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The road to Brendan Shanahan's door should be renamed The Path of Least Resistance. Whatever is guaranteed to create the least amount of fuss, whatever allows the latest ugly on-ice mess to dissipate into the ether as quickly as possible, that's w...

We're not privy to the NHL's marketing slogan for the 2013-14 season, but it might be something like "Go Big or Go Home, but Definitely Go Outdoors." Of course, if you read much of the negative commentary surrounding the NHL's decision to multiply...

Our guess is that a lot of folks will tag this series as an upset special. Part of that will be the fact the Red Wings rolled into their 22nd straight playoff tournament by winning four straight under trying circumstances after flirting with disastro...

The NHL is in the final planning stages of its much-anticipated series of outdoor stadium games next season that would see six outdoor contests set to take place in football and baseball stadium across North America, sources told ESPN.com Tuesday.

And so we have a race. In spite of an NHL-record 24-game points streak to start the NHL season, the Chicago Blackhawks still have the Anaheim Ducks fully in their rearview mirror after the Ducks' dramatic 4-2 in Anaheim Wednesday night. Although t...

It has become a bit of a throwaway line: The Chicago Blackhawks, runaway leaders in the Western Conference. Um, leaders? Yes. Runaway? Well, the Anaheim Ducks might have something to say about the relative merits of the term "runaway." The Bla...

We all like to point to statement games without acknowledging that those games and their importance last exactly the amount of time it takes to play the game. So you can rest assured that, although disappointed at being beaten 5-2 at Staples Center o...

• There's no forgetting Nicklas Lidstrom. That goes without saying. But here's to Niklas Kronwall for at least helping Wings' fans with the separation anxiety that comes with losing the greatest defenseman of his generation to retirement. ...

If there is one thing that separates the good teams from the mediocre and the great ones from the good, it's consistency of effort. Poor teams invariably see wild swings in effort and results, sometimes within a few days. Monday was ...

• On a rare light night in the league, Swedish goaltending sensation Viktor Fasth earned his first NHL shutout, stopping all 31 Colorado shots en route to a 3-0 victory. The win moved the surprising Ducks to 7-1-1 as Fasth has quickly surp...

• Anyone who isn't taking the Anaheim Ducks seriously might want to start after the Ducks handed the red-hot San Jose Sharks their first regulation loss of the season, clipping them by a 2-1 count Monday night. Perhaps more interesting is ...

• The Pittsburgh Penguins are starting to round into the kind of groove many anticipated at the start of the season. After spanking New Jersey Saturday by a 5-1 count for their first home win of the season, they traveled to Washington and ...

• The beat goes on for the San Jose Sharks as they beat Anaheim 3-2 in a shootout to start 6-0-0. Logan Couture tied the game at 2-2 with less than three minutes to go in regulation and then Michal Handzus won it during the shootout. Antti...

When I catch up with unlikely scoring sensation Daniel Winnik by phone, he is buying towels and sheets for his new beachfront apartment. No word on whether he's searching for a motif that shows a man with his arms raised in celebration over his head....

It's about 5:30 a.m. ET Sunday, and Anaheim Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau has been up for a couple of hours already. "I couldn't sleep," Boudreau told ESPN.com as he headed toward the team's first day of training camp now that the new collective barg...

2013 NHL preview: Scott Burnside takes a look at the Anaheim Ducks.