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The Leafs owe the end of their lengthy playoff drought to the puck luck gods, and the Devils could have been contenders ... if they'd had more time.

Story | Conversation | May 01, 2013

BOSTON -- The Boston Bruins lost an opportunity to secure the Northeast Division title and lost to the Ottawa Senators 4-2 Sunday night at TD Garden. The Bruins conclude the 2012-13 lockout-shortened schedule with a 28-14-6 record for 62 poi...

Victoria Matiash provides her final top 75 defensemen rankings of the season and projects fantasy values for the 2013-14 NHL campaign, forecasting Ottawa's Erik Karlsson, Pittsburgh's Kris Letang and Montreal's P.K. Subban as the top three D-men.

The Winter Classic between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings at Michigan Stadium, canceled this season due to the NHL lockout, has been rescheduled for Jan. 1 next season.

Brad Marchand's production is just one reason the B's are Cup contenders.

BOSTON -- Due to the lockout-shortened, 48-game season, the only way the Boston Bruins will play the Chicago Blackhawks this year would be in the Stanley Cup finals. That would be an incredible matchup of Original Six teams, but before we get...

Tim Kavanagh discusses the injuries to Cam Ward and Jose Theodore, and offers up his latest goalie rankings.

Maple Leafs-Islanders Preview

Victoria Matiash updates her defenseman rankings and outlines young D-men to target who are widely available in ESPN.com fantasy leagues.

NHL teams instituted the largest ticket percentage increase among the four major sports for the second consecutive season, according to an annual study by Chicago-based sports marketing research firm, Team Marketing Report.

The Boston Bruins' goal during this lockout-shortened, 48-game season is to avoid consecutive losses, especially when they're playing a string of games like this week's stretch of four games in six nights. The Bruins were able to avoid back-to-bac...

Victoria Matiash updates her defensemen rankings and also discusses the changes in value of former Predators defensive line mates Shea Weber and Ryan Suter.

Maple Leafs-Rangers Preview

Tim Kavanagh looks at the goalies who spent the lockout seeing game action and finds that it has been to their advantage thus far.

Nazem Kadri and Tyler Bozak scored power-play goals as the Toronto Maple Leafs opened the lockout-shortened NHL season with a 2-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.

After a four-month lockout, the NHL is set to finally drop the puck. Teams have been practicing for six days. Six whole days! And they've all had an intrasquad scrimmage, too. That's more than enough preseason hockey action to draw conclusions fo...