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Former Panthers Defenseman Coming Out Of Retirement To Play In Finland
Former Florida Panthers defenseman Markus Nutivaara is coming out of retirement and joining Karpat, a Finnish team in Liiga.
The 31-year-old's last professional hockey game came with the Panthers during the 2021-22 season, where he recorded one assist in one game. He signed with the San Jose Sharks the following year, but did not play in any games. He remained unsigned for the next two seasons but has decided to return to hockey, joining Karpat, a team with which he has played at several levels.
Nutivaara worked his way through the Finnish ranks playing with Karpat at the U-16, U-18 and U-20 level before joining their professional team, winning a championship.
The Oulu, FIN. native was selected by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the seventh round (189th overall) in the 2015 NHL Draft. He made his NHL debut in the 2016-17 season, scoring two goals and seven points in 66 games.
In 2018, Nutivaara signed a four-year, $10.8 million ($2.7 million annually) contract with the Blue Jackets but was acquired by the Panthers less than two years later. He played in 30 games during the 2020-21 season, notching 10 assists. The final year of his contract saw him receive just one game of NHL action before signing a one-year, $1.5 million contract with the Sharks, but he did not play any NHL or AHL games with the franchise.
Now, Nutivaara will join a Karpat side, which features several NHL prospects and former NHL players.
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NHL Division Odds Breakdown: Panthers, Hurricanes, and Golden Knights Lead the Pack
Sportsbooks release betting odds for NHL divisional races for 2025-26 season.
As the new NHL season approaches, we get fresh betting odds from the sportsbooks on who will finish a top each of the divisions next season. While perennial contenders still hold the edge in most divisions, there are a few surprises that could make for some intriguing bets. We see some interesting values on rising teams and some steals for likely contenders. Here’s a breakdown of the current odds across all four divisions.
Atlantic Division
- Florida Panthers (+135)
- Tampa Bay Lightning (+350)
- Toronto Maple Leafs (+390)
- Ottawa Senators (+750)
- Montreal Canadiens (+1500)
- Detroit Red Wings (+3100)
- Boston Bruins (+3500)
- Buffalo Sabres (+5000)
Without question, the back-to-back Stanley Cup champions lead the way with two division titles of the last four years. It's always a tightly contested battle as there is always one team having a breakout season like last season's winners in the Maple Leafs. Toronto likely won't win again as there has not been a repeat champion in six seasons but the Bolts will be in the picture once again plus the Senators, Habs and Red Wings have all been on the rise in recent years. Will it be enough to catch up to the Panthers or will they take control over the league once again? Florida has the fifth-hardest schedule next season but it likely still won't slow down this moving train that hasn't stopped for anyone in two years.
Pick: Florida Panthers (+135)
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Metropolitan Division
- Carolina Hurricanes (+120)
- New Jersey Devils (+370)
- New York Rangers (+550)
- Washington Capitals (+650)
- New York Islanders (+1800)
- Columbus Blue Jackets (+2100)
- Philadelphia Flyers (+2200)
- Pittsburgh Penguins (+8000)
The Hurricanes are the clear frontrunners in the Metropolitan, powered by even more blockbuster adds in Nikolaj Ehlers and K'Andre Miller plus will see another year of development for their elite young talent in Jackson Blake and Alexander Nikishin among others.
This division feels the most like a one horse race as the Devils are coming off a season where they missed the playoffs due to an injured roster, the Rangers made little changes despite their troubling season last year and the Capitals are expected to fall back to normalcy following a near-President's trophy winning season. The Canes will look to win their division for the third time in the last five years.
Pick: Carolina Hurricanes (+120)
Pacific Division
- Edmonton Oilers (+155)
- Vegas Golden Knights (+155)
- Los Angeles Kings (+470)
- Vancouver Canucks (+1500)
- Calgary Flames (+2900)
- Anaheim Ducks (+5500)
- Seattle Kraken (+6000)
- San Jose Sharks (+21000)
The battle between the Oilers and Golden Knights will be an elite one as the back-to-back conference champions have still never won the divisional crown. They will be attempting to do so against a Golden Knights team that has only gotten stronger with the addition of a 100-point player in Mitch Marner.
