NEW YORK -- The 2025 NHL draft will take place June 27 and 28 at L.A. Live's Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, the league announced Saturday.

The draft will be the first for hockey to use the decentralized model that has been standard for the NFL and NBA for decades, with team staffs participating virtually from their home cities.

Commissioner Gary Bettman and top prospects will still be in attendance for the event. NHL president of events and content Steve Mayer said "prospects and our fans can expect a first-rate event with a new look and creative approach," adding that details will be released in the coming months.

The draft was conducted in person the past three years after two years of doing it virtually because of the pandemic.

SUNRISE, Fla. -- Florida Panthers star forward Matthew Tkachuk sat out Saturday's game against the Seattle Kraken because of a lower-body injury.

Panthers coach Paul Maurice announced Tkachuk's absence after the pregame morning skate.

Tkachuk first experienced discomfort during the 4 Nations Face-Off, when he helped lead the United States to the tournament final. He was limited to 6:47 of ice time in the United States' 3-2 finals loss in overtime against Canada on Thursday.

Maurice said Tkachuk will undergo more tests in the next two days before the Panthers determine the next steps. The Panthers have a road game in Nashville, before their Stanley Cup Final rematch game against the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night.

The 27-year-old Tkachuk has 22 goals and 35 assists for the Panthers this season.

Tkachuk was one of four Panthers who played in the 4 Nations Face-Off. Sam Bennett and Sam Reinhart played for tournament champion Canada and Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov represented Finland.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Arsenal's Premier League title hopes suffered a hammer blow when Jarrod Bowen's goal just before halftime gave London rivals West Ham United a surprise 1-0 away victory on Saturday.

Bowen headed in from close range in the 44th minute and Arsenal's attack, missing a host of injured forwards, could not prevent a first home league defeat of the season.

Arsenal barely troubled visiting keeper Alphonse Areola, managing two shots on target, and played the last 20 minutes with 10 men after substitute Myles Lewis-Skelly was red-carded for hauling down Mohammed Kudus.

Mikel Arteta's second-placed side have 53 points from 26 games, eight behind leaders Liverpool who face champions Manchester City away on Sunday.

Arsenal's last home league defeat came 10 months ago against Aston Villa and that ultimately proved decisive as they failed to prevent Manchester City winning a fourth successive title.

As Arsenal's fans drifted out of the stadium on Saturday they surely felt as though another title bid was set to end in failure, especially if Liverpool win on Sunday.

With Kai Havertz, Gabriel Jesus, Gabriel Martinelli and Bukayo Saka all out injured, makeshift forward Mikel Merino proved the unlikely solution last week with both goals in a 2-0 victory at Leicester City.

Arsenal could have closed the gap with Liverpool to five points and exerted some real pressure on Arne Slot's side if they had beaten a West Ham side they trounced 5-2 away this season.

Instead, West Ham were full value for only their second win in six league games under new manager Graham Potter.

Arsenal's attacking limitations were cruelly exposed in a first half in which West Ham's defence was able to stroll on a balmy spring-like afternoon in north London.

"It's a big blow. The performance today wasn't good enough. Really disappointed," Arsenal skipper Martin Odegaard said.

"We lacked a bit in final third efficiency. We have to see the game back and analyse it but it wasn't good enough."

Apart from a thunderous shot by Riccardo Calafiori that went straight at West Ham keeper Areola, the hosts did nothing with their territorial superiority.

West Ham, on the other hand, looked dangerous on the counter-attack with Tomás Soucek twice heading off target and skipper Bowen dragging a shot wide.

With half-time approaching Arsenal's fans were already getting restless when West Ham took the lead.

Bowen won the ball on the edge of his own area and fed it to Aaron Wan-Bissaka who cruised down the right side before crossing for Bowen to stoop and head past David Raya.

West Ham fans were enjoying themselves and let out a huge cheer when Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice was replaced early in the second half by teenager Lewis-Skelly after an ineffective display against his old club.

Arsenal were huffing and puffing after the break and their task got even harder when Lewis-Skelly dragged down Kudus on the halfway line as the West Ham player was set to break clear with Raya well out of his goal.

A yellow card was initially shown but, after a VAR monitor check, referee Craig Pawson upgraded it to red.

West Ham survived some late pressure against the 10 men as they moved to 30 points from 26 games.

"Everyone wrote us off but we never wrote ourselves off because we know we can win any football game," Bowen said.

Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said his side must "improve a lot," despite winning 2-0 away at Las Palmas on Saturday to return to the top of LaLiga.

Atlético Madrid leapfrogged Barça by beating Valencia earlier in the day, but second-half goals from substitutes Dani Olmo and Ferran Torres took the Catalan side back to the summit.

