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With free agency looming, Zach Parise has stepped up his leadership and his play to lead the New Jersey Devils to the Eastern Conference finals. Craig Custance examines his options and the impact of the playoffs.

Blog | Conversation | May 10, 2012

The Nashville Predators will be without Alexander Radulov and Andrei Kostitsyn for Game 3 on Wednesday. The club decided to sit them out for violating team rules.

Heading into the playoffs, Craig Custance gets the lowdown on the Nashville Predators from rival players, coaches and scouts.

Story | Conversation | April 04, 2012

The Nashville Predators likely overpaid a tad, but you have to admire the message they're sending with Friday's rental acquisition of Hal Gill: They're loading up for a Stanley Cup run. "Definitely," veteran Predators GM David Poile said Friday on...

NASHVILLE -- Interesting story in Nashville's The City Paper by David Boclair asks whether erstwhile Nashville Predators sniper Alexander Radulov might be the missing piece to the Preds' Stanley Cup puzzle. The enigmatic Russian was a first-round...

Two Ducks and one Kings player were chosen to the NHL All-Star Game.

The Devils only have one All-Star, while the Rangers send two and the Islanders have only one in the skills competition.

The NHL announced Tuesday the remaining 36 players and 12 rookies chosen by the league's hockey operations department to take part in this month's All-Star festivities that include the traditional game and skills competitions

The Nashville Predators have made the playoffs five times in the last six years, including a 100-point season last year -- but never escaped the first round. E.J. Hradek likes a young D-man, but Puck Prospectus has worries about a center.

Story | Conversation | September 10, 2010

One of the most important pieces to any Stanley Cup champion team is goaltending. Who makes the grade this postseason? David Amber ranks the 16 playoff netminders.

With the Peter Forsberg deal, the Preds' David Poile may have become the gutsiest GM in hockey, writes Scott Burnside.