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Turns out, Bill McCreary isn't being put out to pasture just yet.As I wrote about earlier this season, http://espn.go.com/nhl/blog?name=lebrun_pierre&id=4722713, this was originally supposed to be the referee's 28th and final NHL season...

Turns out, Bill McCreary isn't being put out to pasture just yet.As I wrote about earlier this season, http://espn.go.com/nhl/blog?name=lebrun_pierre&id=4722713, this was originally supposed to be the referee's 28th and final NHL season...

Turns out, Bill McCreary isn't being put out to pasture just yet. As I wrote about earlier this season, http://espn.go.com/nhl/blog?name=lebrun_pierre&id=4722713, this was originally supposed to be the referee's 28th and final NHL season wearing the...

An update on the coaching search for the Montreal Canadiens before I head back out on the road Monday for the Stanley Cup finals. The sense I get is that the Habs aren't terribly far from making their decision, my guess is sometime within the next...

After breezing through the Western Conference in only 14 games, are the Kings the favorites to skate off with Lord Stanley's Cup? ESPN.com national hockey writer Pierre LeBrun joins Inside the NHL to discuss....

Wayne Gretzky kept a low profile for obvious reasons during the Western Conference finals, but you can expect to see him at Staples Center for the Stanley Cup finals. "For sure, I'll be at Game 3," The Great One told ESPN.com Wednesday. Gretzky...

LOS ANGELES -- There's no doubt the NHL is a copycat league, but just because the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup without a power play a year ago doesn't mean that's necessarily the way to go. "No, definitely not," Kings winger Jeff Carter said ...

LOS ANGELES -- The silver lining of losing Game 4 at home when you have a chance to wrap up a berth in the Stanley Cup finals? The Los Angeles Kings carry their perfect 7-0 road record into Tuesday night's game at Phoenix. "You've got to win four...

Jordan Nolan is just soaking it all in. The Los Angeles Kings rookie winger was in Manchester of the AHL more than three months ago. Now he's one win from the Stanley Cup finals. "Just enjoying everything, really, it's pretty surreal," Nolan s...

LOS ANGELES -- The "Goalie Whisperer," aka Sean Burke, aka the hottest commodity in goalie coaching circles in the NHL these days, just happens to be a UFA this summer. Indeed, Burke's contract with the Phoenix Coyotes as goalie coach and director...

LOS ANGELES -- Even without top center Martin Hanzal, the Phoenix Coyotes played a strong road game in a 2-1 defeat Thursday night. But that wasn't the topic Phoenix coach Dave Tippett wanted to focus on afterward. Tippett, perhaps fueled by th...

Raffi Torres had his appeal hearing with commissioner Gary Bettman on Thursday. A league source said it's not clear exactly when Bettman will render his decision, saying the commissioner would take whatever time is necessary to appropriately evalu...

LOS ANGELES -- A one-game suspension to Martin Hanzal wasn't enough in the eyes of some L.A. Kings. "I mean, I know these games are probably worth more," Kings captain Dustin Brown, the victim of the boarding penalty, said Thursday morning. "I tho...

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Game 2 of the Western Conference finals turned a little nasty Tuesday night with a pair of boarding majors that luckily didn't result in serious injury. Coyotes captain Shane Doan got five minutes and the game for his hit from b...

ESPN.com's Pierre LeBrun and ESPN The Magazine's Craig Custance discuss Jeff Carter's hat trick and the physical play in the Kings' Game 2 win over the Coyotes....

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Simon Gagne has been cleared for contact and is skating back in Los Angeles, but don't hold you breathe waiting to see the veteran winger back in the Kings' lineup. Los Angeles head coach Darryl Sutter didn't sound very optimist...