Real Madrid can move level on 54 points with Barça, one ahead of Atlético, when they host Girona on Sunday as the race for the title heads towards a fascinating climax.

"In the first half, I missed 5-10% from the players, maybe more," Flick said in assessment of his team's performance against Las Palmas.

"It's about positioning, the passing, all these things. It was not like we can do. We have to improve a lot after this match.

"It's also about occupying the box. This was not good. We need players in the box, in the right position.

"It's not always in the midfield where we build up, it's also very important in the box. I am not happy about that and this is where we can do it better.

"The players are also not happy with the performance, but very happy with the three points.

"We are still top of the table and this is a good situation. We always said we want to improve, be better, a better team. I think today we have to improve a lot."

Besides the three points, there were also positives for Flick in the form of substitutes Olmo and Torres supplying the goals which won the match at the Estadio Gran Canaria. Olmo, who is fully fit again after a recent injury, opened the scoring in the 62nd minute with his first goal since November, firing in off the bar after exchanging passes with Lamine Yamal.

Torres' late strike also went in off the bar as the Spain forward, like Olmo, made his case to start more regularly and demonstrated the squad depth available to Flick.

"[Olmo] scored the first goal and it was very important for us," Flick added. "He was injured and maybe others have been one step higher with the fitness [recently], but Dani is very important.

"He needed these minutes to adapt and we are happy he scored the goal -- it was good for him as well.

"But I am also happy with Ferran, he has scored a lot of goals and is on the bench, it's not so easy for him. But they are doing good. They are always an option for the starting XI."

Barça, who are now unbeaten through 13 games in 2025, have a quick turnaround before their next game -- a visit from Atlético on Tuesday in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semifinal between the two teams.

Atlético won 2-1 when they met at the Olympic Stadium in LaLiga just before Christmas.

Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim criticized his players for starting matches slowly after they recovered from a 2-0 halftime deficit at Goodison Park to earn a point against Everton.

Beto and Abdoulaye Doucouré both scored after suspect defending from the visitors before Bruno Fernandes' well-placed free kick and Manuel Ugarte's first goal for the club leveled proceedings.

A late penalty for Everton was controversially overturned by VAR to leave both teams with a point, but United were once again left ruing their slow start as their disappointing Premier League season continues.

Amorim's team have now scored in the first half just once in their past 11 games in the league -- Fernandes' penalty against Brighton -- and failed to register a shot of any description in the opening period on Merseyside.

"The worst part is that we have the free men, and we are losing the ball without pressure and we are not doing what we are supposed to do," Amorim told TNT Sports after the game.

"We did not exist in the first half. ... We suffered two goals from second balls, and that was clear that they will create that chances by second balls, we were soft.

"When you go to the game and you let the time pass -- it's really hard. The second half was so much better in belief, and in the end we were near to winning this game."

Amorim added that he doesn't yet have the solutions to United's problems as they languish in 15th in the table having won just one of their past five Premier League games.

"I don't know. If I knew, I would change it," he said.

"We need to focus on day-by-day; we need to survive this season and then think ahead."

United host Ipswich Town on Wednesday before an FA Cup fifth-round clash with Fulham at Old Trafford on Sunday.

Mikel Arteta accused his Arsenal players of lacking the standards required to win the Premier League after Saturday's 1-0 home defeat to West Ham United.

Jarrod Bowen's 44th-minute diving header was enough to secure a surprise win for the visitors at Emirates Stadium as Arsenal mustered just two shots on target in a subdued display.

The result leaves Arsenal eight points adrift of leaders Liverpool, who can extend that advantage into double figures with victory at Manchester City on Sunday.

Following injuries to Kai Havertz, Gabriel Jesus, Gabriel Martinelli and Bukayo Saka, the Gunners were without a recognized striker against West Ham with midfielder Mikel Merino called in as a makeshift alternative.

Asked whether the absence of a forward was to blame, Arteta said: "No, no and I refuse that completely because I am talking about the standards of the players and the team that we played today, me included.

"And that was nowhere near the levels that we have to hit to have the opportunity to win a Premier League. Today, no. We were very consistent, yes, but football is about what you do today and today, nowhere near."

Arteta could not conceal his frustration after Arsenal missed the chance to apply pressure on their title rivals.

"Even though the [possession] that we had and 20 shots, I never felt that we were at the standard and the level that we needed," he said. "First of all to have more threat and then not to allow them to run because we lost a lot of balls that we allowed West Ham to run in very dangerous positions.

"We have to be [angry]. I hope we are very much because we didn't hit the levels today, and I am very much responsible of that, so I am very, very angry."

