The newly expanded PWHL launches its fourth season with all 12 teams competing during the first weekend of December, and will include women’s hockey replacing the NHL on CBC’s iconic “Hockey Night in Canada” broadcast

Macklin Celebrini was picked as captain of the San Jose Sharks, becoming the youngest player ever to fill that role for the team at the age of 20

The NHL is going to an 84-game season for the first time since 1993-94

Coco Gauff will be a player-owner for the Florida franchise that will compete in the new season of World Team Tennis

The NHL Board of Governors discussed expansion to Houston or Austin, Texas, for the first time since beginning an exploration process with a potential ownership group interested in putting a team there

Pavel Dorofeyev with the New York Rangers, Brady Tkachuk with the Florida Panthers and Sergei Bobrovsky with the Toronto Maple Leafs are among the familiar NHL faces in new places this season

Macklin Celebrini and the San Jose Sharks are entering a new phase after a tear down and rebuild led to seven straight seasons without a playoff berth

The Carolina Hurricanes are opening preseason camp as the reigning Stanley Cup champion

Quinn Hughes unwound after an especially eventful hockey season with the usual retreat to his lake home in Michigan