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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- On a day when life was breathed back into the State of Hockey, it turned out to be the kid from Newport Beach, Calif., who did the resuscitating. Go figure. In what now ranks as one of the most important victories in franchis...

PITTSBURGH -- You wonder how fine the line is between a career being over and having one more shot at glory. Mark Eaton doesn't need to wonder. He knows that line is razor thin. He also knows how it feels to be on the right side of that line. ...

PITTSBURGH -- Islanders coach Jack Capuano talked before the game about the need for his team to stay disciplined. Yet early in the first period, former Penguin Brian Strait took exception to a Matt Cooke hit on one of his teammates and gave Cooke a ...

The 1979-80 Philadelphia Flyers team that went on a 35-game unbeaten streak knows exactly how many moments go into a run like the one the Chicago Blackhawks are on, writes Scott Burnside.

• 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 ...

The trip comes to a close with the Blues running the table, beating Detroit, Calgary and, on Sunday night in an emotional tilt against one of the best teams in the NHL, squeaking by the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 in a shootout, writes Scott Burnside.

• On a night full of wacky stuff, you could hardly find a wackier game than the Buffalo Sabres' 7-4 win over Northeast Division-leading Boston. The Sabres had been winless in four. At one point, they trailed the Bruins 3-1 after the teams ...

• 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...

The St. Louis Blues have all the right ingredients to win the franchise's first Stanley Cup, writes Scott Burnside.

NEW YORK -- If there is one moment that captured the NHL lockout and all its foolishness, it was the tortured visage of commissioner Gary Bettman a little more than three weeks ago here. On that night, with talks hitting the rocks after a brief sp...

One of the interesting phenomena to grow out of the ongoing NHL lockout has been what might be dubbed the "flash camp." With relatively short notice, groups of NHL players have descended on a variety of locations like Dallas and Phoenix this fall ...

Pat Curcio has mixed feelings on the NHL work stoppage. On one hand, the native of the Toronto suburb of North York is a hockey fan and misses his daily dose of NHL hockey. But as part-owner, president, general manager and head coach of the fle...

An interesting dynamic of this year's awards was that each player who won a trophy that was voted on (as opposed to one based on statistical outcomes) was a first-time winner. This includes Henrik Lundqvist, who earned his first Vezina Trophy afte...

There will be 30 tables on the floor of the Consol Energy Center for the NHL draft Friday and Saturday. Each one represents a team. Each one its own community, its own command center full of angst and intrigue and, yes, on occasion hurt feelings, writes Scott Burnside.

In a game that was desperate for a winner, the Devils squandered a golden opportunity, writes Scott Burnside.

For all their money and big-city profile and the swagger that is the New York Rangers, this ending was all too familiar, writes Scott Burnside.