NHL Player News
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Oliver Ekman-Larsson D | TOR
Maple Leafs' Oliver Ekman-Larsson: Helps out twice Monday
Ekman-Larsson registered two assists, put two shots on net and recorded three blocked shots in Monday's 5-4 overtime win over the Ducks.
Ekman-Larsson recorded a secondary helper on each of Toronto's first two goals Monday. Overall, the 34-year-old blueliner has 30 assists, 38 points, 104 shots on net, 82 hits and 66 blocked shots through 72 games this season. Despite his run of assists from earlier in the season drying up over time, he managed to secure his highest number of helpers in a regular season since the 2018-19 campaign. Ekman-Larsson has three assists over his last four games and is a decent waiver-wire pickup in deep fantasy leagues that value category coverage.
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Philip Broberg D | STL
Blues' Philip Broberg: Nets PP goal Monday
Broberg scored a power-play goal in Monday's 5-4 loss to the Sharks.
Broberg has found the back of the net in back-to-back games, and both goals have come with the man advantage. The 24-year-old defenseman has been playing well of late and is quietly riding a five-game point streak, setting a new season-best mark, as his previous longest point streak was four games between March 4 and March 10. One of the team's top blueliners, Broberg has nine points (three goals, six assists) in 14 games since the beginning of March.
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Morgan Rielly D | TOR
Maple Leafs' Morgan Rielly: One of each in OT win
Rielly tallied a goal, recorded an assist, fired two shots on net and had two blocked shots in Monday's 5-4 overtime win over Anaheim.
Rielly roped the game-winning assist towards the back post, where John Tavares buried the puck to give the Maple Leafs the OT victory. Rielly also tallied a goal late in the third period to give Toronto a 4-3 lead with three minutes remaining in regulation. Overall, the 32-year-old blueliner has 10 goals, 25 assists, 133 shots on net, 31 hits and 101 blocked shots across 71 games this season. Monday's performance was Rielly's first multi-point game since Jan. 17. While his offensive contributions have been few and far between in the new calendar year, he still has a shot to match his point total of 41 across 82 regular-season games from a year ago.
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Adam Boqvist D | NYI
Islanders' Adam Boqvist: Two-point effort Monday
Boqvist picked up two assists, one on the power play, in Monday's 8-3 loss to Pittsburgh.
The 25-year-old blueliner helped set up second-period tallies by Anders Lee and Mathew Barzal as the Isles grabbed a 2-0 lead before imploding. It was Boqvist's first multi-point performance in 26 games during a season in which he's struggled just to get into the lineup, and he's still looking for his first goal of 2025-26.
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Kris Letang D | PIT
Penguins' Kris Letang: Two helpers in Monday's rout
Letang produced two assists in Monday's 8-3 romp over the Islanders.
The 38-year-old blueliner had a hand in tallies by Anthony Mantha in the second period and Bryan Rust in the third. The performance snapped a brutal drought for Letang -- he'd managed just one assist in his last 14 games, and his last multi-point effort came back on Nov. 28. On the season, Letang has scraped together three goals and 30 points in 68 contests, and while he looks to be approaching the end of the road on his NHL career, he still has two years and $12.2 million left on his contract.
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Alexandre Carrier D | MON
Canadiens' Alexandre Carrier: Suffers upper-body injury
Carrier will be sidelined 2-4 weeks after sustaining an upper-body injury, the Habs announced Tuesday.
Even if Carrier is on the short end of his recovery timeline, he figures to miss the rest of the regular season. With the blueliner on the shelf, Lane Hutson could see a significant uptick in ice time while Adam Engstrom steps into the lineup. Assuming this is the end of Carrier's regular season, he'll end the year having generated a career-high seven goals to go with 15 assists.
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Cale Makar D | COL
Avalanche's Cale Makar: Sustains upper-body injury Monday
Makar has been ruled out for the remainder of Monday's game versus Calgary due to an upper-body injury.
Makar's last shift came late in the second period, and he wasn't on the bench to start the third. The superstar blueliner racked up three helpers, including two on the power play, and a plus-1 rating in 17:15 of ice time prior to exiting the contest. Until the Avalanche provide more information on Makar's status going forward, the 27-year-old can be considered day-to-day ahead of Wednesday's home game against the Canucks.
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Yan Kuznetsov D | CGY
Flames' Yan Kuznetsov: Moves past injury
Kuznetsov (upper body) will be a healthy scratch for Monday's game in Colorado, per Derek Wills of Sportsnet 960 The Fan.
Kuznetsov hasn't been in the lineup since March 14 versus the Islanders. Joel Hanley (upper body) will miss the rest of the 2025-26 campaign, so Kuznetsov is currently the Flames' seventh blueliner, but it remains to be seen when he'll get back into the lineup. Calgary's next game is Thursday in Vegas.
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Zachary Metsa D | BUF
Sabres' Zach Metsa: Heads back to NHL
Metsa was recalled from AHL Rochester on Monday.
Metsa will return to the Sabres just four days after being loaned back to the AHL. During that time, he played a trio of games with Rochester and will return to Buffalo in time for Tuesday's home clash with the Islanders. Across 38 games with the Sabres this season, the 27-year-old bluliner has six points, 22 shots on net and 28 blocked shots. Metsa will likely serve as a depth defenseman during the Sabres' push toward securing their first playoff appearance since the 2010-11 season.
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Adam Engstrom D | MON
Canadiens' Adam Engstrom: Brought up from AHL
Engstrom was summoned from AHL Laval on Monday.
Engstrom hasn't earned a point in 11 NHL outings this season while supplying seven shots on net, five blocked shots and four hits. He has notched 10 goals and 24 assists in 45 AHL outings during the 2025-26 campaign.