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BOSTON -- The last people on earth to go to for perspective after a barn burner such as the Chicago Blackhawks' 6-5 overtime win Wednesday night are the players. They haven't got a clue about just what happened to them. Oh, they know Brent Seab...

BOSTON -- If time and space are the currency of success for an offensive star, Patrick Kane is broke. Roughly 13 periods into the Stanley Cup finals between Kane's Chicago Blackhawks and the Boston Bruins, and the Hawks have managed just five goal...

The Bruins have knocked Patrick Kane off his game in the Stanley Cup finals, denying the Blackhawks winger room to maneuver, writes Scott Burnside.

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 -- 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...

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...

CHICAGO -- They have combined to play 1,733 regular season games and another 160 in the playoffs for eight different NHL franchises. That is a lot of road traveled between Michal Rozsival and Michal Handzus and yet only now do their respective jou...

CHICAGO -- This is the thin edge of the wedge. This is where the focus is the sharpest, the images the most defined. If the start of every NHL season represents a grand vista full of promise and the unknown -- maybe slightly out of focus becaus...

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.

The clash between the Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup finals will mean a lot for history buffs -- these two Original Six teams haven't met in the playoffs since the 1978 quarterfinals. But make no mistake, both teams are built...