The 2004-05 NHL lockout led to the cancellation of the season and brought fundamental changes to the league. With the establishment of a new salary cap, modifications in free agency rules ...

For years, Wayne Gretzky's record of 894 career regular-season goals was widely thought to be untouchable. Now, the ...

As the 2024-25 NHL season pushes forward, the playoff picture takes form as teams start locking down their places in the 2025 ...

In 2005, after the NHL lockout, the league scrapped the two-line pass rule to allow for longer, faster passes, increasing the tempo of the game. The same year, the introduction of the shootout ...

The NHL and the NHLPA are ready to open talks of ... shows that the league is in a good place and the odds of another lockout are extremely low.

Bowman coached in 2,141 NHL games. The rule changes coming out of the 2004-05 NHL lockout that opened the game up were a boon for skilled players such as Ovechkin reveal their full talents.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman discusses starting ... The current CBA was ratified in January 2013 after a four-month lockout disrupted the 2012-13 season. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 ...

The 2025-26 regular season will begin on Tuesday, October 7, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman ... first Wednesday of October since the 2004-05 lockout. Since the league signed its landmark television ...

One can make a strong case that Ovechkin would have already been wearing the all-time scoring crown a long time ago if not for the 2004-05 NHL lockout and if the COVID-19 pandemic never occurred.

But the biggest twist came after the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season as Kovalchuk announced his NHL retirement. Having played in the KHL amid the lockout, he wanted to return to Russia.