But Boston also isn’t allocating $30 million just for Zadorov to hit opposing skaters into next week. They believe he has far more to give as a featured, top-pairing defenseman — especially if ...

Brad Marchand selected some choice words to describe Nikita Zadorov. The Bruins captain called the club’s newest defenseman a “predator.” He called him an “animal.” In any other walk of ...

If you were brainstorming what the ideal 2024 NHL offseason would look like for the Boston Bruins, adding a left-shot defenseman almost certainly would have been on the list. The B's checked off ...

Yet they were presented as the fix, the perceived stabilizing forces — Lindholm to drive the offense and Zadorov to bring spine ... center Jonathan Toews. With Kane coming aboard the next ...

This article originally appeared on PGHHockeyNOW.com. The NHL hopes that Evgeni Malkin and Nikita Zadorov learned a lesson Saturday morning. The league issues the maximum $5,000 fine to each for ...

defenseman Nikita Zadorov gave a brief response when The Athletic's Fluto Shinzawa asked him about goalie Jeremy Swayman's attempt to fight Kings netminder Darcy Kuemper after a hit on Marat ...

In 2022-23, while playing for the Flames, Zadorov injured Nick Foligno’s knee with a clean but consequential open-ice hit. Foligno missed the rest of the regular season because of the injury.

Even with the playoffs long gone, David Pastrnak had a spectacular season in Boston. Defenseman Nikita Zadorov knows that the Bruins can’t keep wasting great Pastrnak seasons. “I mean ...

It takes only a few minutes perusing through Nikita Zadorov’s highlight reel to glean why the 29-year-old defenseman was so coveted by Boston this offseason. The Russian-born defenseman is more ...