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If the Western Conference remains a place of high anxiety for teams such as the Minnesota Wild, Detroit Red Wings and Columbus Blue Jackets, who are wrestling for the final two playoff berths in the final days of the regular season, there is at last ...

Winnipeg Jets defenseman Dustin Byfuglien not only agreed to take a Breathalyzer test when police boarded his boat on Aug. 31 but passed the test.

The NHL may have forsaken the Atlanta market, but the battle for the city's few hockey hearts and minds continues. The Carolina Hurricanes and Nashville Predators are both in discussions with the league and Fox Sports about the possibility of send...

Matthew Hulsizer, the most promising potential buyer of the beleaguered Phoenix Coyotes to come along since the team was thrown into bankruptcy two years ago, has walked away from the process, a source told ESPN.com on Monday afternoon.

Scott Mayfield enjoyed a dramatic ascension that has seen him go from playing junior varsity hockey in suburban St. Louis three years ago to a full-ride scholarship at the University of Denver and a place on the big stage at the 2011 entry draft with a brand new NHL jersey to call his own.

Mark Scheifele's selection by the Winnipeg Jets with the seventh overall pick represents a new future, a new beginning for a franchise that has known little but disappointment and disinterest in a decade in Atlanta.

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- It's not surprising that former Atlanta Thrashers general manager Rick Dudley was without work for only a matter of days after the Winnipeg ownership group decided not to bring him to Canada with the team. What is interesting is...

The "For Sale" sign isn't up in front of Ron Hainsey's Atlanta home, but it will be soon. The Atlanta Thrashers defenseman watched, as presumably most of his teammates did on Tuesday, as the NHL confirmed the long-anticipated sale of the Thrashers...

It is only just that the Atlanta Spirit Group will pay dearly, because the failure of the Thrashers in Atlanta is its mess and its alone.

Boston netminding coach Bob Essensa spent parts of six seasons playing in Winnipeg, and he, like many, is enthusiastic that the NHL appears on the verge of returning to the prairie city. "As a Canadian, you felt a loss when you see teams move from...

If anyone thinks the city of Glendale's decision to pour $25 million more down the sinkhole that is the Phoenix Coyotes represents anything approaching stability in the desert, he or she hasn't been following along. Yes, the municipal masters of m...

Monday: Kings at Sharks, 10 p.m. ETThe Kings, who have won five of their past six games, can secure a playoff berth with a win at the Shark Tank and take another step toward home-ice advantage in the first round. Meanwhile, the Sharks, who have won t...

Monday: Washington Capitals at Tampa Bay Lightning, 7 p.m. ETAfter a long ride atop the Southeast Division standings, the Lightning have been overtaken by defending division champs Washington. The Lightning have lost three in a row and have managed j...

ATLANTA -- Thrashers GM Rick Dudley was a minor league coach in the Los Angeles Kings' organization when the Kings acquired Wayne Gretzky in the summer of 1988, so he knows whereof he speaks when he says anyone can be traded. Fair enough. But l...

Will these Atlanta Thrashers become part of the franchise's forgettable past, or can they somehow chart a new course and defy it?

Stock upMax Pacioretty, Montreal Canadiens: My colleague Pierre LeBrun talked with Habs captain Brian Gionta this week about the team's bounce-back efforts after a soft January. One of the players making a big impact is call-up Max Pacioretty, who ha...