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A trade deadline day that began at a snail's pace and finished with a great flurry of activity has, like all trade deadlines, the potential to alter the playoff grids in both conferences and perhaps even who hoists the Stanley Cup in late June. Lots ...

Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli has lived much of his professional life in the shadows of near-anonymity in one of the biggest hockey markets in the world. And he's OK with that.

Scott Burnside and Pierre LeBrun discuss the questionable circumstances surrounding Thursday night's trade between Montreal and Calgary: Burnside: Good day, my friend. Got to hand it to the Montreal Canadiens. They may be junk on the ice, but they...

Scott Burnside and Pierre LeBrun look back at the first quarter of the season and hand out grades for all 30 NHL teams.

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- We recall a long chat we had with new Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman John-Michael Liles during a trip to Denver last year. The then-Avs defenseman had suffered through a couple of down seasons in Colorado, was a healthy scratch and...

The high water mark for the newest New York Ranger, Bryan McCabe, may well have come during the 2005-06 season when he was a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Unleashing a massive shot, he roared through the first half of the first post-lockout c...

Stock UpMikael Samuelsson, Vancouver Canucks: One of the question marks about the Canucks -- apart from whether they'll have enough defensemen to field a team from night to night -- is whether they have enough scoring depth to stay with the big boys ...

Ah those popular Pittsburgh Penguins continue to collect points in the standings and votes in the All-Star voting universe with just one week left in the fan balloting portion of the 2011 All-Star selections. Led by captain Sidney Crosby (how ofte...

Ah those popular Pittsburgh Penguins continue to collect points in the standings and votes in the All-Star voting universe with just one week left in the fan balloting portion of the 2011 All-Star selections. Led by captain Sidney Crosby (how ofte...

Scott Burnside and Pierre LeBrun discuss the issues facing the Maple Leafs and Bruins (give us your take here): Burnside: Well my friend, the holidays won't be all that cheery for the Toronto Maple Leafs, who seem to follow up even the smallest gl...

Scott Burnside and Pierre LeBrun discuss the issues facing the Maple Leafs and Bruins (give us your take here): Burnside: Well my friend, the holidays won't be all that cheery for the Toronto Maple Leafs, who seem to follow up even the smallest gl...

All we need is for Pittsburgh fans to start penciling in Pascal Dupuis or Chris Kunitz and Brooks Orpik and the All-Star Game in Raleigh next month will be an all-Penguin affair. No surprise that captain Sidney Crosby is the run-away leader in vot...

All we need is for Pittsburgh fans to start penciling in Pascal Dupuis or Chris Kunitz and Brooks Orpik and the All-Star Game in Raleigh next month will be an all-Penguin affair. No surprise that captain Sidney Crosby is the run-away leader in vot...

Ah, the freedom of choice. For the second week in a row, voters are blazing their own trail by writing in a bevy of potential NHL All-Stars, starting with the two top vote-getting goaltenders, Montreal's red-hot Carey Price and sensational Philade...

Ah, the freedom of choice. For the second week in a row, voters are blazing their own trail by writing in a bevy of potential NHL All-Stars, starting with the two top vote-getting goaltenders, Montreal's red-hot Carey Price and sensational Philade...

Although there are varying degrees of pressure and expectations on all 30 NHL coaches (from raw rookies to battle-tested veteran bench bosses), some may be feeling the heat earlier and more intensely than others heading into the start of training cam...