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It's easy to forget that last summer featured some major player transactions in the NHL. Between free agency and an unusually active trade market, plenty of players found new homes. Some of those moves have worked out well. Others ... not so much....

Welcome to a weekly blog post of thoughts and observations from the past few days and/or decades of NHL hockey. The Three Stars of Comedy Recognizing the three moments or personalities from around the league that produced the most comedic fodder fo...

Picking through the signal and the noise one-fifth of the way through the (abbreviated) NHL season.

San Jose's stunning start and the rest of the week in the NHL .

Here's a general rule about hockey fans: They hate just about everyone. If you're an NHL player, it doesn't take much for hockey fans to turn against you. Sidney Crosby? Too whiny. The Sedins? The whole twin thing is creepy. Alexander Ovechkin? On...

All that and more in the triumphant return of the Bake Shop mailbag.

1. Claude Giroux: All Claude Everything I am obligated by William Penn blood oath to award any Philly athlete the top spot in Rankonia, but Sarah Larimer really makes a compelling case for the Flyers forward: "Katie Baker is right. It is pretty much...

Other than the Panthers and Devils, who will meet tonight, all of the teams in this year's NHL playoffs have played a game of their first-round postseason matchups. And just about all of them, probably much to the delight of the NHL and NBC, have bee...

And the rest of your critical sports questions answered in this week's Bake Shop.

In HBO's 24/7 series on the Rangers-Flyers Winter Classic, there was one interaction between a player and an official that made it pretty clear how certain things go down. After the Flyers' Max Talbot gets whistled for not having done much in particu...

As Craig Custance and I discussed on our podcast Tuesday, The NHL Winter Classic feels like nothing so much as a wedding. There's almost a full year of build-up and planning, of finding vendors and making the most minute of arrangements. Check in at ...

Really, what else is there to say? So much already was said (guilty!) in the 24 hours leading up to the return of the NHL's best player, Sidney Crosby. And yet even the silliest aspirations about how no. 87 would look Monday in his first game in 10 m...