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Craig Custance breaks down the tactics and tendencies of every 2013 Stanley Cup Playoff team with the help of rival players, coaches and scouts.

CHICAGO -- If it's possible to have a perfect press box storm, this might have been it. Not that a clash between two of the best teams in the Western Conference, both of whom have definite Stanley Cup plans, wouldn't provide enough drama on its ow...

Former Minnesota Wild player Andrew Brunette rejoined the team Wednesday as hockey operations adviser.

Sabres University is an opportunity for employees to listen to lectures given in more than 30 different areas of team operation, including ice making, public speaking, coaching strategy, scouting, marketing and fitness and diet, Scott Burnside writes.

TORONTO -- We haven't even sat down yet for lunch and his mind is already racing in a million directions. The Mad Professor is talking about his scouting trip to Toronto and 15 other things, and he has many innovative ideas as to how he wants the...

Newly hired Capitals head coach Adam Oates liked what he saw scouting Washington last year while working as an assistant with the New Jersey Devils.

Who are these guys? Scott Burnside has instant scouting reports on the Devils and Rangers.

So, after all the hype and departure of the big-name teams, we're down to the Kings and Coyotes. Just who are these guys, anyway? Pierre LeBrun tells us.

USA Hockey will for the first time showcase its top NHL draft-eligible players in what its calling an All-American Prospects Game to be played in Buffalo.

Getty Images NHL executives filled the Xcel Energy Center floor Friday night and Saturday morning. Getty Images The wife and daughters of late director of NHL's Central Scouting E.J. McGuire, who died of cancer this spring, opened the show...

Access all of ESPN Insider's 2011 Stanley Cup playoff coverage in one place, including scouting reports, expert predictions and player insights.

Gare Joyce remembers Central Scouting director E.J. McGuire and Florida Panthers scout Luke Williams.

Longtime scout and hockey coach EJ McGuire has died after a career in which he spent nearly four decades in the game. He was 58.

TORONTO -- James Neal had one heck of a scouting report on the Pittsburgh Penguins, so when he walked in last week he felt like he already knew everyone. "You watched them on HBO and see behind the scenes, they're a great group of guys and great a...

Sean Allen recommends watching a different kind of hockey this holiday season, as the World Junior Hockey Championships are prime scouting grounds for the fantasy stars of tomorrow.

With the playoffs underway, we asked some frequent foes of NHL stars how to get the better of their heralded adversaries, including Alex Ovechkin, The Sedins, Ryan Miller, Nicklas Lidstrom and Sidney Crosby.