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The day after the trade deadline is often like the day after a big family wedding. Lots of stuff to sift through. Maybe you'll find an unexpected and unopened gift, or maybe you'll be reminded that the gift you thought stunk the day before still stin...

Is it possible we're going to look back on these opening days of the 2013 season as the defining moment for the Philadelphia Flyers? Already reeling from an 0-3 start that has seen them outscored 11-3, the Flyers got a double-whammy on Wednesday. ...

Claude Giroux feels he is ready for the heady challenge of taking on the Philadelphia Flyers' captaincy, writes Scott Burnside.

The equation is relatively simple for the Predators: match Shea Weber's deal and remain relevant, or give up any hope of being a contender, of attracting top talent, of being anything other than a team treading water and wondering when the lights will go out for good.

So far, the Minnesota Wild and Detroit Red Wings are on opposite sides of the puck when it comes to free-agent winners and losers, writes Scott Burnside.

If there is a theme for the 2012 NHL draft, it might well be O Brother, Where Are Thou? For the second time in three days, a major trade brought two brothers together. In this case, late Saturday afternoon the Philadelphia Flyers bolstered their b...

There will be 30 tables on the floor of the Consol Energy Center for the NHL draft Friday and Saturday. Each one represents a team. Each one its own community, its own command center full of angst and intrigue and, yes, on occasion hurt feelings, writes Scott Burnside.

A fiercely competitive player evolved into a daring, independent thinker when Paul Holmgren became the general manager of the Philadelphia Flyers, writes Scott Burnside.

The Penguins' penalty-killing unit needs to get its act in gear, writes Scott Burnside.

PHILADELPHIA -- One of the local Philadelphia papers had a picture of Sidney Crosby dressed up as a lion with the headline "The Cowardly Penguin." Not sure we get it since Crosby was chastised for running around trying to rough up a handful of Philad...

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...

From Malkin's season to Parise's future, Scott Burnside evaluates how we did answering our 10 burning questions from the preseason.

It was a most curious day for the Philadelphia Flyers. They got even deeper across the blue line by adding veteran big-bodied Stanley Cup winner Pavel Kubina, but once again, despite all the building and tinkering, appear to be lacking that one criti...

Burnside: Good day, my friend. So, did we start to see the loosening of the trade logjam Thursday, with Dominic Moore being dealt from Tampa to San Jose and the Lightning publicly acknowledging they've asked defenseman Pavel Kubina to provide them wi...

1. Parenteau's future with IslandersOne of the great off-the-radar stories this season has to be the blossoming of New York Islanders forward P.A. Parenteau into one of the game's premier setup men. He was drafted in the ninth round of the 2001 entry...

Marc Savard is the living, breathing example of what can happen months after a player has suffered a severe concussion.