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The Blackhawks' Corey Crawford and Ray Emery have each overcome their own adversity to help backstop the best team in the NHL, writes Scott Burnside.

Tuesday: Flyers at Lightning, 7:30 p.m. ETThe third game in a mighty 12-game homestand for the Lightning, and they host the league's best team (at least for our money). Tampa Bay could pull within two points of Philly for the top spot the Eastern Con...

Yes, the Devils are within a point or two. So are the Sharks. There's also the Caps and Pens. But by any comparison, no team can match the Chicago Blackhawks. They visit Boston in our Game of the Week.

Selecting the best U.S. team for the 2006 Olympics will not be an easy task for GM Don Waddell.

There's always a lot of hocus-pocus when a team is down 3-0 in a best-of-seven series, and while Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma acknowledged "it's not a very encouraging picture," it was still interesting to hear Bylsma liken the situation...

BOSTON -- There is nowhere quite like the dressing room of a team that has gone down 3-0 in a best-of-seven playoff series. There is especially nothing like the dressing room of a team that has lost an epic double-overtime battle like the one the ...

CHICAGO -- If it's possible to have a perfect press box storm, this might have been it. Not that a clash between two of the best teams in the Western Conference, both of whom have definite Stanley Cup plans, wouldn't provide enough drama on its ow...

The trip comes to a close with the Blues running the table, beating Detroit, Calgary and, on Sunday night in an emotional tilt against one of the best teams in the NHL, squeaking by the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 in a shootout, writes Scott Burnside.

Undrafted, unwanted early in his career, St. Louis has a fierceness about him, even as he barrels toward his 36th birthday, that leaves his teammates in awe and his team one win from an improbable trip to the 2011 Stanley Cup finals.

TAMPA, Fla. -- There are few less inviting places than the locker room of a team down 3-0 in a best-of-seven playoff series. There are brave faces and fearless talk, but everywhere is the feel of despair. It was so Wednesday morning in the Wash...

Call it heart or character or whatever you want, but the Capitals don't seem to have it. And until they find it, it's hard to imagine there won't be more disappointments like Wednesday night's.

Yes, Thursday's game between the Hawks and Sharks is important when it comes to the overall West standings. But both teams are trying to keep the bigger picture in mind heading into our Game of the Week.

The debate over the game's greatest player might rage on, but Alex Ovechkin solved another debate Monday night. The Caps are now the best young hockey team in the game.

There is the playoff abyss, and then there is the playoff oasis of the next round. The Flyers and Penguins are both trying not to get caught up in their respective situations.

The NHL will continue to send teams to Europe to kick off its regular season, and the world's best players will meet in the 2011 World Cup of Hockey now that the league and players' association have reached a compromise, ESPN.com has learned.

The Thrashers signed defenseman Ron Hainsey on Wednesday.