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Wild Expectations? The Wild have agreed to 13-year contracts with both Ryan Suter and Zach Parise. They become two of six current NHL players with 13-plus-year contracts (Ilya Kovalchuk, Rick DiPietro, Alex Ovechkin and Duncan Keith are the others). ...

The Crosby Show: According to sources, the Penguins and Sidney Crosby are finalizing a long-term deal worth more than $100 million. Over the last two seasons, 617 players have played more games than Crosby's 63. But over that same stretch, only 92 pl...

NEXT LEVEL: The Kings scored the first three goals of the game during a five-minute major power play despite holding the offensive zone for just 44.3 percent of the time. Los Angeles' three goals all came within 30 seconds of entering the zone. Th...

Quiet Celebrations: The Kings can clinch the Stanley Cup in New Jersey tomorrow, which would mark the fifth straight season in which the Cup was clinched on the road. That would be the first time since the NHL took control of the Cup in 1927 that fiv...

The Los Angeles Kings moved to within one game of their first Stanley Cup with a win over the New Jersey Devils. The Devils' 2 goals scored through first three games matches the second-fewest goals through the first three games of Stanley Cup finals ...

Working Overtime: The first two games of the Stanley Cup finals have gone to overtime, and if regulation can't decide a winner tonight, it will become just the second ever Stanley Cup finals to have the first three games go to overtime. In 1951, all ...

Devils Domain? The Devils will try to avoid becoming the 12th team in Stanley Cup finals history to lose the first two games at home in a best-of-seven format. According to Elias, two of the previous 11 teams overcame that deficit to win the series (...

No Stability Needed: The series is far from over, but the Kings are three wins away from becoming just the second team in the history of the four major professional sports to win a championship despite having as many as three different head coaches/m...

Kings keep it low NEXT LEVEL: The Kings directed 20 of their 25 shots on goal low against Devils goalie Martin Brodeur, including both goals in a 2-1 overtime win. Brodeur has allowed 28 goals in the playoffs on low shots, nine more than any other g...

Cup Runneth Over: Martin Brodeur is set to play his 200th playoff game tonight and is attempting to become the ninth player in NHL history (2nd goaltender) to win the Stanley Cup in three different decades. Brodeur won the Cup in 1995, 2000 and 2003....

Goal Deficiency: The Rangers have reached four goals in a game just once this postseason. Since the NHL expansion of 1967-68, no team has advanced to the Stanley Cup finals without reaching the four-goal plateau at least twice. The last time it happe...

Ahead of Their Time: The Kings are one game away from their second trip to the Stanley Cup finals. How dominant have they been? Over the last seven games, they've trailed for only 9:49 out of a possible 420 minutes (2.4 percent) and have trailed by m...

Good To Be King: The Kings are one of six teams in NHL history to win at least eight straight road playoff games (New York Islanders 1982-83, Toronto 1948-50, Montreal 1977-78, New Jersey 1995-97, Edmonton 1986-87). History says the Stanley Cup is co...

* Home teams are 86-57 all-time in Game 7s * Capitals: all 7 playoff wins (and 5 of 6 losses) have been by one goal; FROM ELIAS: with another one-goal game, they would be 2nd team in last 5 years to play 13 such games in one postseason (NHL record i...

Braden "Halt"by? The Rangers might lead the Capitals in the series, but don't expect it to end tonight. Caps goalie Braden Holtby has won each of his last 10 decisions in games following a loss (regular season and postseason combined). That includes ...

Making His Point: Martin Brodeur has contributed in more ways than one to the Devils playoff success. He currently has three points this postseason (all assists), which ties the NHL record for most points by a goaltender in a playoff year. It's been ...