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Winnipeg Jets 2025-26 Season Preview
The Winnipeg Jets enter the 2025-26 season with the weight of expectations completely on their shoulders. After winning the Presidents’ Trophy last season with 116 points and dominating stretches of regular-season play, the Jets’ year ended abruptly in the conference semifinals at the hands of the Dallas Stars. That sting has lingered all summer, and […]
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Opinion: Why the Rangers Can Bounce Back in 2025-26
Last season was awful for the New York Rangers in every single way. For starters, they missed the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since the 2021 shortened season. The team was inconsistent in every area of their game and it ended up dooming them in the long run. Secondly, there was a lot […]
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Connor Hellebuyck Wins Vezina and Hart Trophy
Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck has won the 2025 Vezina and Hart Trophies as the league’s best goaltender and most valuable player. Hellebuyck is the first goaltender since Carey Price to win the two awards. Price took home the Hart and Vezina in the 2015 season. While debate surrounds Hellebuyck’s 2025 postseason numbers, the votes […]
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Opinion: Panthers’ Bobrovsky Heating Up at the Right Time
After being a finalist for the Vezina Trophy as one of the league’s best goalies in the regular season and winning the Stanley Cup last season, Florida Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky came into this season with not much else to prove that he will go down as one of the game’s best goaltenders. When it […]
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2024-25 Inside The Rink NHL Awards
The 2024-25 NHL Season is all wrapped up, and we at Inside The Rink surveyed several writers on who they think should win each NHL award. Each winner of the Inside The Rink awards will be bolded and italicized. Hart Memorial Trophy (Most Valuable Player) Connor Hellebuyck (WPG) 8 votes (61.5%)Leon Draisaitl (EDM) 1 vote […]
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Connor Hellebuyck Named Vezina Finalist for Third Consecutive Season
For the fifth time in his career and the third consecutive season, Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck has been named a finalist for the Vezina Trophy as top goalie in the NHL. Hellebuyck won the Vezina in 2020 and 2024. He is seen as the favourite to win the 2025 Vezina Trophy. From Commerce, Michigan, […]
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Opinion: Lightning’s Vasilevskiy Quietly One Of League’s Top Goaltenders This Season
When it comes to the top goaltenders in the NHL this season, only one name is consistently mentioned: Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck. This should not come as a surprise, considering what he has done so far this season. As of this writing (Monday night, February 24), Hellebuyck, 31, is 34-7-0-2 with a 2.06 goals-against […]
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Seattle Kraken’s Philipp Grubauer Headed to the AHL
In a move that showcases the Seattle Kraken’s commitment to producing a team of high-performing players, goaltender Philipp Grubauer was placed on waivers and has now officially cleared. The veteran goaltender, who has struggled throughout the first half of the 2024-25 season, has been sent to the Coachella Valley Firebirds, the Kraken’s AHL affiliate team. […]
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Los Angeles Kings Quarter-Century Team Announced
The Los Angeles Kings Quarter-Century Team is here.
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