ESPN Search

As we digested the latest pre-trade deadline deal -- Toronto traded Kris Versteeg to Philadelphia for two 2011 draft picks -- we couldn't help but think how the Stanley Cup playoffs make for lasting impressions. If you assess Versteeg in a vacuum,...

On Wednesday, Brian Burke stepped down as GM for the Anaheim Ducks. Does this automatically mean he's headed for Toronto? Maybe it shouldn't. A lot of teams could use a GM like Burke.

CHICAGO -- For much of the early part of Game 2 of these achingly close Stanley Cup finals, it appeared as though the Boston Bruins had spoken the right words but were going to be unable to summon the will to move on from an emotional triple-overtime...

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

BOSTON -- From Dan Bylsma on down through starting netminder Tomas Vokoun to Jarome Iginla, Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, Wednesday night looms as a seminal moment for the Pittsburgh Penguins. It might seem a bit hyperbolic to suggest that for ...

Matt Cooke's hit on Adam McQuaid earned him a five-minute major and a game misconduct, but the hit wasn't much different from the one Brad Marchand put on James Neal, writes Scott Burnside

For years the face of the Calgary Flames, veteran forward Jarome Iginla finds that he fits well in Pittsburgh, too, writes Scott Burnside

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...

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.

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...

--Let's start with the reunion of Ryan Suter and his former teammates from Nashville in Minnesota. This won't have the emotional charge of Suter's much-anticipated return to downtown Nashville on March 9, but you know that Suter's old mates were look...

NEW YORK -- Another day of multiple meetings, conference calls and reporters huddled against the cold on Manhattan sidewalks marked another tentative step toward an end to the NHL lockout. But while both sides continue to play coy about how much f...

We keep saying the two sides are close. Many players, agents, governors, coaches, lawyers and pretty much everyone outside the key figures on both sides of the NHL lockout apparently believe it to be so. But is it true? Is a deal within our gra...

For Pascal Dupuis, the lockout is as much about the near future as the distant future, Scott Burnside writes.

Whether it's the Theatre of the Absurd, Thelma and Louise, or two squirrels, this whole labor dispute is driving us nuts, Scott Burnside writes.