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It is across the ocean and not the NHL, but coaching Team Canada at the IIHF men's world championship is a prideful honor that puts Lindy Ruff back behind a players' bench, where he belongs. "I can't wait, really," Ruff told ESPN.com on Wednesday ...

A week before the trade deadline, I chatted with Nashville Predators GM David Poile and asked him about his approach this year. He wasn't sure yet. He said to check back after his team's game April 2, on the eve of the deadline. He was only hal...

Interesting news Monday evening with a source confirming to ESPN.com that the Calgary Flames have given permission to the Toronto Maple Leafs to speak to Miikka Kiprusoff's camp about a contract extension. My TSN colleague Aaron Ward was first to ...

The NHL is proposing a new realignment plan which would feature playoff wild-card spots plus see the league go from six divisions to four.

Despite a coaching change that hit players like a sledgehammer -- Lindy Ruff sent packing after 16 years -- it was yet another loss for the Buffalo Sabres, one which prompted a players-only meeting, writes Pierre LeBrun.

TORONTO -- On his way out of the Air Canada Centre after a morning skate that was missing a familiar face, Ryan Miller reflected on Day 1 without his longtime coach Lindy Ruff. "Lindy did a lot for me in my career," the Buffalo Sabres star netmind...

Lindy Ruff was fired Wednesday after almost 16 years behind the Buffalo Sabres' bench, but he likely had a clue this was coming. At least that's how fellow coach Ken Hitchcock felt when it happened to him. The St. Louis Blues coach calls it the pi...

My remote needed new batteries after flicking around a dozen games last night. Here's what I retained: • In Glendale, Ariz., the hockey code was in full force. Coyotes winger Raffi Torres had to answer the bell for his vicious hit on ...

Darcy Regier has dialed up his GM counterparts this week with his Buffalo Sabres squad collecting only three wins in 10 games to begin the season. But there are no magic pills lying out there right now in what appears to be a soft trade market. ...

TORONTO -- The Buffalo Sabres needed just one game of this new, shortened season to send a message to the rest of the league. They intend on not getting pushed around anymore. And the guy sending the message wasn't who you'd expect. Which is ex...

NEW YORK -- Never again. OK, that's a little naive. But let's not see a labor dispute like this in this sport for at least a couple of decades. The NHL needs labor peace for a long, long time, not just the 8-10 years this freshly minted tentati...

2013 NHL preview: Pierre LeBrun takes a look at the Buffalo Sabres.

As another day goes by without bargaining talks, Thursday being the league's deadline for a new collective bargaining agreement to save a full season, you wonder what former members of the NHL family are thinking as they watch it all unfold...

For as much as Brian Burke has long maintained that the trade deadline is overrated in terms of a time of year to improve your team, draft week has been an altogether different beast for the veteran GM. No need to look further than the way Burke m...

It was captain on captain. It was hockey's oldest and truest form of will, a one-on-one puck battle. Who wanted it most? Turns out it was Buffalo Sabres winger Jason Pominville, who stole the bouncing disk from Alex Ovechkin at the Washington poin...

The Buffalo Sabres have been on a tear, going 11-2-3 since Feb. 19 and narrowing what was once a 10-point deficit behind the eighth and final playoff spot to just one point entering Friday night's tough matchup at Madison Square Garden against the Ea...