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Craig Custance breaks down the tactics and tendencies of every 2013 Stanley Cup Playoff team with the help of rival players, coaches and scouts.

Hockey Prospectus and ESPN Insider Craig Custance go team-by-team through the NHL to see which players are on the rise, which are regressing and which are set to emerge in the coming season.

In ESPN The Magazine, Lindsay Berra writes about four dynamic duos who are reviving the Eastern Conference.

Hockey Prospectus goes team-by-team through the NHL, examining roster holes and finding the best ways to fix them.

NHL draft 2011: Ryan Nugent-Hopkins tops Gare Joyce's final mock draft - ESPN via kwoutIn his final mock draft (4.0), ESPN Insider Gare Joyce has the Bruins taking 18-year-old defenseman Ryan Murphy with the No. 9 overall pick in tomorrow night's NHL...

Want access to pre-season power rankings? Key stats? Inside perspectives on the season ahead from NHL players? Insider has it all right here.

Puck Prospectus and EJ Hradek go team-by-team through the NHL, examining roster holes and finding the best ways to fix them.

Puck Prospectus and E.J. Hradek go team by team through the NHL, examining roster holes and finding the best way to fix them.

TORONTO -- Paul Martin withdrawing from the 2010 Olympics was a huge loss for Team USA, and the fear now is the Americans could lose another top blueliner in Mike Komisarek. The Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman skated hard in practice Tuesday, and was...

TORONTO -- The NHL's trade market isn't heavy on quality, puck-moving defensemen, and it will be a lot lighter if Tomas Kaberle is not available. Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke repeated once again Sunday that he would not ask the 31-year-old Cze...

Editor's note: There's the March 3 trade deadline, and then there's the Olympic roster freeze that goes into effect on Feb. 12. Between now and Feb. 12, ESPN.com's Scott Burnside and Pierre LeBrun will look at 10 potential trade baits and which teams...

TORONTO -- People in these parts still remember where they were that day, 18 Januarys ago, when the Toronto Maple Leafs acquired Doug Gilmour from the Calgary Flames. It was a franchise-altering blockbuster by former GM Cliff Fletcher that will go d...

I explained to Bryan Murray that it was time for ESPN.com to give his Ottawa Senators some love, and the veteran GM, perhaps with a hint of sarcasm, welcomed the phone call Monday. "We don't get much, so that'd be good," Murray said. No, the Sens d...

There was a fresh new wave of Vincent Lecavalier trade rumors last week, with the New York Rangers again linked to the star center. But the owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning wants everyone to know there's absolutely nothing to them. "We have never ta...

I have the strangest memory of Michael Peca. It was the 2001 world championships in Hannover, Germany, and Peca was sitting on a hotel bed looking as though the world had crashed down on him. It was pretty close to that. Nearing the end of a yearlon...

TORONTO -- As far as impromptu news conferences go, Brian Burke certainly didn't disappoint. The embattled GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs cleared the air on a number of matters Thursday as the pressure intensifies in the NHL's biggest hockey market w...