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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.

BOSTON -- Listen to Patrice Bergeron and Jonathan Toews for any amount of time, and there is an almost perpetual calm about them. Win or lose, up in a playoff series or down, struggling to find the back of the net or operating at an almost otherwo...

Boston Bruins head coach Claude Julien has an appealing Everyman quality to him. He is rarely bombastic, mostly understated and often affable, but he's never, ever at ease in the spotlight. He was asked Sunday if there was some ego that lurked som...

With their amazing playoff runs, Corey Crawford and Tuukka Rask may have played themselves into the conversation for Team Canada and Team Finland in Sochi, writes Scott Burnside.

CHICAGO -- For much of the early part of Game 2 of these achingly close Stanley Cup finals, it appeared as though the Boston Bruins had spoken the right words but were going to be unable to summon the will to move on from an emotional triple-overtime...

Fans, teammates can't get enough of center Patrice Bergeron, who came a long way in a short time, writes Scott Burnside.

CHICAGO -- Marian Hossa figured it was around 3 a.m. Thursday before the adrenaline finally seeped out his body and allowed him to fall asleep. Which made his neighbor's home improvement activities a few hours later a rude reminder of Hossa's long...

For Pittsburgh Penguins GM Ray Shero, it was never about whether he should trade Evgeni Malkin but about whether Malkin wanted to be in Pittsburgh. Playing alongside a superstar like Sidney Crosby, and thus being in the considerable shadow cast by...

CHICAGO -- In the moment when Michal Rozsival's point shot ricocheted first off teammate Dave Bolland's stick and then off Andrew Shaw's leg and past a helpless Tuukka Rask to bring this epic Stanley Cup final tilt to an end came two thoughts. Fir...

CHICAGO -- Although the salary cap will go down next season to $64.3 million, the league looks to be positioning itself well for a return to pre-lockout revenue totals. The 48-game, lockout-shortened season played to 97 percent capacity during the...

The long, tortuous ownership saga of the Phoenix Coyotes is entering its final phase.

CHICAGO -- There is a significant intertwining of storylines from Slovakia and the Czech Republic on both sides of the Stanley Cup finals divide. There is the reverence shown the Boston Bruins' Jaromir Jagr, the Czech winger who is in his first fi...

Slovak Michal Handzus and Czech Michal Rozsival, a well-traveled pair, might finally win rings with the Blackhawks, Scott Burnside writes.

For years it's been assumed that games in the regular season and playoffs will be officiated differently. Scott Burnside asks, is that hurting game?

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

Instead of gearing up for Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Final Sunday, the Penguins were cleaning out their lockers and wondering who will be back, and who wouldn't, Scott Burnside writes.