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TSN identifies U-24 players who earn 5-Star designation – call it excellence to the extreme – in five benchmark categories: smarts, skating, stickhandling, scoring and swagger.

Leafs winger Matthew Knies left Wednesday's game against Vegas after taking a controversial hit from Golden Knights defenceman Zach Whitecloud in the second period but head coach Craig Berube provided a positive update on the 22-year-old winger on Thursday.

“I guess I can apologize to the fans at home," veteran Calgary Flames forward Blake Coleman said Wednesday. "It’s not the most exciting hockey, but we’re piecing together wins."

An hour after the biggest moment of his professional football career, Nick Arbuckle and his four-year-old daughter, Aaliyah, shared a milkshake at Burger Crush, a 15-minute walk from BC Place. Salim Valji has more on Arbuckle's unique journey.

Twenty-three year-old Jack Hughes is No. 1 and 19-year-old sophomore Connor Bedard is No. 2 in our 2024-25 ranking of the Top 50 Under-24 players.

Toronto will be missing six forwards on Wednesday night against the Golden Knights. Mark Masters has more on how the Maple Leafs are managing short handed.

Bolstered by a group of five players born outside Canada, the NHL's all-time Stanley Cup leader has a core of young players projected to be as strong as or better than any in the league.

Auston Matthews is set to miss a seventh straight game on Wednesday as he is in Germany to see a doctor about his undisclosed upper-body injury. But general manager Brad Treliving is hopeful that Matthews will be able to return next week when the Leafs head to the Sunshine State.

What would be another team’s nightmare could end up being a blessing in disguise for a young group in the first year of a rebuild, Josh Lewenberg writes.