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WILMINGTON, Mass. -- If, as expected, Boston Bruins power forward Milan Lucic has not merely played his way down the lineup but out of it altogether, there could hardly be a more stark illustration of the concerns facing the team as it prepares for t...

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 ...

Devils coach Peter DeBoer has been coaching for years, but he's finally found his place, writes Scott Burnside.

This series was a coming-out party for Claude Giroux, who came within a point of tying a franchise record with 14 points in six games. He had a goal and two assists on Sunday and was a constant problem for which the Penguins had no solution.

Color Scott Hartnell and Peter Laviolette among those who had no problem with what was a wild and woolly Game 3 in the Eastern Conference quarterfinal between their Philadelphia Flyers and the Pittsburgh Penguins. In fact, Hartnell said the first ...

Days before the actual drop of the puck heralding the start of this cross-state playoff series between the Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins, the rhetoric machine was already in the red. You had Philadelphia Flyers coach Peter Laviolette $1...

Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli has lived much of his professional life in the shadows of near-anonymity in one of the biggest hockey markets in the world. And he's OK with that.

In the press room after Monday's Winter Classic in Philadelphia, head coach Peter Laviolette praised the presence of HBO's cameras in the Flyers dressing room these past few weeks. "You know, I think the product speaks for itself," he said. The...

Three weeks from now the doors will open on NHL training camps with physicals and the first on-ice sessions. Will some of the game's biggest stars and emerging young players be ready to go? Here's a look at some names that may or may not be ready to ...

We happened to be talking to a former NHL executive this week and Peter DeBoer's name came up. The idea that DeBoer would be named the next coach of the New Jersey Devils, which he was Tuesday, didn't come up in the conversation. But what was m...

The Detroit Red Wings are a little bit like E.F. Hutton -- when they talk, everybody listens. So, there might have been some arched eyebrows when coach Mike Babcock went with two relatively anonymous choices for two assistant-coaching positions: form...

The Eastern Conference finals matchup between the Bruins and Lightning features two teams with good to great balance up front, but which club will win?

You're going to hear a lot about demons being exorcised as the second round of these playoffs starts. Vancouver hopes it's gone all William Peter Blatty on the Chicago Blackhawks. The Nashville Predators did some hocus pocus on Anaheim in getting out...

The Flyers are calling Chris Pronger's status for Game 5 of the series against the Buffalo Sabres a game-time situation.

Interesting exchange between veteran Flyers beat writer Tim Panaccio and Philadelphia coach Peter Laviolette on Thursday. Panaccio told Laviolette he was going to ask a semi-hypothetical question. "I'll probably shoot this one down pretty quick...

When Peter Forsberg showed up on the Colorado Avalanche's doorstep less than a month ago, many weren't necessarily looking for the truth, but for something a little less harsh. They were looking for something that would fit into a Hollywood screenpla...