a 2027 third-round selection.
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