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Pavel Datsyuk and the Detroit Red Wings have an agreement on a three-year contract.

Corey Pronman redrafted the 2008 NHL draft. He believes the Tampa Bay Lightning would again select center Steven Stamkos with the No. 1 overall selection, but star D-man Erik Karlsson now clearly belongs among the top three.

Story | Conversation | June 18, 2013

BOSTON -- The Chicago Blackhawks have excelled in Game 1 in all four rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs. They've taken care of business in Game 5 in the first, second and third rounds. Where the Blackhawks have run into a roadblock throughout t...

CHICAGO -- Chicago Blackhawks rookie forward Brandon Saad had it pretty easy in the regular season. Part of that was Saad's own doing by proving he belonged in the NHL. But from the time Saad was thrown on the top line alongside Jonathan Toews and...

Drew Miller really didn't want to leave the Detroit Red Wings to find out what he was worth on the market.

Sam Paolini breaks down the best ways to bet the 2013 Stanley Cup finals between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Boston Bruins.

Story | Conversation | June 11, 2013

BOSTON -- Bruins rookie defenseman Torey Krug grew up in Michigan as a Detroit Red Wings fan, so he's not too keen on the Chicago Blackhawks. The 22-year-old blueliner already has experienced a Cinderella-like Stanley Cup playoffs, his first...

CHICAGO -- The Chicago Blackhawks felt they hadn't experienced any true adversity in their season prior to the playoffs. A lot has changed since then. Three playoff series later, the Blackhawks feel like a battle-tested group that can now face...

CHICAGO -- No team is more up to date on what it's like to be down 3-1 in a series and still cling to the hope of rallying back than the Chicago Blackhawks. The Blackhawks went through that a round ago and fought back from a 3-1 deficit to knock o...

The Bruins-Penguins series is unfolding much like the 1997 Stanley Cup finals, in which an underrated Detroit team swept Philadelphia, writes Scott Burnside.

LOS ANGELES -- One of Brandon Saad's favorite days of the season was driving back to Rockford and gathering all of his possessions. That was the day he knew he had made it. The 20-year-old Saad hadn't been sure whether he was a temporary call-u...

New NHL players might soon be forced to wear visors, and the rest might join that group in the not too distant future.

LOS ANGELES -- Chicago Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman made just one move at the trade deadline, acquiring forward Michal Handzus from the San Jose Sharks. It was the only additional piece Bowman thought the Blackhawks needed to make anothe...

CHICAGO -- Oh baby, these guys are rolling. Was it really just more than a week ago that the Chicago Blackhawks found themselves on the brink of elimination, down 3-1 in a series with the Detroit Red Wings? Five wins a row later, and now the on...

Game 2 showed the Blackhawks' full array of firepower, and its coming together at the right time, Pierre LeBrun writes.

CHICAGO -- Adversity sometimes provides the greatest lessons, and Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews thought his team was given one about the potential difference between a Game 1 and Game 2 during their second-round series with the Detroit Re...