Pushed on whether the title race was over if Liverpool beat City, Arteta said: "It's not in our hands. For me, I'm really, really annoyed about the things that are in our hands, and we didn't do as well as we possibly could and that's the performance and the result today."

LONDON -- With eight minutes of normal time left on Saturday, West Ham United replaced match winner Jarrod Bowen with Evan Ferguson, a striker they signed on loan earlier this month.

If you didn't know better, it almost felt like a move to mock Arsenal. After all, how Gunners boss Mikel Arteta must have wished he could do the same, bereft of attacking options after opting against a midseason signing.

That decision appeared questionable at the time, but after losing 1-0 to the Hammers at Emirates Stadium on Saturday, it has already triggered the biggest question of all: is Arsenal's title race now over?

"It's not in our hands," Arteta admitted after the match. "For me, I'm really, really annoyed about the things that are in our hands and we didn't do as well as we possibly could and that's the performance and the result today."

The hope that Mikel Merino would follow a trajectory comparable to that of Kai Havertz -- midfielder turned striker -- seemed fanciful from the outset, even if he filled the vacant centre-forward position impressively with a late double at Leicester City last weekend. Havertz has a much greater pedigree as a forward, and in any case, his transition to leading Arsenal's attack came organically over a period of time when the team was playing well, not as a stop-gap in their hour of need.

Arteta claimed on Friday that Arsenal had been "re-energised" by the way they rallied together following confirmation Havertz would miss the rest of the season with a hamstring injury. There was very little sign of that here and, in fairness to the Spaniard, he did little to mask his frustration at a performance that never matched the task at hand.

"We have to be [angry]," Arteta said. "I hope we are very much because we didn't hit the levels today and I am very much responsible for that so I am very, very angry."

The Gunners had some zip in the play for the opening 15 minutes or so, trying to angle balls to Merino, which, on two occasions, they managed effectively. After West Ham became alive to that threat, though, Arsenal struggled to assert any sustained pressure beyond control of the ball in safe areas.

Despite the sense of opportunity before them -- Liverpool's 2-2 draw at Aston Villa in midweek and Arne Slot's side not playing at Manchester City until Sunday created a chance to cut the gap at the top to five points -- the Gunners were curiously flat.

Perhaps belief was in short supply. Creativity certainly was.

Martin Ødegaard lacked his usual guile, Leandro Trossard made too many wrong decisions and Ethan Nwaneri was subdued. Declan Rice, berated throughout by supporters of his former club, was hooked after just 56 minutes.

Mohammed Kudus caused Arsenal problems all afternoon, none more so than when substitute Myles Lewis-Skelly hauled him down just inside the Gunners half. Referee Craig Pawson initially gave Lewis-Skelly a yellow card but that was correctly upgraded to a red on VAR review due to David Raya's positioning, 40 yards out of his goal.

One second-half moment summed up the Arsenal malaise. On 79 minutes, the home side won a free kick and a chance to put the ball in the box. Ødegaard instead went short and sideways to William Saliba, who then went back to Raya.

The move was met with anger and a smattering of boos in the stands, which steadily emptied as West Ham completed a well-disciplined defensive display with a degree of comfort.

Arsenal mustered just two shots on target all afternoon, one a first-half Riccardo Calafiori effort that Alphonse Areola held comfortably and the second a Trossard shot cutting in from the right. Including added time, Areola did not need to make a save in the final half hour.

Arteta rejected the idea that their lack of a recognised striker could explain everything he witnessed, believing the problem to be more fundamental.

"No, no and I refuse that completely because I am talking about the standards of the players and the team that we played today, me included," he said. "And that was nowhere near the levels that we have to hit to have the opportunity to win a Premier League. Today, no. We were very consistent, yes, but football is about what you do today and today, nowhere near."

There are still some grounds for hope. This was only Arsenal's first league home defeat in 10 months and Liverpool have a tricky week ahead with City away before a trip to Newcastle United, where Arsenal have already lost twice this season.

Increasingly, though, the Gunners don't look in a position to capitalise on any mistakes with Havertz and Gabriel Jesus ruled out for the season, while Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli are both several weeks away from a return.

Arsenal made a judgement call not to pursue a January move for Ollie Watkins more aggressively as their 40 million bid was rejected, falling short of Aston Villa's 60m demand to sanction the England striker's transfer. That decision not to spend the extra 20m -- or close to it with a bit of negotiation -- was based on the possibility of disrupting future plans and an objective valuation of a 29-year-old, albeit one proven in the league.

The evidence is mounting that not signing Watkins, or an alternative, may end up costing them a lot more than that.