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

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...

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 ...

Jack Johnson's calm belies the decidedly jittery situation in which the Columbus Blue Jackets find themselves. Johnson was taking time before the Blue Jackets boarded their flight to Dallas, where they will play one of the most important games in...

For a host of playoff bubble teams facing dire situations, Tuesday was not a good night. With the Dallas Stars, New York Rangers, New York Islanders and Winnipeg Jets all scrambling to secure tickets to the postseason dance, those four teams some...

When you make the playoffs every year since 1990, as the Detroit Red Wings have, you're going to run into some naysayers and skeptics along the way. That's been the case pretty regularly since the last lockout, and yet the Wings keep plugging along, ...

So, maybe we were a bit hasty in assuming the Minnesota Wild were locks to make the playoffs. After a lackluster 4-1 loss Sunday night to the lowly Calgary Flames, the Wild woke up Monday to find that they'd sunk into a tie with the Columbus Blue...

You can look at games in hand and the upcoming schedule and project all you want, but at this time of year, the results are the results and the standings are the standings. And so it is that on Thursday morning, the Detroit Red Wings, playoff part...

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 ...

Here's a look at five teams for whom the trade deadline looms large, writes Scott Burnside.

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

• Kudos to the Chicago Blackhawks for tying an NHL record with at least a point in 16 straight games to open a season after knocking off Vancouver in a shootout 4-3 on Tuesday night. Here's hoping they didn't pay for it with the loss of one of ...

Trying to build on the team's 4-3 overtime win on Wednesday in Detroit has become a little more taxing for the Blues, writes Scott Burnside.