The Boston Bruins defeated the Carolina Hurricanes 4-0 to win Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals for a series sweep thanks to smoking-hot goalie Tuukka Rask. The Bruins return to the Finals for the first time since 2013. They await the outcome of the Western Conference Finals. The San […]

No one really expected the St. Louis Blues and the San Jose Sharks would be fighting each other to represent the Western Conference in this NHL playoffs preview, but the two unexpected squads both find themselves only four wins away from the Stanley Cup Finals and eight wins away from […]

The San Jose Sharks defeated the Colorado Avs 3-2 in Game 7 of the Western Conference Semifinals to advance to the Western Finals thanks to goals by Joe Pavelski and Tomas Hertl. Joe Pavelski, the Sharks captain who missed the first six games of the Avalanche series, rallied back from […]

Pat Maroon scored a goal less than six minutes into the second overtime frame to lead the St. Louis Blues to a 2-1 victory over the Dallas Stars in Game 7 of the Western Conference Semifinals. The Blues advance to the Western Finals and will play the winner of the […]

The Colorado Avalanche defeated the San Jose Sharks in overtime 4-3 to win Game 6 of the Western Conference Semifinals. The Avs forced a Game 7. Gabriel Landeskog, a left winger from Sweden scored the game-winner in overtime for the Avs. Landeskog scored 75 points this season including 34 goals, […]

It took double overtime for Justin “Mr. Game 7” Williams and the Carolina Hurricanes to knock out the defending champions, the Washington Capitals, 4-3 in Game 7 of the opening round of the Stanley Cup Finals. The Capitals won the Cup last year, but they lost their beloved head coach. […]

The Toronto Maple Leafs are the only team from Canada remaining in the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, but they are on the verge of elimination by facing the Boston Bruins in Game 7 of their opening-round series. The Leafs were up 3-2 in the series heading into Game 6. The […]

The New York Islanders, playing old-school defensive hockey implemented by coach Barry Trotz, completed a four-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round of the NHL playoffs. The Islanders kept the Penguins top scorers in check for the entire series. The Islanders had one of the best defensive […]

The Columbus Blue Jackets completed a sweep after defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning 7-3 in Game 4 of the opening-round of the NHL Eastern Conference playoffs. All season long while marching their way toward a 62-win season, the Lightning were favorites to win the Stanley Cup. Heading into the postseason, […]

The NHL playoffs are less than a week old and the best team in the regular season, the 62-win Tampa Bay Lightning, are down 3-0 against Sergei Bobrovsky and the Columbus Blue Jackets. Meanwhile, Barry Trotz and the NY Islanders are one win away from sweeping the Pittsburgh Penguins. The […]

The Stanley Cup Playoffs begin on Wednesday and the team that was supposed to challenge for the Stanley Cup, the Tampa Bay Lightning, are once again favorites to win it all. The Lightning finished with the most points in the regular season, and are the 5/2 favorite, according to William […]

The NHL season has one week remaining and three teams in the Eastern Conference are fighting for the final two spots with the Columbus Blue Jackets, Carolina Hurricanes, and Maxi Domi ‘s Montreal Canadiens still in the playoff hunt. If the playoffs were to begin today, Max Domi and the […]

It was almost a tale of two conferences for the NHL trading deadline on Monday. The Western Conference teams made some bold moves in trying to get better before the playoffs, while most of the Eastern Conference teams were happy staying with what they have. It will be interesting to […]

The Anaheim Ducks, the worst team in the Western Conference, relieved Randy Carlyle of head coaching duties and installed general manager Bob Murray as an interim head coach. Murray has been the GM of the Ducks since 2006, but has zero head coaching experience. Randy Carlyle, 62, has the most […]

In a special ceremony, the New York Rangers commemorated the 25th anniversary of their Stanley Cup team, captained by Hall of Fame center Mark Messier. The 1993-94 Rangers ended a 54-year drought by winning the Stanley Cup for the first time before World War II. Prior to a home game […]

The NHL has seen some surprises in the first half of the season, but what awaits for the second half? Calgary and the New York Islanders have outperformed expectations. The Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins have underperformed. Will that trend continue? There has already been on coaching change, and others […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning (37-10-2) are the top team in the NHL with 76 points and are the favorite to win the Stanley Cup at 4-to-1 odds, according to the South Point Casino and Sports Book in Las Vegas. With the NHL All-Star Game in the books, the second half […]

The Vegas Golden Knights weren’t expected to make much noise in their first NHL season. But by the time 2018 rolled around, it was clear that Las Vegas’ first major league professional sports team was defying expectations in a big way, taking the city on a magical run that ended […]

The Detroit Red Wings are no stranger to hockey fights this season and they’ve already gotten into major scraps this month with the Colorado Avalanche and the Boston Bruins. The Red Wings won their first game in Boston in five years inspired by a mini-brawl that almost incited a fight […]