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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Matt Greene wouldn't be the hockey card 9-year-old kids in Southern California would ever fight over. Kopitar, Brown, Richards, Quick, Doughty, Carter ... those are the faces of this Los Angeles Kings team, they're the big bo...

What had become almost a doormat (dormant?) NHL franchise now has life again. First, Joe Sakic agreed last month to become more of a factor in the day-to-day running of the Colorado Avalanche, becoming executive vice president of hockey operations...

Seven years after cracking the lineup, San Jose Sharks defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic is making his veteran presence felt.

ST. LOUIS -- Hockey players are creatures of habit, they're routine robots. Game 2 of the Kings-Blues series is slated for 8:30 p.m. local time (9:30 p.m. ET) Thursday, which frankly is nothing short of silly, and definitely quite different for th...

ST. LOUIS -- Rarely does a series hinge so much on the opening game, but the psyche of the St. Louis Blues might have been crushed had the Los Angeles Kings scored in overtime Tuesday night. And that's not hyperbole. To dominate like the Blues did...

ST. LOUIS -- For Robyn Regehr, it's felt like eternity. For Jay Bouwmeester, well, it almost has been. On Tuesday night, the former Calgary Flames teammates will skate on opposite sides and cherish the chance at playoff hockey when the St. Loui...

The lockout-shortened regular season has come and gone, and 16 teams are moving on. Pierre LeBrun takes a look at the survivors and identifies five candidates for the Conn Smythe Trophy.

In about a week, I will fill out my official NHL awards ballot as a member of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association. The PHWA votes on the Hart Trophy as well as the Norris, Calder and Selke. The NHL's 30 general managers vote on the Vezina...

With a dazzling display in his hometown Thursday, Islanders alternate captain John Tavares made a statement for himself and his team.

The Maple Leafs and Canadiens last met in the playoffs in 1979. If the two teams meet this year, writes Pierre LeBrun, it would be hockey fandemonium.

In the end, they circled back, as the whole hockey world knew they would. The standoff that began months ago came down to one last hour of dramatic back and forth. The Vancouver Canucks lowered their demands in a Roberto Luongo deal in the final 6...

It was the first week of February, and the Minnesota Wild had lost three straight games to fall to 4-5-1. It wasn't what the passionate fans in the State of Hockey were expecting after a hype-filled offseason last summer fueled by the high-priced ...

TORONTO -- USA Hockey huddled up its NHL GM advisory group here Tuesday night with a focus on the upcoming IIHF men's world championship, but it was also a chance to update player evaluations for next February's Olympic team. Brian Burke, Don Wadd...

With the Olympics less than a year away, IOC inspectors are visiting Sochi again to check on preparations for the 2014 Winter Games.

The NHL and NHL Players' Association have agreed to change this season's escrow rate to 20 percent, sources confirmed to ESPN.com.

Well, we had warned hockey fans that a short, compacted season would be full of surprises, and to expect the unexpected. But if we told you before the puck dropped this season that a midseason matchup between the Vancouver Canucks and Columbus Blu...