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The Penguins are more than Sidney Crosby and a dynamic offense, and that is just one of five reasons Scott Burnside cites for Pittsburgh being the favorite going into the playoffs.

The NHL is in the final planning stages of its much-anticipated series of outdoor stadium games next season that would see six outdoor contests set to take place in football and baseball stadium across North America, sources told ESPN.com Tuesday.

A trade deadline day that began at a snail's pace and finished with a great flurry of activity has, like all trade deadlines, the potential to alter the playoff grids in both conferences and perhaps even who hoists the Stanley Cup in late June. Lots ...

Here's a look at five teams for whom the trade deadline looms large, writes Scott Burnside.

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...

It is almost a rite of spring, the annual pre-trade deadline move by Pittsburgh Penguins GM Ray Shero. It doesn't always have the intended result -- think Alexei Kovalev or Alexei Ponikarovsky in 2011 and 2010, respectively -- but it has worked of...

Promising starts for two Eastern Conference teams have been rendered moot by goaltending issues ranging from poor play to a lack of durability. That theme was on display Monday night in both cases. The New Jersey Devils extended their winless stre...

• 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 ...

--It was a night of triumph and pain for the Toronto Maple Leafs as they thumped the previously undefeated Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 Wednesday night, ruining the Pens' home opener. James van Riemsdyk, a key offseason acquisition, scored his first two g...

Fred Shero, former Flyers and Rangers coach, has Hockey Hall of Fame credentials, writes Scott Burnside.

This is the week that hockey has a chance to prove it can get it right, Scott Burnside writes.

Even though the Western Conference's Los Angeles Kings won the Cup doesn't mean the East didn't have some moments worth remembering, writes Scott Burnside.

The NHL needs to find a solution to this sudden rise in calamitous collisions and dirty play, writes Scott Burnside.

Undrafted, at times unwanted, Pascal Dupuis turned the disappointments early in his career into something that every player cherishes -- a home, a place to be needed and wanted.

It appears we are now days away from the return of Sidney Crosby to NHL action, Part Deux. And once again the league is abuzz with anticipation. After talking to team doctors at Monday's home game against Phoenix, Crosby was cleared for contact...

Here's a look at teams that took a step in the right direction before the trade deadline and some that stubbed their toes on a day that failed to live up to expectations because of a small number of sellers and the high prices being asked by those wi...