The two clubs will also be looking to stave off threats like the Kings or the rising Ducks that could put together a solid push. The most likely outcome is another Golden Knights division title, marking fifth over the last nine years as the Oilers have made more horizontal moves to stay competitive rather than propelling moves like the Golden Knights have seemingly made.
Pick: Vegas Golden Knights (+155)
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Central Division
- Dallas Stars (+200)
- Colorado Avalanche (+200)
- Winnipeg Jets (+600)
- Minnesota Wild (+900)
- Utah Mammoth (+1000)
- St. Louis Blues (+1300)
- Nashville Predators (+2600)
- Chicago Blackhawks (+23000)
The tightest division in the league is the Central as they routinely produce contenders out of the West and will make for another hard-fought war to win the divisional crown. This is the only division with co-favorites in Dallas and Colorado, both sitting at +200 as two of the most complete teams in the conference. The reigning President's trophy winners in Winnipeg will look to repeat as divisional champs while the Blues look to build off a solid campaign last season and the Mammoth look to finally make some noise thanks to their aggressive management and ownership group.
It'll be hard to overcome the Jets once again as they've kept all of their same defence core that has helped give them the best defence in the league for two straight seasons plus replaced the loss of a key player in Nikolaj Ehlers with another former 70-point scorer in Gustav Nyquist.
Pick: Winnipeg Jets (+600)
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Ranking All 32 NHL Teams' Active Goals Leader
Becoming an NHL franchise’s active leader in goal-scoring often takes a ton of talent, consistency, loyalty and longevity.
Of course, the bar isn’t as high for rebuilding or recently rebuilt squads. We’re seeing young talent forge a new path toward Stanley Cup contention. The same low bar goes for the newest NHL franchises, although enough time has passed for some of them that their all-time goals leader doesn’t play for the team anymore – or hasn’t been active for years.
In fact, only six NHL franchises have one of their active players leading their all-time goals list.
Here are the active goals leaders for all 32 NHL teams, ranked from the most to the fewest goals. If a player is active in the NHL but doesn’t play for that team, they don’t count. It’s no surprise who sits in first.
1. Washington Capitals
Alex Ovechkin, 897
The Capitals’ captain broke the NHL’s all-time regular-season goals record in April and scored twice more to inch closer to the 900-goal mark. Ovechkin’s just 43 goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s record for the most in the regular season and playoffs combined, but he has one year left on his contract.
2. Pittsburgh Penguins
Sidney Crosby, 625
Crosby’s two-year contract extension kicks in this upcoming season. The captain’s 66 goals away from the Penguins’ all-time goals record set by No. 66, Mario Lemieux. It can be done.
3. Los Angeles Kings
Anze Kopitar, 440
Kopitar is the Kings’ all-time games played leader by a long shot, with 1,454 in the regular season. He’s 110 goals behind Marcel Dionne for second place on the franchise’s goal-scoring list and 117 behind Luc Robitaille.
4. Toronto Maple Leafs
Auston Matthews, 401
Matthews averages 0.64 goals per game, which is the seventh highest in NHL history among players who scored at least 100 times in their career. Ovechkin’s rate is 0.60, but he’s also played more than double the number of seasons. Nevertheless, the chase is on for the Maple Leafs’ captain.
T5. Dallas Stars
Jamie Benn, 399
One of the NHL’s final four players who don’t wear a visor could become the 111th player in NHL history to score 400 goals in the regular season. Take away the 123 goals Mike Modano scored with the Minnesota North Stars, and Benn is only 36 goals away from passing him for the most in Dallas Stars history.
T5. Edmonton Oilers
Leon Draisaitl, 399
Draisaitl and McDavid both average 0.51 goals per game, but the former has played 78 more games. Draisaitl won the ‘Rocket’ Richard Trophy for the most goals in 2024-25, and he also scored the most important goals in the NHL during the regular season, according to Ken Campbell’s Situational Scoring model.
