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The Seattle Kraken have traded forward Mason Marchment to the Columbus Blue Jackets, six months after acquiring him from the Dallas Stars. The Jackets are sending two draft picks to the Kraken, a 2026 fourth-rounder originally owned by the New York Rangers and a 2027 second-rounder, an NHL source told ESPN. "Mason is a player I know very well, and I think he will add a great deal to our team," said Blue Jackets general manager Don Waddell. "He is a physical, hard-nosed competitor with proven offensive ability and we are very excited to have him join the Blue Jackets."

Pretty much the same as last night. We came out in the first period, and I think we were ready to go. Things were fine. We got a power play. We killed some penalties. We had a few looks on the PP, but it just seemed like it unraveled after that for us. They scored a couple of goals in the first period that were defendable.

I thought we made it really easy for them,

San Jose Sharks forward Will Smith continues to rehab from his injury, but it remains unclear when he'll be able to rejoin one of the team's practices. Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky said Friday that Smith has been attending meetings and working out at the team's practice facility in recent days but held off on giving any specific timeline for the 20-year-old's return.

On Thursday night, you did a little whoopsie-poopsie and forgot about your microphone! Dumbass! It happened during a TV timeout in the third period. "We'll take [the timeout] as well," you said. But you did not! You were still on the air. There were no commercials playing while you did your little scat-singing: "Mmmm. Bap-a-dap-a-dap-a-dap-a-dap." In the background, we can hear the audio from the arena, and then ...

On June 27th, 2025, the New York Islanders made a massive roster changing move. They sent their young star defensemen Noah Dobson to the Montreal Canadiens, in exchange for two 2025 first round picks, 16th and 17th overall. They also picked up somebody who Isles fans would have assumed to be a 4th line winger this season, a Swedish hockey player who goes by the name of Emil Heineman.

Actually, the first part of the first period wasn't a terrible start. It was actually a good start to the game. We gave up a shorthanded goal, and that is a tough one. The second was a little better, and our third was our best period, which is great to see the battle back. I thought our top line was really good tonight.

Zach Werenski scored twice and added an assist in his 600th NHL game, Boone Jenner had a goal and an assist, and Kent Johnson added two assists. Jet Greaves stopped 24 shots for his first win since Nov. 20. Mikael Granlund had a goal and an assist, Ryan Strome and Jackson LaCombe also scored goals, and Ryan Poehling recorded two assists for the Ducks. Ville Husso made 24 saves as the Ducks dropped three games on their five-city trip.

Expansion teams are usually bad because they're contingent on being bad. For narrowing the other teams' slices of the revenue pie, they can join the league only at a high cost and at some competitive disadvantage. If they do fashion something workable from everyone's leftovers, a la the Valkyries or Golden Knights, good for them, but that success wouldn't be by design.

Stuck to our game, I thought we had a lot of good o-zone time, and a good process, and I think we did a good job of limiting them to their chances. It comes down to the end like that, and if you play the right way, you get rewarded, so I was happy to see the results go that way.

Kreider, the lifelong New York Ranger who played in parts of 13 seasons for the Blueshirts until the summer trade that sent him to the Anaheim Ducks, received a lengthy standing ovation from the Madison Square Garden faithful several in Kreider jerseys as he skated around, his hand on his chest. It's self-explanatory, Kreider said. It's hard to put into words what that experience was like I don't know, kind of leaves you speechless, I guess.