📰 Ice Hockey

The Athletic

The Athletic's NHL staff picked every team's biggest surprise of the early 2026-27 season.

JohnWallStreet

NBA, NHL and MLB teams are cutting season-ticket inventory to sell more seats game by game.

The Athletic

The Athletic picks one less obvious trade candidate from every NHL team.

NHL

The NHL signed a multi-year deal with Sofascore to build next-generation stats alongside Sportradar.

The Athletic

The Carolina Hurricanes' mascot weighed in on Vancouver's housing crisis during a game against the Canucks.

Housing · Climate

Front Office Sports

The NHL's all-time goals leader says the 2026-27 season will be his last.

Front Office Sports

The NHL launched romance-style audio stories about real players, which it says the players approved.

Associated Press

The NHL expands to 84 games per team, its longest regular season since 1994 and a league-record 1,344 games.

NHL.com

Further reading from the day's section on The Bundle Runs Out.

AI

Bleacher Report

The NHL moves to an 84-game season with mandatory cut-resistant neck protection, playoff cap enforcement, shorter maximum contracts and a ban on deferred salaries.

Labour

Front Office Sports

Baseball's new cap matches the NBA, NHL and MLS, with private equity barred from exceeding the controlling owner's stake.

Private equity

The Athletic

Forced trades and long-dormant offer sheets are ending hockey's tradition of player deference to front offices.

NHL.com

The brand becomes an official NHL beer sponsor across the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Winter Classic, All-Star Game and Stadium Series.

Stadium financing · Labour

Front Office Sports

MLB lifted its per-club private equity cap from 15% to 20%, matching the NBA, NHL and MLS, with firms barred from exceeding the controlling owner's stake.

Private equity

Sports Business Journal

Four teams stranded by the shutdown of Main Street Sports Group's regional networks move into a league-managed model pairing Spectrum carriage with Prime Video.

Climate

Marker Zone

The NHL is evaluating Houston and Austin around a $3.5 billion expansion-fee-and-arena package, with notable owner opposition and no formal vote expected soon.

Front Office Sports

The Jazz and Utah Mammoth owner says betting and prediction markets are permanent but need moderation.

Sports betting

The Athletic

A record OHL trade sending Tanner Adams for 17 draft picks turned on a family's finances and the cost of the path to the NHL Draft.

Front Office Sports

Allowed contract terms shorten by a year once the new collective bargaining agreement takes effect at midnight.

Labour