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The Senators feel the first five minutes of Game 3 could seal their fate in the series against the Pittsburgh Penguins, Scott Burnside writes

He's missed all but five games this season due to injury, but the Senators hope Jason Spezza can provide the spark they need to take on the Penguins.

The Ottawa Senators' top center, Jason Spezza, will return to the team's lineup in Game 3 of their second-round NHL playoff series against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday evening after missing most of the season with a back injury.

PITTSBURGH -- He still sports an ungainly face shield that makes him look more linebacker or sci-fi gladiator than hockey player. And a glimpse at his lower jaw area puts one in mind of a picket fence battered by a tornado. But make no mistake: Si...

PITTSBURGH -- Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma didn't have a vote for the coach of the year award, but if he had one, he'd have cast it for his counterpart with the Ottawa Senators, Paul MacLean. The Ottawa coach was named as a finalist for the Jack...

Count Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby among those who would like to see the NHL use video replay to confirm the accuracy of delay of game penalties.

PITTSBURGH -- Penguins defensive coach Todd Reirden always has this message for the team's young defensive prospects who think they're ready for a taste of the National Hockey League: Go check out No. 44, and then you'll know if you're really ready. ...

PITTSBURGH -- If the Pittsburgh Penguins learned anything from their wobbly first-round victory over the New York Islanders, it's this: hair-on-fire hockey, bad; patient, lethal hockey, good. In a 4-1 Game 1 win over the Ottawa Senators that was m...

PITTSBURGH -- It's a bit hard to get your head around it, but the start of the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs is relatively foreign territory for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Ottawa Senators. That may explain the great collective exhalati...

Talk about a flair for the dramatic. The Boston Bruins, on the verge of blowing a 3-1 series lead against the plucky Toronto Maple Leafs, stormed back from a 4-1 deficit in Game 7 to tie the game in the waning moments of regulation and then win it 5-...

NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told ESPN.com Monday that the league had dismissed Darin Pastor's bid to buy the Phoenix Coyotes from the league because it didn't meet the league's requirements.

As is seemingly the case every season, the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs had something for everyone, Scott Burnside writes

PITTSBURGH -- You can talk about the tinkering with the line combinations, the introduction of a couple of energy guys to the lineup and the second-period explosion of offense, but the Pittsburgh Penguins' 4-0 victory in Game 5 -- and the restaking o...

PITTSBURGH -- If there is a feeling of history surrounding the decision to bench Pittsburgh Penguins netminder Marc-Andre Fleury for the first time in the playoffs, that sense of history cuts deeper than just the ending of a personal streak. True,...

PITTSBURGH -- Not to put too fine a point on it, but it's hard not to imagine that the Pittsburgh Penguins' Dan Bylsma has just made his most important decision as a head coach. A man who won a Stanley Cup after just a few months on the job in Jun...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Wild's goaltending situation appears to have gone from dramatic to dire in very short order. Josh Harding, diagnosed before this season with multiple sclerosis, provided inspirational play coming on at the start of...