7. Boston Bruins
David Pastrnak, 391
The Bruins have been around for more than 100 years, and Pastrnak is only 155 goals away from passing Johnny Bucyk and leading the franchise in goal-scoring. I say “only,” because he’s just 29, and he’s scored 151 goals in the past three seasons.
8. Colorado Avalanche
Nathan MacKinnon, 367
MacKinnon can reach second place on the Nordiques-Avalanche’s all-time assists and points lists in 2025-26. He’s fifth in goal-scoring, and he trails Joe Sakic by 258. In just Avalanche history, MacKinnon is tied with Sakic for first in points with 1,015, sits first in assists 648 and trails Sakic by 24 in goals.
9. Tampa Bay Lightning
Nikita Kucherov, 357
Kucherov leads the Lightning in all-time assists, with 637, but he’s fourth in goals and needs 199 to pass Steven Stamkos for first place. At 32 years old and with a career high of 44 goals, Kucherov could have to play the rest of his NHL career in Tampa Bay to break that record.
10. Winnipeg Jets
Mark Scheifele, 336
Scheifele has the most goals in Atlanta Thrashers and Jets 2.0 history. Jets 1.0 history belongs to the inactive Arizona Coyotes, but if we were to include it here, Dale Hawerchuk would have the most goals, with 379.
11. San Jose Sharks
Logan Couture, 323
The Sharks’ captain hasn’t played since January 2024 and announced this past April that he’s stepping away from professional hockey due to injury, but he has two more years left on his contract. Aside from Couture, the next-highest all-time active scorer on the rebuilding Sharks is William Eklund, who has 35.
12. Nashville Predators
Filip Forsberg, 318
Forsberg already has 118 more goals than the man in second place on the Predators’ franchise goal-scoring list, David Legwand, who scored 210. Nashville acquired Forsberg from the Capitals in exchange for Martin Erat and Michael Latta in 2013.
13. New York Islanders
Anders Lee, 289
After the Islanders traded their longtime center, Brock Nelson, at the 2025 trade deadline, Lee became the team’s active goals leader. If the Islanders’ captain doubled his goals total, he’d have five more than the franchise’s all-time leader, Mike Bossy, and his 573.
14. Florida Panthers
Aleksander Barkov, 286
Barkov is the Panthers’ all-time leader in games played (804), goals, assists (496), points (782), power-play points (243), shorthanded points (23), game-winning goals (52) and shots (2,097). But the back-to-back Stanley Cup champion is only second in plus-minus, with Gustav Forsling’s plus-166 rating leading his plus-124.
15. Carolina Hurricanes
Sebastian Aho, 283
Aho is 100 goals away from passing Ron Francis for the most in Hartford Whalers and Hurricanes history. He’s only 28 years old. It may take three or four seasons to break the record, but expect it to happen eventually.
16. New York Rangers
Mika Zibanejad, 250
Zibanejad has many regular-season goals with the Rangers as Mark Messier. Chris Kreider scored 326 times for the Blueshirts but was traded to the Anaheim Ducks this off-season.
17. Detroit Red Wings
Dylan Larkin, 242
If Larkin tripled his goal total, he’d still trail Gordie Howe’s 786 for the most in the near-century of Red Wings history. But the Red Wings’ captain has nearly two-and-a-half times the number of goals of the player in second place on their active list, Lucas Raymond (98).
18. Montreal Canadiens
Brendan Gallagher, 239
Gallagher is tied with Bob Gainey for 15th place on the Canadiens’ all-time list. He has 101 more goals than captain Nick Suzuki.
19. Calgary Flames
Mikael Backlund, 215
Backlund has played the most seasons in Atlanta and Calgary Flames history, with 17 so far. Jarome Iginla played 16 seasons in Calgary but played 153 more games and scored 310 more goals – the Flames’ current captain played 24 NHL games across his first two seasons before making the roster full-time in his third.
20. Philadelphia Flyers
Sean Couturier, 206
The chase is on. That is, Couturier’s chase of new Flyers coach Rick Tocchet’s 232 goals for 13th place on the franchise list.
