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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...

Craig Custance writes how Dan Bylsma should be the top candidate to lead Team USA in the 2014 Olympics before addressing trade proposals, coaches on the hot seat and a new alternative to shootouts in his weekly mailbag.

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PITTSBURGH -- So, in the end, isn't that why we love sports? To see what is possible? Or more to the point, whether the seemingly impossible is possible? To see what the great can achieve especially when faced with long odds or when the expecta...

With Sidney Crosby likely not returning during the first round, the Penguins must find a way to counter the Lightning's offensive firepower.

Will the Kings hold onto a playoff spot in the West? How bad is the Eastern Conference race? Scott Burnside tells all in this week's Power Play.

We're at the midway point of this season, and we're sure of two things: New Jersey will win the Atlantic and another coach will be fired. Scott Burnside rants on these topics and more in this week's Power Play.

A longtime backup the perfect tonic in Tampa Bay? Thus is the case for Antero Niittymaki, whose pristine play between the pipes has the Lightning on a tear.

NEW YORK -- More than four years removed from the Sochi Olympic Games in 2014, the battle lines already have been drawn by one of the NHL's biggest stars regarding NHL participation. Two-time Hart Trophy winner Alex Ovechkin told ESPN.com during an ...

The NHL will continue to send teams to Europe to kick off its regular season, and the world's best players will meet in the 2011 World Cup of Hockey now that the league and players' association have reached a compromise, ESPN.com has learned.

With four teams in Europe to kick off the 2008-09 regular season this week it's possible that number could double next fall, the head of the National Hockey League's Players' Association, Paul Kelly, said Sunday.

Wayne Gretzky says he does not want to return as executive director for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. So, now what? Finding a home for The Great One is going to be one touchy task for Hockey Canada.

Ryan Malone has had to prove himself his entire career to show the hockey world he wasn't just a "daddy pick." Now, the Pittsburgh native is having the last laugh in his first trip to the Cup finals.

The Kings and the Ducks have been struggling since their trip to London to open the season. Is there any point to these trips for the league and the players? Does it fit into an overall Olympics concept that is likely going to end in 2010?

Scott Burnside previews the 2006-07 season for the Phoenix Coyotes.