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Vancouver Canucks
Canucks Cut Ties With Hoglander, Get Pick From Nashville
Nils Hoglander spent six years trying to become the player Vancouver drafted him to be. On Monday, the Canucks decided that wait was over. Vancouver shipped the 25-year-old Swedish forward to the Nashville Predators in exchange…
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Trades & Rumours
Simon Nemec Officially on the Block?
The Nemec Trade Rumours Are Back and This Time They Have Legs The Simon Nemec situation in New Jersey is messy, and it got messier on Wednesday. A report from Slovak journalist Simon Cop of Dennik indicated that Nemec had off…
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Prospects
TheBigFaceoff 2026 NHL Mock Draft Rankings
TheBigFaceoff 2026 NHL Mock Draft: First-Round Edition Welcome to TheBigFaceoff’s official 2026 NHL Mock Draft . This year’s class boasts elite offensive talent at the top, a very deep defenseman pool, and strong internationa…
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Vancouver Canucks
Vancouver Names Johnson GM and Elevates Sedins to Co-Presidents
The Vancouver Canucks have their new leadership structure, and it is built around some of the most familiar names in franchise history. Ryan Johnson has been promoted to general manager, becoming the 13th person to hold the rol…
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Toronto Maple Leafs
Top Five Toronto Maple Leaf Coach Candidates
Craig Berube is out, and John Chayka and Mats Sundin now face one of the most important decisions of their early tenure in Toronto. The head coaching job with the Maple Leafs is the highest-profile vacancy in hockey, which mean…
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NHL News
The Oilers Did Kris Knoblauch Dirty and Everyone Can See It
There is a right way and a wrong way to handle a coaching change, and the Edmonton Oilers have chosen the wrong way with a level of transparency that is almost embarrassing. Frank Seravalli reported Monday morning that the Oile…
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Carolina Hurricanes
How Are the Carolina Hurricanes This Good?
Nobody should be surprised by the Carolina Hurricanes anymore. And yet, every spring, the hockey world watches them dismantle another opponent and asks the same question. How are they this good? Through two rounds of the 2026 p…
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- Christopher Hodgson
- Christopher is a hockey writer and is the founder of TheBigFaceoff.com, a hockey analysis publication with over 1,000 articles and 30,000+ views, built around long-form, data-informed coverage of the game. His work has appeared in The Hockey Writers, The Hockey News, Sport Mockery, and Last Word on Hockey, and has been featured alongside Forbes, NHL.com, CBC, and The Athletic on Swift Hockey's official press page. He has conducted written interviews with industry insiders including Jeff Paterson, and contributes analysis spanning trade targets, prospect development, team strategy, and NHL Culture.Christopher approaches hockey journalism through the lens of a historian and philosopher — studying how power, decision-making, and human behavior repeat across centuries, and bringing that depth of thinking to how he analyzes teams, front offices, and the forces that shape the modern game.