21. Vancouver Canucks
Brock Boeser, 204
When it looked like Boeser could have headed elsewhere in free agency, he signed a seven-year contract to stay with the Canucks. If he continues his career average of 0.37 goals per game, stays healthy and plays out his contract with the Canucks, he’ll pass Daniel Sedin for the most lamplighters in franchise history.
22. Columbus Blue Jackets
Boone Jenner, 199
Jenner, 32, needs 91 goals to pass Rick Nash for the most in Blue Jackets history. He has the most tipped-in (36) and backhand (19) goals in franchise history since tracking began in 2009-10.
23. Ottawa Senators
Brady Tkachuk, 191
Tkachuk turns 26 in September and is fourth in Senators all-time scoring, trailing Daniel Alfredsson by 227. Shoutout to Cy Denneny, who had 246 goals in 306 games for the original Ottawa Senators franchise that ran from the NHL’s first season in 1917-18 to 1934-35 when it folded after one year as the St. Louis Eagles.
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24. Minnesota Wild
Kirill Kaprizov, 185
Among players who scored at least 100 times, Wild left winger Kaprizov ranks 13th in NHL history in goals per game, with 0.58. That’s tied with Brett Hull. Expect a big raise on his $9-million cap hit when his contract expires after this upcoming season.
25. Buffalo Sabres
Tage Thompson, 173
Thompson recorded a league-high 106 mph shot this past season. His Sabres teammate appeared to have blocked the one-timer in front of the net. Ouch.
26. New Jersey Devils
Nico Hischier, 171
Hischier is 14 goals behind the Canucks’ Elias Pettersson for the most in the 2017 NHL draft class, but the Devils’ captain scored 20 more goals than Pettersson in 2024-25.
27. St. Louis Blues
Brayden Schenn, 169
Schenn only needs 15 points to become one of the Blues’ top 10 all-time point scorers. But he needs 26 goals to make the franchise’s top 10 goal-scorers list, and he hasn’t scored that many in a season since 2017-18.
28. Vegas Golden Knights
William Karlsson, 161
One of the ‘Original Misfits’ became the active leader after the Golden Knights didn’t re-sign Jonathan Marchessault in the summer of 2024. Marchessault put up 192 goals with Vegas. As for Karlsson, he scored six goals the season before he joined the Golden Knights and scored 43 the year afterward.
29. Seattle Kraken
Jared McCann, 118
McCann is the all-time leading scorer for the Kraken, which enter their fifth season in 2025-26. Time flies.
30. Anaheim Ducks
Troy Terry, 116
Corey Perry, Rickard Rakell and Adam Henrique are still active NHLers and scored more goals for the Ducks than Terry, but of course, they’re no longer on the squad. Terry scored a career-high 37 goals in 2021-22 and surpassed 20 in the three seasons afterward.
31. Chicago Blackhawks
Connor Bedard, 45
Trust the process. Seven former Blackhawks players who remain active NHLers scored more goals in Chicago than Bedard, but the 20-year-old has plenty of time to climb the rankings and lead his rebuilding team toward success.
32. Utah Mammoth
Clayton Keller, 30
Keller led the way in Utah’s first year. Instead of a traditional relocation, the Coyotes transferred their hockey assets to Utah’s new franchise.
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Which opponents did Nashville Predators have best record against during 2024-25 season?
There wasn't a lot of winning to be had for the Nashville Predators last season.
Thirty wins during the 2024-25 season was the Predators' lowest 82-game total since the 2002-03 season, where they won just 27 games in their fifth season of existence.
However, believe it or not, the Predators did win six regular-season series, three of which they went undefeated. Here's which teams Nashville had no issue handling during its infamous 2024-25 campaign.
Vancouver Canucks
Record: 2-1
Things fell apart for the Canucks toward the end of the regular season. They were a constant Wild Card contender throughout the year, but finished the season six points outside of a playoff spot.
