Nugent-Hopkins scored just his second five-on-five point of the season away from Connor McDavid. It’s been an unusu

Nugent-Hopkins notched a power-play assist, two PIM and two blocked shots in Saturday's 3-2 loss to the Canucks. Nugent-Hopkins has earned four goals and three assists over nine outings in a productive January.

The Capitals have taken a more aggressive stance with their penalty kill this season and seen huge improvements as a result.

Edmonton Oilers veteran forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is beginning to show significant signs of struggle, and the team may be reaching the point where he needs to be demoted out of the top six.

The Edmonton Oilers went 3-1 in four games last week, including two come-from-behind wins, and almost pulled off another against the Vancouver Canucks on Jan.

Nugent-Hopkins scored a goal on three shots, added a power-play assist and went plus-2 in Wednesday's 5-3 win over the Wild. Nugent-Hopkins earned his first multi-point effort since Dec. 14.

Edmonton is in the market to bolster its blue line and its reportedly leading the race to land a marquee free-agent defenseman. John Klinberg is nearing return from resurfacing surgery that he had in 2023 and a decision is expected to be made within the next two weeks per NHL insider Darren Dreger.

Evan Bouchard scored with 6:55 left and the surging Edmonton Oilers overcame a three-goal deficit to beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-3 on Thursday night.

Vasily Podkolzin scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third period, Connor McDavid had two goals and an assist, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Minnesota Wild 5-3 for their seventh win in eight games.

The top unit of McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Evan Bouchard, and Zach Hyman are still spearheading a sharp unit as the Oilers rank No. 8 overall in power-play efficiency, but they ended last season at No. 4.

And the ensuing cluster puck at the end of Saturday’s game in Vancouver led to a chain reaction that turned what should have been a special evening against the Washington Capitals into two violent incidents, two disciplinary hearings and another example of the NHL’s inability to figure itself out.

In recent times, Calgary Flames defenceman Rasmus Andersson’s name has come up in news. The Swede has stated that he would like to remain in Calgary and