Jesperi Kotkaniemi played his 400th career game Tuesday, and what a 400 games it has been in the NHL. The Finnish center was the third pick of the 2018 NHL draft by Montreal, just behind Andrei ...

Editor's note: Scroll to the bottom to find more draft profiles for potential Stars picks at 13. Prospects already performing against grown physically mature adults come with more information than ...

In return for signing Kotkaniemi to a one-year, $6.1 million deal, the Hurricanes have sent their first and third round picks in the 2022 NHL Draft to the Canadiens as compensation.

NEW YORK --Jesperi Kotkaniemi said he doesn't think about the what ifs of how he entered the NHL, but what if he wasn't the No. 3 pick in the 2018 NHL Draft and instead was a third-round pick, or ...

At 21, Kotkaniemi is a good young hockey player who could develop into quite a playmaker at the NHL level. But it's the presentation that counts here, and it's why hockey fans have been enjoying ...

Jesperi Kotkaniemi (15), shown in a June 2021 Stanley Cup finals game against Tampa Bay, has joined the Carolina Hurricanes via an offer sheet by the Hurricanes that Montreal did not match.

A scary high stick to the Hurricanes’ Jesperi Kotkaniemi turned out to be a best-case scenario for the Hurricanes: The forward escaped a serious eye injury, and the Canes eliminated the Devils ...

Jesperi Kotkaniemi signed a one-year, $6.1 million contract with the Carolina Hurricanes after the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday announced their decision to not match an offer sheet tendered by ...

Kotkaniemi provided a number of examples of why he belongs in the NHL in the Canadiens 4-3 overtime loss against the Ottawa Senators on Saturday. These are just a few of them.

Montreal Canadiens’ Jesperi Kotkaniemi carries his equipment along a corridor as he goes through his medical evaluation in Brossard, Quebec, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press ...

Jesperi Kotkaniemi scored his second goal of the game just 24 seconds after the Dallas Stars tied it in the third period, lifting the visiting Carolina Hurricanes to a 2-1 victory Tuesday night.

The expectations seemed realistic. After a brief stint in the NHL, Jesperi Kotkaniemi would return to the Liiga, where he would make the transition to centre coached by his father, Mikael. He’d ...