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The Minnesota Wild didn't get any help on the scoreboard Thursday night with both the Detroit Red Wings and Columbus Blue Jackets winning. So Friday night's game with the Edmonton Oilers does indeed matter, the Wild needing a victory to clinch the...

The Toronto Maple Leafs traded winger Mike Brown to the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for a conditional fourth-round pick in 2014, the Leafs announced Monday.

The NHL is proposing a new realignment plan which would feature playoff wild-card spots plus see the league go from six divisions to four.

Somewhere between admitting he injured his back eating pancakes and getting scratched by coach Darryl Sutter, Dustin Penner hit rock bottom. But he picked himself off the mat and rediscovered the hockey player who won a Cup in 2007, writes Pierre LeBrun.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Kings fans had one question in cyberspace overnight: Would highly touted center prospect Brayden Schenn be called up to the NHL club after his junior club got eliminated from the WHL playoffs Wednesday night? With top center An...

Before the playoffs start, Pierre LeBrun takes a look at this summer's unrestricted free-agent crop.

TORONTO -- The Philadelphia Flyers have made their fans a little nervous, some even panicky, with a month to go before the NHL playoffs. Their fears were somewhat justified Tuesday night when, after a 4-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers, veteran defe...

These two dark nights on the NHL schedule provide a chance to sit back and look at what we have. Once again this year, I'm using this short detente in the action to predict which of our non-playoff teams will shoot themselves back into a playoff spot...

These two dark nights on the NHL schedule provide a chance to sit back and look at what we have. Once again this year, I'm using this short detente in the action to predict which of our non-playoff teams will shoot themselves back into a playoff spot...

Many of us media types have left the Montreal Canadiens for dead many times this season. Like the time when their best player, defenseman Andrei Markov, ripped his Achilles tendon in the 2009-10 opener and was lost for half the season. "See ya lat...

Many of us media types have left the Montreal Canadiens for dead many times this season. Like the time when their best player, defenseman Andrei Markov, ripped his Achilles tendon in the 2009-10 opener and was lost for half the season. "See ya lat...

Many of us media types have left the Montreal Canadiens for dead many times this season. Like the time when their best player, defenseman Andrei Markov, ripped his Achilles tendon in the 2009-10 opener and was lost for half the season. "See ya late...

There are many parallels between these Cup finals and the Islanders and Oilers in 1983-84, but this being the end of Detroit's greatness isn't one of them.

As I tried to stay awake this morning during the three-hour trek back to the nation's capital from New York City for tonight's Game 5 between the Rangers and Capitals, I am tormented by what is happening three time zones away. As many of you ESPN.co...

For all the attention paid to Alex Ovechkin, Mike Green and a deep supporting cast, any single conversation one has concerning the playoff chances of the Washington Capitals comes back to one name and one name only: Jose Theodore.

Over the next two months, the hockey world will focus on the chase for Lord Stanley's prize. But before we dive headfirst into that wild journey, let's sign off for this season and look at the teams that won't make the spring party. We'll touch only...