The New York Islanders undoubtedly had the best draft out of all 32 teams. The team made the obvious pick in drafting Matthew ...

NHL draft that took far too long has mercifully finished. Suffice to say, any of the 26 teams who voted for decentralization, ...

NHL Draft may have lacked the star power recent editions of the annual event had, but it didn't lack in intrigue.

With the 2025 NHL draft in the books, hockey fans have free agency on July 1 and their respective teams' development camps to ...

The selected players ranged from Matthew Schaefer, taken by the New York Islanders with the No. 1 pick and regarded as a ...

The first round of the 2025 NHL draft is in the books. Locally, the Red Wings added some skill and grit by selecting winger ...

New Islanders general manager Mathieu Darche also was busy before the draft. The Islanders traded defenseman Noah Dobson to ...

Schaefer, a defenseman with Erie of the Ontario Hockey League, was selected No. 1 by the New York Islanders in the 2025 Upper ...

Matthew Schaefer wasn't going to the 2025 Upper Deck NHL Draft without his mother close to his heart.

NHL Draft is through it's opening round and onto the final six. No. 1 overall pick and new Edmonton Oilers star Matthew ...

LOS ANGELES – The expectation always was for the Islanders to select defenseman Matthew Schaefer with the first pick in the ...

As Schaefer’s NHL prospects rose in 2023 while he was playing for the Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League, his billet ...