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As is seemingly the case every season, the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs had something for everyone, Scott Burnside writes

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- In a playoff year that has been dominated by goaltending drama, Chicago Blackhawks netminder Corey Crawford is the King of Calm. On Tuesday night alone the Montreal Canadiens lost starting goaltender Carey Price to injury and th...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- In the middle of a hotly contested playoff series and with a crucial game in the offing, individual awards may seem relatively inconsequential. But when it was revealed Tuesday morning that Ryan Suter was a finalist for the Norr...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- That Josh Harding chooses not to let the fact he has multiple sclerosis become a talking point in this playoff season is his prerogative. This is the time for discussion to be about pucks and saves and swings in momentum, not medic...

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...

ST. PAUL, Minn -- Rookie Jason Zucker, the overtime hero of the Minnesota Wild's crucial 3-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday, admitted he wasn't aiming for a spot but just hoping to get the puck on net. He did more than that, of cour...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- On a day when life was breathed back into the State of Hockey, it turned out to be the kid from Newport Beach, Calif., who did the resuscitating. Go figure. In what now ranks as one of the most important victories in franchis...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- It's still unknown whether Minnesota Wild netminder Niklas Backstrom has recovered sufficiently from an injury suffered in warm-up before Game 1 of their series against the Chicago Blackhawks to play Sunday in Game 3. Further, i...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- At the same time Minnesota Wild players were stepping onto the ice for practice, workers outside the Xcel Energy Center were putting up a giant sign: Fight To The End. So far in this Western Conference quarterfinals series betwe...

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...

In spite of the Chicago Blackhawks' status as runaway winners of the Western Conference and their place as Presidents' Trophy winners as top team in the NHL, the Western Conference is fraught with potential trap doors. The lone exception to the trap-...

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.

The day after the trade deadline is often like the day after a big family wedding. Lots of stuff to sift through. Maybe you'll find an unexpected and unopened gift, or maybe you'll be reminded that the gift you thought stunk the day before still stin...

Here's a look at five teams for whom the trade deadline looms large, writes Scott Burnside.

CHICAGO -- It's not so much that the Calgary Flames look like a team that has quit. More that they look like a team that's paralyzed by the prospect of stuff that might happen. Or might not happen. But definitely paralyzed. With speculation ra...

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...