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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- In a playoff year that has been dominated by goaltending drama, Chicago Blackhawks netminder Corey Crawford is the King of Calm. On Tuesday night alone the Montreal Canadiens lost starting goaltender Carey Price to injury and th...

St. PAUL, Minn. -- In a playoff year that has been dominated by goaltending drama, Chicago Blackhawks netminder Corey Crawford is the King of Calm. On Tuesday night alone the Montreal Canadiens lost starting goaltender Carey Price to injury and t...

The road to Brendan Shanahan's door should be renamed The Path of Least Resistance. Whatever is guaranteed to create the least amount of fuss, whatever allows the latest ugly on-ice mess to dissipate into the ether as quickly as possible, that's w...

What an interesting week ahead for the league-leading -- and possibly record-setting -- Pittsburgh Penguins. On the record front, the team has won 15 straight games and can tie the NHL record for consecutive games won in a season with wins over t...

As we approach the halfway point of this shrunken NHL season, one of the interesting storylines has been the renaissance of two Original Six rivals whose recent history has been anything but historic. But there they were Wednesday night, the Montreal...

• Kudos to the Chicago Blackhawks for tying an NHL record with at least a point in 16 straight games to open a season after knocking off Vancouver in a shootout 4-3 on Tuesday night. Here's hoping they didn't pay for it with the loss of one of ...

If there is one thing that separates the good teams from the mediocre and the great ones from the good, it's consistency of effort. Poor teams invariably see wild swings in effort and results, sometimes within a few days. Monday was ...

• On a rare light night in the league, Swedish goaltending sensation Viktor Fasth earned his first NHL shutout, stopping all 31 Colorado shots en route to a 3-0 victory. The win moved the surprising Ducks to 7-1-1 as Fasth has quickly surp...

• The Pittsburgh Penguins are starting to round into the kind of groove many anticipated at the start of the season. After spanking New Jersey Saturday by a 5-1 count for their first home win of the season, they traveled to Washington and ...

• Finally a blemish, slight at that, on the record of the Chicago Blackhawks. After chasing Minnesota Wild starter Josh Harding in the first period Wednesday night, the Blackhawks could not hold on to a one-goal lead and fell to the Wild 3...

It has been a week since the NHL returned from its self-imposed lockout exile. It's far too early to draw lasting conclusions but certainly enough to gather initial impressions, now that we're detailing power-play success over HRR and back-diving con...

--Let's start with the reunion of Ryan Suter and his former teammates from Nashville in Minnesota. This won't have the emotional charge of Suter's much-anticipated return to downtown Nashville on March 9, but you know that Suter's old mates were look...

NEW YORK -- There is something more circular than arc-like about the path Mike Commodore's career has taken. Seven years ago, the big defenseman was coming off a trip to the 2004 Stanley Cup finals with the Calgary Flames when coach and GM Darryl ...

We recall sitting down with Michel Therrien (or "Mike," as he prefers to be called now) for the first time in his office in Pittsburgh more than five years ago. The Penguins, under the iron-willed Therrien, had gone from post-lockout laughingstock...

When Marc Bergevin, the new GM of the Montreal Canadiens, retired from hockey, he called his old pal Dale Tallon and told him that he was making a list of guys he would like to work for in an off-ice role. "And he said, guess what, you made the li...

1. Oh no, CanadaNot a banner year for most of Canada's seven NHL entries whose fans continue to blindly support them in spite of, in some cases, repeated futility. When the dust clears Saturday night at the close of the regular season, all seven Cana...