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It appears there's a chance Niclas Wallin could be a San Jose Shark after all. On Friday, Hurricanes GM Jim Rutherford told the Raleigh News & Observer the Wallin trade was dead, but two sources close to the situation said the deal was revived late ...

A potential trade involving Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Niclas Wallin has fallen through. "There was a pending deal with a team, and after going through the process of a few days, it didn't materialize," Hurricanes GM Jim Rutherford told ESPN.com...

Three weeks ago, I was in San Jose for a Ducks-Sharks game and remember thinking half the players on the ice might be possible Olympians. I certainly wasn't far off since the Sharks and Ducks are sending a combined 15 players from their NHL rosters,...

Once in a while, there's a game on the NHL docket that makes your spine tingle, and that's exactly what you've got tonight when the San Jose Sharks visit the Chicago Blackhawks. Two Western Conference powerhouse teams with Stanley Cup aspirations me...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Patrick Marleau was quick to correct me. As I stood there in the San Jose Sharks' dressing room asking him about the way he's responded after being stripped of the captaincy last summer, the star forward politely yet clearly made...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- He had the long hair, the big smile, the hunting hat and was chewing tobacco. Yep, that was indeed Mike Ricci at the San Jose Sharks morning skate today. Just like in his playing days, Ricci has an unmistakable look. "The hair's...

Luckily for Dany Heatley, Joe Thornton does most of the puck carrying. In fact, the puck usually touches Heatley's stick for about a millisecond before he launches his one-timers into the back of the net. Not much time for the angry folks in Edmonto...

Will the real Ducks please stand up? Because it's getting late in the season for the floundering Anaheim team to turn things around.

Which teams are showing a keen interest in Peter Forsberg? And is 47-year-old Chris Chelios on the verge of coming back? Pierre LeBrun wraps up Day 1 of the GM meetings.

You can just picture Brendan Morrison humming along to Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days" when he took to the ice Thursday night centering Alex Ovechkin and Mike Knuble. In his first game with the big guy, Morrison netted two assists on Ovechkin's two...

Ah, the smell of pucks. There's nothing like it. We're inching our way toward the Oct. 1 start of the 2009-10 season, and here today at ESPN.com, we're launching the start of our season preview. Check out Scott Burnside's preview of the Atlantic Div...

This past season, Jay Bouwmeester, Marian Gaborik and the Sedin twins dominated the rumor mill all year because of their impending free-agent status. Would they stay or would they go? Every NHL city they went to, that was the question posed to them...

Dany Heatley finally spoke Friday, and not much has changed. He still wants out of Ottawa and is still hopeful for a trade. But the new twist was his not-so-subtle jab at the Senators, who, he believes, leaked out his trade request. "I did not make...

It was 2.5 months ago during the Stanley Cup finals that ESPN The Magazine's E.J. Hradek broke the story that Dany Heatley wanted out of Ottawa. The star winger remains property of the Senators despite the club's best efforts to deal him. "There's s...

It was 2.5 months ago during the Stanley Cup finals that ESPN The Magazine's E.J. Hradek broke the story that Dany Heatley wanted out of Ottawa. The star winger remains property of the Senators despite the club's best efforts to deal him. "Ther...