EXCLUSIVE: The tale of most amazing inaugural season for an expansion team in U.S. pro sports played out like a Hollywood movie, and now there’s a feature documentary about it. Sterling Productions, Osmosis Films and NHL Original Productions have teamed to produce Valiant, the story of the 2017-18 Vegas Golden Knights…

Wanna win a bar bet? Challenge that lug next to you to name the first American team to win the Stanley Cup. It’s not Boston, Detroit or Chicago but the Seattle Metropolitans in 1917. Now the NHL is coming back to the Pacific Northwest.

The league’s board of governors voted unanimously today to award its 32nd franchise…

NHL star Bob Probert, one half of the “Bruise Brothers,” was widely considered one of the toughest and most violent ice hockey players of all time. His role as the hard-hitting enforcer of the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks, as well as his hard-living ways and death at age 45, is the subject of a new…

EXCLUSIVE: The success of recent documentaries about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Fred Rogers proves that people are craving heroes right now. Enter Willie O’Ree, the NHL’s first black player, who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday.

He is the subject of Willie, an upcoming feature-length docu whose…

As the world’s premium hockey league builds on its global ambitions, 24 international territories will be getting 50 live primetime NHL games this season. The puck drops Saturday on the NHL European Game of the Week.

The weekly spotlight show kicks off with the first regular-season game in the 2018 NHL Global Series, p…

Whoever emerged as the victor in this year's Stanley Cup Final, we all knew it was going to be a franchise first for either the Vegas Golden Knights or the Washington Capitals and in the end, the veterans won.

Taking Game 5 of the NHL battle with a 4-3 win over the Sin City newbies, the 44-year old Capitals took the…

A 6-2 blowout by the Washington Capitals over the Vegas Golden Knights in last night's Game 4 (1.5/7) of the 2018 Stanley Cup Finals was a win for the DC NHL team and a win for NBC on a very unscripted night.

The Comcast-owned net's 8-11 PM coverage of the ice action topped primetime among adults 18-49 up against the S…

(Updated 12:52 PM with viewership numbers) The Stanley Cup Finals hit the ice for Game 1 between newbies the Vegas Golden Knights and the Washington Capitals in Sin City on NBC, but the real sports showdown last night was on TNT in Game 7 of the NBA playoffs’ Western Conference Finals.

The Houston Rockets didn't have a…

The opening round of the NHL’s 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs saw a pair of series sweeps and only one Game 7, but NBC Sports’ coverage still hit its best total-audience numbers in six years. And Wednesday night’s Game 7 of the Boston Bruins-Toronto Maple Leafs series was the most-watched first-round game ever on NBCSN.

Tot…

The 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs start tonight, and the NHL has drafted a familiar face to help casual fans better understand and enjoy the games. Snoop Dogg is set for a tutorial video series of sorts, in which he explains the rules and culture of hockey — as only “Dogg Cherry” aka “the Greater One” can.

Titled “Hockey 1…

Social video brand NowThis and the National Hockey League are launching Home Team: The Las Vegas Golden Knights, a Facebook Watch series that tracks the debut of the Vegas NHL franchise and its response to the Oct. 1 mass shooting at a country music festival. (See trailer below.)

Co-produced by NHL Original Productions…

2ND UPDATE, 7 PM: The lightning has passed, fans are returning to their seats, and the game is about to resume. Players were given 10 minutes to warm up after the 45-minute delay.

UPDATED, 6:18 PM: A lightning storm is predicted to hit the Green Bay area soon, so NFL officials have suspended the Bears-Packers game…