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The Senators feel the first five minutes of Game 3 could seal their fate in the series against the Pittsburgh Penguins, Scott Burnside writes

He's missed all but five games this season due to injury, but the Senators hope Jason Spezza can provide the spark they need to take on the Penguins.

PITTSBURGH -- It's a bit hard to get your head around it, but the start of the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs is relatively foreign territory for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Ottawa Senators. That may explain the great collective exhalati...

Talk about a flair for the dramatic. The Boston Bruins, on the verge of blowing a 3-1 series lead against the plucky Toronto Maple Leafs, stormed back from a 4-1 deficit in Game 7 to tie the game in the waning moments of regulation and then win it 5-...

As is seemingly the case every season, the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs had something for everyone, Scott Burnside writes

PITTSBURGH -- You can talk about the tinkering with the line combinations, the introduction of a couple of energy guys to the lineup and the second-period explosion of offense, but the Pittsburgh Penguins' 4-0 victory in Game 5 -- and the restaking o...

PITTSBURGH -- Not to put too fine a point on it, but it's hard not to imagine that the Pittsburgh Penguins' Dan Bylsma has just made his most important decision as a head coach. A man who won a Stanley Cup after just a few months on the job in Jun...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Wild's goaltending situation appears to have gone from dramatic to dire in very short order. Josh Harding, diagnosed before this season with multiple sclerosis, provided inspirational play coming on at the start of...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- In a playoff year that has been dominated by goaltending drama, Chicago Blackhawks netminder Corey Crawford is the King of Calm. On Tuesday night alone the Montreal Canadiens lost starting goaltender Carey Price to injury and th...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- That Josh Harding chooses not to let the fact he has multiple sclerosis become a talking point in this playoff season is his prerogative. This is the time for discussion to be about pucks and saves and swings in momentum, not medic...

Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby has not recovered sufficiently from a broken jaw and will miss at least the opening game of Pittsburgh's Stanley Cup playoff quarterfinal series against the New York Islanders on Wednesday.

Scott Burnside: Pittsburgh Penguins' Marc-Andre Fleury doesn't live in the past.

Oh, hardly any storylines here. The Toronto Maple Leafs return to the playoffs for the first time since 2004 and find themselves in a clash with the Boston Bruins, whose trade of Phil Kessel to Toronto in September 2009 ultimately delivered Tyler Seg...

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...

In spite of the Chicago Blackhawks' status as runaway winners of the Western Conference and their place as Presidents' Trophy winners as top team in the NHL, the Western Conference is fraught with potential trap doors. The lone exception to the trap-...

The Penguins are more than Sidney Crosby and a dynamic offense, and that is just one of five reasons Scott Burnside cites for Pittsburgh being the favorite going into the playoffs.