Next Man Up

The NHL season that went completely off the rails

A complete recap of the 2024-2025 NHL season from start to finish taking a look back at everything *worth another look* from a season that was one for the history book! It was an incredible year for the NHL and hockey as a whole and one that has undoubtedly changed the NHL forever. Not only did we finally get international best on best hockey with the 4 Nations Face-off which, fuelled by political drama, gave us possibly the greatest opening 9 seconds of hockey ever when Canada and USA faced each other for a chaotic game 1. We saw not 1 but 2 long standing Wayne Gretzky records broken this season as Sidney Crosby recorded a 20th point per game season while Alex Ovechkin became the highest scoring player of all time! A new season of course meant we saw new stars emerging in guys like Michkov, Celebrini, Hutson and more, we had full on chaos erupting during several games this season, Marc-Andre Fleury retiring, Brad Marchand & Mikko Rantanen traded and all of this is just touching the tip of the iceberg!