To accommodate that move, going from the current 82-game schedule to an 84-game one, LeBrun reported for The Athletic that ...

Thursday night's USA-Canada championship game at the 4 Nations Face-Off showed viewers' appetite for best-on-best international hockey. The network's previous top hockey telecast was the Florida ...

Also, with the possibility of a first-round series between the Avs and Stars, many around the NHL see reason to change the playoff format.