The Predators picked up a pair of wins over Vancouver in November and January, which included a 3-0 shutout to start the new year. Juuse Saros made 27 saves in the effort for his fourth shutout of the season.
Steven Stamkos had three goals in two matchups against the Canucks, which included two goals in the 5-3 win on Nov. 17.
Their final matchup of the season on Jan. 29 in Nashville ended in a 3-1 loss.
Utah (Mammoth) Hockey Club
Record: 2-1
Scoring was tight between the Predators and the former Utah Hockey Club, now the Mammoth, as Nashville had 11 goals for to its 10 goals against.
At the team's first-ever meeting on Nov. 9, Saros made 27 saves in a 4-0 victory. Filip Forsberg lit the lamp twice while Roman Josi had two assists.
The next two meetings between Nashville and Utah came within four games of each other in the final four games of the regular season.
On April 10, the Predators eeked out a 4-3 shootout win on the road. Despite allowing three goals, Saros made 39 saves on 42 shots and stonewalled Utah in the shootout. Forsberg scored his 31st goal of the season and the shootout winner.
At this point, going into the final game on April 14, the Predators had an 8-3 scoring advantage on Utah. However, all of that nearly shifted in a 7-3 loss in Nashville.
The Predators trailed by a goal going into the third period before they were outscored, 3-0, in the final 20 minutes of the game.
Chicago Blackhawks
Record: 3-1
The Predators won only one series in the Central Division this past season, and it came against the only other team ranked below them: the Chicago Blackhawks.
Nashville took three out of four games in the regular season, walking away with six out of eight possible points.
After going down 2-0 in their first meeting on Oct. 25 in Chicago, the Predators rattled off three straight goals in the successful comeback effort. Gustav Nyquist had a goal and an assist in the second period.
Jan. 16 was another 3-2 victory, but it came in a shootout in Nashville. Stamkos opened the game with a power-play goal and ended it with the winning goal in the shootout.
Chicago would get its lick-back right before the 4 Nations Face-Off break on Feb. 7 in a dominating 6-2 win. Ryan Donato had four points (2 goals, 2 assists), and Nashville was outscored 5-0 from the end of the first period to midway through the third period. It was the Predators' sixth straight loss.
However, the Predators ended the series on a high note. They walked away with a third 3-2 victory, this time in overtime on March 8 in Nashville. Stamkos scored all three goals, recording his 14th career hat trick.
Carolina Hurricanes
Record: 2-0
The Predators extinguished one of the hottest teams in the NHL, the Carolina Hurricanes, this past season.
Carolina, who made it all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals, struggled against Nashville. In their first meeting on Dec. 23, the Predators opened up a 4-0 lead and the Hurricanes couldn't catch up. Jonathan Marchessault had two goals and an assist in the 5-2 win.
The final meeting, which took place on March 25 in Raleigh, had fewer scoring points. Nashville built up a 2-0 lead before Carolina cut it in half in the second period. It was a third-period goal by Luke Evangelista that gave Nashville insurance in a 3-1 win.
Boston Bruins
Record: 2-0
Nashville outscored the Bruins by a whopping 10-3 margin in two games, with the first meeting coming in shutout fashion.
On Oct. 22, Juuse Saros made 33 saves to snap the Predators' five-game losing streak in a 4-0 victory. Ryan O'Reilly had a goal and an assist in the win.
The next meeting on March 4 in Boston, the Predators put up another big number on the Bruins in a 6-3 win. O'Reilly had two goals and an assist, bumping his season point total against the Bruins to five in two games, and Stamkos had a goal and two assists.
It was a tight game going into the third period before the Predators outscored the Bruins, 3-1.
San Jose Sharks
Record: 3-0
It was goals galore between the Predators and Sharks this season as both teams combined for 28 goals in three games. 23 of those goals came within three days of each other.
The Jan. 21 meeting in Nashville saw the Sharks build up a wide 5-1 lead before choking it away. Nashville scored six unanswered goals, led by a goal and two assists from Marchessault, for a 7-5 win.
