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The Bruins have knocked Patrick Kane off his game in the Stanley Cup finals, denying the Blackhawks winger room to maneuver, writes Scott Burnside.

The Bruins-Penguins series is unfolding much like the 1997 Stanley Cup finals, in which an underrated Detroit team swept Philadelphia, writes Scott Burnside.

PITTSBURGH -- Everything we thought we knew about these Eastern Conference finals and how they might play out has now been blown to smithereens. Kaboom. What we imagined as a potentially classic battle between two deep, experienced, talented, ...

The Penguins still do not know whether they will be without Sidney Crosby in Wednesday's playoff opener against the New York Islanders, but there's no panic in Pittsburgh, writes Scott Burnside.

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.

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

PHIADELPHIA -- If we accept that the Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins enjoy one of the most heated, emotional rivalries in all of pro sport, by extension the competition between the two teams' talented captains is also chock full of emotio...

PHILADELPHIA -- Hockey came home Saturday afternoon. It came home to the familiar chants of "Crosby sucks!" from the largest crowd -- 19,994 -- to ever attend a Philadelphia Flyers regular-season game. It came home to heartfelt thank-yous from ...

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

Sure, it's hard to remember now, but there were actually plenty of highs in the NHL during 2012, writes Scott Burnside.

Even though the Western Conference's Los Angeles Kings won the Cup doesn't mean the East didn't have some moments worth remembering, writes Scott Burnside.

After a surprising first-round exit, the Penguins have to consider making five changes in order to get back to the dance, writes Scott Burnside.

This series was a coming-out party for Claude Giroux, who came within a point of tying a franchise record with 14 points in six games. He had a goal and two assists on Sunday and was a constant problem for which the Penguins had no solution.

The distance between the two locker rooms at Wells Fargo Center is maybe 30 yards. But the distance on this Sunday afternoon, with the Philadelphia Flyers celebrating their opening-round victory over Pittsburgh and the Penguins wondering how it all fell apart so quickly, seemed infinitely greater.

Playing behind Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin on the depth chart hasn't hurt Jordan Staal, who has emerged as the sudden hero for the Pittsburgh Penguins, 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...