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PITTSBURGH -- Flash back to the third period of Game 5, 2007 Stanley Cup finals. The Ottawa Senators are sunk. They are trailing in the third period of what would be a 6-2 loss to the Anaheim Ducks in the final game in that final series, and the f...

After a long wait for a top job, Ottawa Senators head coach Paul MacLean is doing things his way.

PITTSBURGH -- Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma didn't have a vote for the coach of the year award, but if he had one, he'd have cast it for his counterpart with the Ottawa Senators, Paul MacLean. The Ottawa coach was named as a finalist for the Jack...

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

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...

We're not privy to the NHL's marketing slogan for the 2013-14 season, but it might be something like "Go Big or Go Home, but Definitely Go Outdoors." Of course, if you read much of the negative commentary surrounding the NHL's decision to multiply...

Our guess is that a lot of folks will tag this series as an upset special. Part of that will be the fact the Red Wings rolled into their 22nd straight playoff tournament by winning four straight under trying circumstances after flirting with disastro...

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.

Funny how the expected can suddenly get turned on its ear in the push for a playoff berth. A week ago, after the trade deadline had passed and the Dallas Stars had sold off three key pieces of today for a bunch of tomorrows, they were whipped 5-2 ...

ESPN.com's Scott Burnside and ESPNBoston.com's Joe McDonald debate the fallout of the Bruins losing out on the Jarome Iginla sweepstakes. BURNSIDE: Greetings, Joe, must be a lot of long faces among the Boston Bruins faithful today, many of whom mi...

The Blackhawks' Corey Crawford and Ray Emery have each overcome their own adversity to help backstop the best team in the NHL, writes Scott Burnside.

And so we have a race. In spite of an NHL-record 24-game points streak to start the NHL season, the Chicago Blackhawks still have the Anaheim Ducks fully in their rearview mirror after the Ducks' dramatic 4-2 in Anaheim Wednesday night. Although t...

It has become a bit of a throwaway line: The Chicago Blackhawks, runaway leaders in the Western Conference. Um, leaders? Yes. Runaway? Well, the Anaheim Ducks might have something to say about the relative merits of the term "runaway." The Bla...

Scott Burnside and Pierre LeBrun make their picks for the major awards at the midpoint of the 2013 season.

We all like to point to statement games without acknowledging that those games and their importance last exactly the amount of time it takes to play the game. So you can rest assured that, although disappointed at being beaten 5-2 at Staples Center o...