The next game on Jan. 24 in San Jose had more fireworks. There were 53 combined penalty minutes and 11 combined goals. The Predators had a 5-2 lead before the Sharks came back to tie the game.
It was a power-play goal from Fedor Svechkov that allowed the Predators to escape with a 6-5 win. Forsberg had two goals in the win.
There were still many penalties but fewer goals in the final meeting of the season on March 11 in San Jose. The Predators logged 14 penalty minutes to the Sharks' 20 in a narrow 3-2 win to close out the season series.
Kieffer Bellows cracked a 2-2 tie in the third period to give Nashville the green light to victory.
Ex-Canucks First-Rounder Signs In Slovakia
Canadian winger Jake Virtanen, 28, has signed a one-year contract with Dukla Michalovce, the Slovak Extraliga club announced on Wednesday.
Virtanen, who played in the NHL for the Vancouver Canucks from 2015 to 2021, spent last season playing for the DEL’s Iserlohn Roosters, where he recorded 19 points in 46 games.
Born in the Vancouver suburb of New Westerminster, BC, Virtanen played junior hockey for the WHL’s Calgary Hitmen.
Picked sixth overall by hometown Vancouver in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, Virtanen’s career never met its expectations. He recorded exactly 100 points in 317 NHL games spread over six seasons before his contract was bought out by the Canucks in May 2021 after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against him. He was cleared of all charges in 2022.
Since then, Virtanen has played in Russia with Spartak Moscow, in Switzerland with EHC Visp and in Germany with the Fischtown Pinguins and Iserlohn.
Dutch Winger Leaves NHL, Signs In KHLDutch-Canadian
winger Daniel Sprong, 28, has signed a one-year contract with CSKA
Moscow, the KHL club announced on Wednesday.
Internationally, Virtanen represented Canada at one IIHF U-18 World Championships and at two World Junior Championships, winning a gold medal at the 2015 World Juniors.
During his time in Vancouver, Virtanen became somewhat infamous for the “Shotgun Jake” campaign. Whenever Virtanen scored a goal, fans would post a picture or video of themselves on social media “shotgunning” a beer – puncturing the side of the can and quickly drinking its contents – using the hashtag #ShotgunJake.
Since being promoted to the top Slovak league in 2019, Michalovce has finished second in the regular season twice and made the semifinals three times. Last season, the team finished ninth and lost in the play-in round before the quarterfinals.
Photo © Marc DesRosiers-Imagn Images.
Interview: Filip Chytil 100% Healthy ‘Knock On Wood’; Canucks Have ‘Great Potential For The Future’Last
season was an eventful one for Filip Chytil that saw him get traded
for the first time in his NHL career, but it ended prematurely due to
a concussion on March 15. Back
home in Czechia for the summer, his
summer training is in full swing.
Maple Leafs And NHL Find New Partner For Streaming Rights In Over 200 Countries
NHL.TV is a popular streaming service available in over 200 countries for watching NHL games, a nice luxury for Toronto Maple Leafs fans who live overseas. That, however, is set to change.
The league announced Wednesday that NHL.TV will be moving to the streaming service platform DAZN for all nations outside of Canada, the United States, and the Nordic nations, beginning with the 2025-26 season. According to the press release, NHL.TV will be available on DAZN as a standalone subscription or as an add-on to existing DAZN packages. This service will cover nearly 200 countries worldwide, excluding the U.S., Canada, and the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden).
Essentially, the NHL.TV service as it was previously known will no longer be available directly through the league in any of the remaining countries. This move mirrors similar transitions in North America, where NHL.TV previously shifted to streaming partners. In Canada, NHL.TV’s offerings are now under the Sportsnet+ Premium banner, while in the United States, NHL.TV is exclusively available through ESPN+.
It is currently unclear if any functionality will change under DAZN’s management of the package. Previously, under NHL.TV, every game was available and archived for over a decade, including home, away, and national broadcasts. DAZN holds international NFL rights, was the broadcast home of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025, and streams over 90,000 live events annually.
(Top image credit: John E. Sokolowski-Imagn Images)
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