At the quarter mark of the season, expectations around the Anaheim Ducks had already begun to shift. Early projections centred on ending the franchise’s seven-year Stanley Cup Playoff drought.

The Celtics entered the 2025-26 season with muted expectations and some murmurs from outsiders that they should tank. But through the opening 20 games of the season — roughly a quarter of the way into ...

The Pittsburgh Penguins coach has guided them to a top-three position in the Metropolitan Division standings at the one-quarter mark of his first season after they missed the Stanley Cup Playoffs in ...