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With the Stanley Cup finals starting Wednesday, both the Bruins and Blackhawks are ready for memories, Scott Burnside writes.

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

The fact that the past four Stanley Cup champs are in this year's conference finals is a testament to good management, writes Scott Burnside.

From the Penguins' offensive clinic to Raffi Torres' hit, the second round of the NHL Playoffs had a little for everyone to enjoy, or not, Scott Burnside writes.

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

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.