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There's always a lot of hocus-pocus when a team is down 3-0 in a best-of-seven series, and while Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma acknowledged "it's not a very encouraging picture," it was still interesting to hear Bylsma liken the situation...

As is seemingly the case every season, the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs had something for everyone, Scott Burnside writes

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Wild's goaltending situation appears to have gone from dramatic to dire in very short order. Josh Harding, diagnosed before this season with multiple sclerosis, provided inspirational play coming on at the start of...

St. PAUL, Minn. -- In a playoff year that has been dominated by goaltending drama, Chicago Blackhawks netminder Corey Crawford is the King of Calm. On Tuesday night alone the Montreal Canadiens lost starting goaltender Carey Price to injury and t...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- In a playoff year that has been dominated by goaltending drama, Chicago Blackhawks netminder Corey Crawford is the King of Calm. On Tuesday night alone the Montreal Canadiens lost starting goaltender Carey Price to injury and th...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- In the middle of a hotly contested playoff series and with a crucial game in the offing, individual awards may seem relatively inconsequential. But when it was revealed Tuesday morning that Ryan Suter was a finalist for the Norr...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- That Josh Harding chooses not to let the fact he has multiple sclerosis become a talking point in this playoff season is his prerogative. This is the time for discussion to be about pucks and saves and swings in momentum, not medic...

The road to Brendan Shanahan's door should be renamed The Path of Least Resistance. Whatever is guaranteed to create the least amount of fuss, whatever allows the latest ugly on-ice mess to dissipate into the ether as quickly as possible, that's w...

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...

ST. PAUL, Minn -- Rookie Jason Zucker, the overtime hero of the Minnesota Wild's crucial 3-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday, admitted he wasn't aiming for a spot but just hoping to get the puck on net. He did more than that, of cour...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- At the same time Minnesota Wild players were stepping onto the ice for practice, workers outside the Xcel Energy Center were putting up a giant sign: Fight To The End. So far in this Western Conference quarterfinals series betw...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- It's still unknown whether Minnesota Wild netminder Niklas Backstrom has recovered sufficiently from an injury suffered in warm-up before Game 1 of their series against the Chicago Blackhawks to play Sunday in Game 3. Further, i...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- At the same time Minnesota Wild players were stepping onto the ice for practice, workers outside the Xcel Energy Center were putting up a giant sign: Fight To The End. So far in this Western Conference quarterfinals series betwe...

In spite of the Chicago Blackhawks' status as runaway winners of the Western Conference and their place as Presidents' Trophy winners as top team in the NHL, the Western Conference is fraught with potential trap doors. The lone exception to the trap-...

Just about anything can happen in the playoffs, and Scott Burnside offers up his five most intriguing storylines of the postseason.

If the Western Conference remains a place of high anxiety for teams such as the Minnesota Wild, Detroit Red Wings and Columbus Blue Jackets, who are wrestling for the final two playoff berths in the final days of the regular season, there is at last ...