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CHICAGO -- It is uncanny, really, the symmetry that exists in the storylines for both head coaches in the Stanley Cup finals. Claude Julien of the Boston Bruins and Joel Quenneville of the Chicago Blackhawks are Stanley Cup winners, of course, and...

Versatile forward Patrick Sharp is as big a part of Chicago's story as any of the Blackhawks' star players, writes Pierre LeBrun

CHICAGO -- Oh baby, these guys are rolling. Was it really just more than a week ago that the Chicago Blackhawks found themselves on the brink of elimination, down 3-1 in a series with the Detroit Red Wings? Five wins a row later, and now the on...

LOS ANGELES -- A titanic Californian fortnight is over, ending the way it began, with a Jonathan Quick gem. What else is new, right? A series that was incredibly close had to end, the reigning Stanley Cup champions raising their game one more t...

The last time Original Six rivals the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks met in the playoffs was in the 2009 Western Conference finals, with the Blackhawks the young bucks still figuring things out and the Red Wings the veteran contenders en ro...

The Los Angeles Kings were surprise Stanley Cup winners last season. Pierre LeBrun takes a look at this season's team and see fives reasons it can repeat as champs.

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...

Not on Z's watch. Those were Dan Cleary's words Tuesday when discussing how badly the Detroit Red Wings want to avoid missing the playoffs for the first time in 22 seasons. It just can't happen in Henrik Zetterberg's first tour of duty wearing ...

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.

The Kings look to be contenders for years to come, but they have a few roster decisions to make this offseason, writes Pierre LeBrun.

The Western Conference claimed the Stanley Cup and had some of the playoffs' best moments, writes Pierre LeBrun.

Well, it's been a wild ride, hasn't it? Our experts take a look at all the best and worst moments of the playoffs, so far.

It's too easy to just say, it's a changing of the guard in the Western Conference. It's not that simple anymore. The cap system seven years out has introduced so much parity that the construction and deconstruction of teams is a different process now.

As the Boston Bruins and Vancouver Canucks proved last year in getting valuable mileage from trade deadline pickups, it's not always the big moves or big names that have an impact in the playoffs. Chris Kelly and Rich Peverley paid dividends for t...

The Sharks advanced to the West finals after delivering one of the biggest clutch performances in the franchise's history.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Ryane Clowe was not on the ice for his team's practice Wednesday, but there is hope the valuable San Jose winger can try it out at Thursday's morning skate ahead of Game 7 against the Detroit Red Wings. "Better today," Sharks c...